North Star Science and Tech LLC

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North Star Science and Technology, LLC Annual Grant Program 2010 Program Preamble: North Star Science and Technology, LLC was founded in 1998 and began operating in 1999. Its founders are researchers who helped to develop the very technology that we now provide to clients - satellite PTT technology. Most of North Star’s clients today are researchers themselves from all over the world. We at North Star recognize that satellite PTTs are very expensive and that the data they can provide is usually cannot be obtained via any other method. After being in business for 11 years now, we feel good about continuing to provide something back to the community we serve, the research community (i.e., YOU). In 2003, we launched our first annual grant program and provided 3 PTTs to each of two projects in S. America, one on Pink-footed Shearwaters and one on Blue-eyed Shags. The next year, we provided 3 PTTs to a raptor migration project in N. America and another 3 PTTs to an Andean Flamingo project in S. America. In 2005, we provided 4 PTTs for a project on Christmas Island Frigatebirds, 3 PTTs to a White-rumped Vulture project in Nepal, and 1 PTT to a Whooping Crane reintroduction project in the USA. In 2006, we provided 2 PTTs to a study of Long-billed Curlews in the western USA, 1 PTT to a Black-browed Albatross project in the Falklands Islands, 2 PTTs to the continuation of the Christmas Island Frigatebird project, and 3 PTTs to a project on wintering Siberian Cranes in China. In 2007, we provided 2 PTTs to track reintroduced Whooping Cranes in the USA, 4 PTTs to track Spectacled Petrels off Brazil, and 2 PTTs to track Blue Ducks in New Zealand. In 2008, we provided another 8 PTTs to our client community for free. To date, we have provided a total of 44 PTTs to the world’s research community, and we are continuing the program on a bi-annual basis. By the end of the 2010 grant program, we will have provided 52 PTTs with a total retail value of about $156,000. So the next time you make a buying decision for PTTs, ask yourself if you are supporting a company that is giving something back to the research community, or not. We can only hope that your buying decisions will be affected (to some small degree) by our generosity to the clients we serve. Even if your proposal does not win this year’s competition, contact us anyway and ask for all possible discounts. We offer several that are not published on our web site. This year, we are continuing our bi-annual program to provide an opportunity for researchers to acquire PTTs for free. We have decided to continue 3 major changes to our annual grant program from earlier years: (1) We will provide a total of 8 PTTs to the winners, rather than 6; and (2) We will keep the program open to researchers from around the world, rather than limiting it to the Americas; and (3) we will allow the winners to choose the model of PTT that they want to use from our entire line of non-GPS PTTs. This line includes solar PTTs as small as 9.5 grams, along with parrot tags.

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