About UsIn 2000, David Welch attended a conference where he recognized that recent developments in electronics driven by the cell phone revolution meant that it might be possible to finally address the extreme lack of information on the survival and movement of marine animals in the ocean. VEMCO (now a division of Amirix Systems), was a leader in the application of acoustic tracking technologies to biological questions. Capitalizing on the new advances flowing from the consumer electronics revolution, Vemco developed a revolutionary sensor technology that was low-cost, long-lived, and operated at acoustic frequencies that operate seamlessly in both freshwater and marine environments. From this realization, David came up with the concept of the Pacific Ocean Shelf Tracking Project (POST) as a permanent, large-scale, acoustic tracking array spanning the west coast of North America. David founded Kintama Research Corporation to do the engineering and operations work needed to create and operate the tracking array. Simple in concept, the low-cost array of sensors and tags must be precisely placed in an economically optimal geometry and programmed in such a way to allow long-term economical tracking over vast distances. Kintama now operates an array that spans half the Pacific continental shelf of North America and serves as the prototype of the newly-funded $160M global Ocean Tracking Network. Kintama offers cost-effective services to assist researchers tracking aquatic animals. We can help design, install, maintain, and harvest the data from arrays of permanently-installed acoustic receivers on the sea floor. Our services also include:
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Kintama Research Corporation 10-1850 Northfield Road Nanaimo, BC, Canada V9S 3B3 Tel: 250.729.2600; Fax: 250.729.2622 |
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