Equipment loaner program

Equipment loaner program

To support aquatic animal tracking worldwide and help leverage valuable research funding, the Ocean Tracking Network (OTN) offers equipment loans.

OTN maintains a pool of Innovasea Vemco acoustic receiver units available for loan by researchers within academia, government, non-profits, and industry. This equipment enables aquatic telemetry research studies around the world, and supports the expansion of OTN’s global community of users.

Equipment available for loan includes Innovasea Vemco VR2W, VR2AR, VR2Tx, VR2AR-X receivers and Ascent releases. OTN has a limited number of receivers that have been updated to Open Protocol. Loans are issued based on equipment availability and following a successful application and review.

Criteria for equipment loans

Applications will be evaluated based on:

• The scientific and technical merit of the proposal

• The relevance of the proposal to advancing OTN’s scientific and strategic goals and objectives

• How the project is advancing, or could advance, principles of equity, diversity, inclusion and accessibility within the field of research

• The potential for the deployment to foster connectivity with other telemetry researchers in the region, and to assist with growing the collaborative global network

• If requesting Open Protocol receivers, a rationale for why they are needed