Next Generation Animal Tracking Ideation Challenge

Deadline: 2018-11-08
Award: $30,000
Open to: 18 and older*

Understanding how and why animals move through and between resource-rich habitats can help us craft successful management plans to recover and maintain their populations.

In the ocean, we seldom know these basic behaviors which are a requirement for their survival. In order to accomplish this, we must tag and track animals to reveal their behaviors, movement paths, and important life-history locations--like where they breed and feed--to better mitigate human impacts.

Simply put, protecting them requires an understanding of where they go and what they do when they go to a particular place.

This challenge is seeking ideas and concepts that incorporate SmallSat/CubeSat technology along with other space, stratosphere, land, and/or water surface systems to improve upon the current system of data reception for tracking animal position and path movement.