Evolution of iTAG
The iTag mission is to build a community focused on understanding the importance of movement to management and conservation of aquatic animals.
To meet this mission, we are building infrastructure, trust, and systems to benefit members and management. iTAG began in 2014 when scientists, vendors, and ocean observing representatives identified the following needs: (1) the capacity to exchange detection data across arrays; (2) consequent meetings to increase networking and knowledge; and (3) integrative telemetry research projects to demonstrate the benefit to management of understanding movement.
Founding members were: Dr. Lowerre-Barbieri (University of Florida/FWRI), Dr. Jay Rooker (Texas A&M, Galveston), Dr. Will Patterson (University of Florida), Dr. Behzad Mahmoudi (FWRI), and Dr. Clay Porch (NOAA/NMFS), working closely with Dr. Fred Whoriskey from the Ocean Tracking Network (OTN).
iTAG Milestones
Our Team
Dr. Susan Lowerre-Barbieri
Director
Research Faculty at University of Florida
Hayden Staley
Membership Coordinator
Fisheries biologist at Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute
Jessica Keller
Data Analyst
PhD student at University of Florida
Hannah Gottesman
iTAG coordinator
Graduate Assistant at Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute