Wildlife Computers

08/27/2026

Looking for a career where your work helps protect wildlife around the world?

Wildlife Computers is hiring an Order Processing Specialist in Redmond, WA. In this role, you'll help ensure our technology reaches researchers studying whales, sharks, sea turtles, seals, and other wildlife around the globe.

From processing orders and coordinating shipments to supporting customers and maintaining accurate records, you'll play a critical role in helping conservation science happen.

If you're organized, detail-oriented, and enjoy keeping things running smoothly, we'd love to hear from you.

Learn more and apply today:

You’ll play an essential role in moving orders from quote to shipment—supporting accurate billing, documentation, and communication across the business.

08/17/2026

08/13/2026

A study led by researchers from OCEARCH and collaborating institutions found that western North Atlantic white sharks regularly use the Gulf of Mexico as an important overwintering habitat. Tracking data from 92 sharks showed that 57 individuals, representing every life stage from young-of-the-year to adults, migrated into the Gulf and Straits of Florida during the winter months.

The study relied on a combination of satellite-linked SPOT tags, MiniPAT pop-up archival tags, and acoustic transmitters. Wildlife Computers SPOT and MiniPAT technology helped researchers uncover previously unknown migration patterns, identify habitat hotspots such as Pulley Ridge off southwest Florida, and document remarkable long-distance movements spanning Atlantic Canada, the eastern Gulf, Mexico, and Cuba.

These findings improve our understanding of white shark ecology and provide critical information to support science-based conservation of this vulnerable apex predator.

Long-term monitoring of white sharks is critical to understanding the movement patterns of the western North Atlantic population. Satellite and acoustic ta

07/28/2026

07/27/2026

Introducing the New MiniPAT-440: Built for Speed, Designed to Stay Attached

The new MiniPAT-440 joins the Wildlife Computers tag family with a streamlined, reduced-drag profile engineered to help improve tag retention on some of the ocean’s most active species.

• Optimized for highly active, fast-swimming animals
• Reduced-drag design to support challenging deployments
• Records depth, temperature, light, and movement data
• Transmits summarized results via the Argos satellite system after release
• Recovered tags provide access to the complete archived dataset

Whether you're studying tuna, billfish, pelagic sharks, or other highly mobile marine species, the MiniPAT-440 gives researchers another powerful option for matching the right tag to the right study.

Learn More: https://wildlifecomputers.com/blog/introducing-the-new-minipat-440-built-for-speed-designed-to-stay-attached/

07/20/2026

07/08/2026

We have been tracking the movements of a pantropical spotted dolphin that we tagged off Kona June 2nd. The tag used is a Wildlife Computers finmount SPLASH tag that also provides dive data, and so far have almost 20 days of dive data, more than we’ve ever been able to collect this species. This map shows movements of this individual since tagging, showing that while it has spent most of its time along the island slope it has made one offshore excursion up to the slopes of Maui Nui and also swung offshore and visited a couple of the Geologists Seamounts west of Kona.

This individual was tagged during a collaborative field effort with the Sarasota Dolphin Research Program.

Want to learn more about spotted dolphins in Hawaiian waters? NOAA Fisheries recognizes three different island-associated populations of pantropical spotted dolphins in the main Hawaiian Islands, including a Hawai‘i Island stock, and this individual is providing new information on stock boundaries and overlap with the offshore population. Check out https://cascadiaresearch.org/hawaii-species/pantropical-spotted-dolphins-hawaii/ for more information on our work with this species.

07/08/2026

Migrating sea turtles can cross thousands of kilometers of open ocean, yet new research shows their “map” of the sea is surprisingly coarse—they often travel hundreds of extra kilometers before finding small island targets.

To uncover this hidden part of turtle navigation, scientists needed tags that could do more than just track location. The study relied on advanced SCOUT NAV satellite tags from Wildlife Computers, which combine high resolution movement data with state of the art environmental sensing to reveal how turtles reorient and search in the open ocean.

By powering this kind of cutting edge research, Wildlife Computers is helping scientists answer questions that have puzzled biologists since Darwin’s time—and setting the standard for marine telemetry technology worldwide.

Records of compass headings show that migrating green turtles only occasionally reorient during ocean crossings.

06/23/2026

What do young hawksbill turtles do all day—and how do they use the ocean as they grow?

A study recently published in Marine Ecology Progress Series tracked 19 immature, critically endangered hawksbill turtles around Réunion Island using Wildlife Computers SPLASH tags with Fastloc® GPS—and the results are fascinating.

Here’s what researchers found:
• They’re homebodies…mostly—Juvenile hawksbills stick to surprisingly small home ranges (often