Tag-a-long
DTAG stands for
What is digital acoustic recording tag
A term that means “to leave quickly” or “escape the situation”
What is "dip"?
Seattle is the birthplace of this famous grunge music band, known for hits like "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and fronted by Kurt Cobain.
What is Nirvana?
This building is home to the Biology advising office
What is Hitchcock Hall
In Kas and Briana’s 2023 paper, they write about this open source system that remotely detach individual sensors from wildlife tracking collars
What is SensorDrop
The company that sells the SPOT tag, a satellite tag that allows us to provide live penguin tracking on our website
What is Wildlife Computers
A term used to describe something that’s not just okay, but genuinely great or impressive.
What is "fire"?
This large Seattle park is home to the Joseph A. Witt Winter Garden and an extensive Camellia Collection.
Washington Park Arboretum
This building houses most of the Boersma Lab
What is the Physics Astronomy Auditorium
In Anna’s and Briana’s 2024 paper “Ship collision risk threatens whales across the world’s oceans,” these four whale species were used to create global distribution models.
blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus), fin whales (Balaenoptera physalus), humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae), and sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus)
The company that creates the acoustic collars we use on wild dogs
What is Vectronic Aerospace
A Gen Alpha expression meaning "it’s the truth" or "there’s no exaggeration," often used to emphasize how serious someone is about a statement.
What is "facts"?
This space in Seattle was the first permanent home for the Seattle Symphony Orchestra and is renowned for its acoustics, especially after a major renovation in the early 2000s.
What is Benaroya Hall?
This library is home to the Research Commons
What is the Allen Library
In Jenny’s “Males miss and females forgo,” her team made use of this software to plot spectrograms.
What is Matlab
The company is the North American operator of the Argos satellite constellation
What is Woods Hole Group
Gen Alpha uses this term to describe someone who is extremely skilled, often in a particular activity or area, and is considered the best at what they do.
What is "GOAT"?
This public market is one of the oldest continuously operated public farmers' markets in the United States
What is Pike Place Market (not Pike’s Place!)
Originally called the Washington State Museum, this museum traces its origins to a high school naturalist club formed in 1879.
What is the Burke Museum
In Eric’s, Ginger’s, and Dee’s 2024 paper “A fearful scourge to the penguin colonies,” what bird was observed predating adult Magellanic penguins?
What is the Southern giant petrel (Macronectes giganteus)
What is a Time-Depth Recorder
This phrase, often used by Gen Alpha, means "to not be lying" or "to be telling the truth," frequently used to emphasize the sincerity of a statement.
What is "no cap"?
The year of the Seattle Fire
What is 1889
The fountain that graces the northwest end of Rainier Vista Park
What is Drumheller Fountain
In Ginger’s, Pearl’s, and Dee’s 2024 paper “Foot darkening with age in Spheniscus penguins: applications and functions,” they described the pictured penguin foot using this category.
What is Mixed