Soundscapes of the Southern Ocean: Passive Acoustic Monitoring in the Weddell Sea

• Main Authors: Menze, Sebastian, Kindermann, Lars, van Opzeeland, Ilse, Rettig, Stefanie, Bombosch, Annette, Zitterbart, Daniel, Boebel, Olaf
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: Antarc*; Antarctic; Balaenoptera musculus; Balaenoptera physalus; Blue whale; Crabeater Seal; Fin whale; Hydrurga leptonyx; Leopard Seal; Polarforschung; Sea ice; Southern Ocean; Weddell Sea
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/32687/; https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/32687/1/Soundscapes-of-the-southern-ocean.pdf; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.41248; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.41248.d001

The Southern Ocean provides an important habitat for marine mammals, both residential and migratory, yet long term studies of their habitat usage are hampered by the region’s seasonal inaccessibility. To overcome this problem, two autonomous underwater passive acoustic recorders were deployed in the...