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Accurately forecasting hurricanes has improved over the past few decades through the use of satellites,

NOAA's airborne hurricane hunters and numerical weather prediction models. But with warming waters

and the potential for an increase in major hurricanes, every bit of data helps. That's where sharks and their dorsal fins might come in.

Hello, I'm Dana Taylor, and this is a special episode of USA Today's The Excert.

Researchers are studying sharks to see if they can gather and transmit useful data regarding

ocean temperatures. Could sharks long feared be poised for an image makeover? Here

to dive into the deep end on that is Aaron Carlyle, a University of Delaware marine ecologist,

who is leading the initiative to tap sharks to aid in predicting hurricanes. Thanks for joining

me, Aaron. Thank you for having me. What led to your research on potentially tapping sharks as roving hurricane scouts?

Why did this seem feasible?

So I'm not the first person to think of this.

This idea of using animals as ocean sensors as goes back maybe 10, 15 years, and they've

been used on elephant seals and sea

turtles and various air breathing animals. And so the general idea is you put these devices on

these animals, the animals swim around the ocean doing their normal thing, and the whole time

they're collecting data that whenever they come to the surface gets transmitted to orbiting satellites.

What we're working on is trying to

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