{"id":89884,"date":"2019-04-24T10:43:13","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T17:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/marine-skin-dives-deeper-for-better-monitoring"},"modified":"2019-04-24T10:43:13","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T17:43:13","slug":"marine-skin-dives-deeper-for-better-monitoring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/marine-skin-dives-deeper-for-better-monitoring","title":{"rendered":"Marine Skin dives deeper for better monitoring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/marine-skin-dives-deeper-for-better-monitoring.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new and greatly improved version of an electronic tag, called Marine Skin, used for monitoring marine animals could revolutionize our ability to study sea life and its natural environment, say KAUST researchers.<\/p>\n<p>Marine Skin is a thin, flexible, lightweight polymer-based material with integrated electronics which can track an animal\u2019s movement and diving behavior and the health of the surrounding <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/marine+environment\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">marine environment<\/a>. Early versions of the sensors, reported previously, proved their worth when glued onto the swimming crab, Portunus pelagicus.<\/p>\n<p>The latest and much more robust version can operate at unprecedented depths and can also be attached to an animal using a noninvasive bracelet or jacket. This can, when necessary, avoid the need for any glues that might harm an animal\u2019s sensitive skin.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-04-marine-skin-deeper.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new and greatly improved version of an electronic tag, called Marine Skin, used for monitoring marine animals could revolutionize our ability to study sea life and its natural environment, say KAUST researchers. Marine Skin is a thin, flexible, lightweight polymer-based material with integrated electronics which can track an animal\u2019s movement and diving behavior and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1495,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}