Credit: Photo by: Kayla Gardner, ©Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Bioadhesive Interface for Marine Sensors (BIMS) can be attached to marine animals in less than 20 seconds. Traditional tagging methods could take up to ten minutes, causing stress to animals, making these a better alternative. Here, Dr. Pedro Alfono places a tagged squid back in the water in the Azores after using a traditional suture tag.