Should I stay or should I go, Yeah!!

Time to migrate !!

M'Pala field station, site of hornbill tagging

Hornbill with Uni KN GPS logger tag

Martin will participate in a Max-Planck – China Space Program conference

From the program: Earth-observing satellites with high-resolution instruments will improve our ability to understand and respond to climate change, and the biosphere could be observed in much greater detail. New satellite spectrometers will allow to monitor air quality on regional down to urban scales and to assess the impact of volcanoes on aviation and atmospheric chemistry. The combination of novel active and passive instruments will yield unprecedented details on cloud and aerosol properties, which currently constitute the largest source of uncertainties in our understanding and prediction of climate change. Revolutionary satellite techniques, like tagging animals with radio receivers and then tracking them from radio telescopes mounted in space, would generate powerful impact. Installing a global observation system that provides a direct link to life on the planet envisions exploiting mass animal behavior as a sensor, for example to predict catastrophes like earthquakes or tsunamis.