Recordings from: Evaluation of a coastal acoustic buoy for cetacean detections, bearing accuracy, and exclusion zone monitoring ...

• Main Authors: Palmer, Kaitlin, Gillespie, Douglas, Turner, Jesse, Tabbutt, Sam, King, Paul, Tollit, Dom, Thompson, Jessica, Wood, Jason
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Dryad 2022
• Subjects: acoustic recordings; FOS: Environmental engineering; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.98sf7m0mn; https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.98sf7m0mn

1. There is strong socio-political support for offshore wind development in US territorial waters, and construction is planned off several east coast states. Some of the planned development sites coincide with important habitat for critically endangered North Atlantic right whales. Both exclusion zones and passive acoustic monitoring are important tools for managing interactions between marine mammals and human activities. Understanding where animals are with respect to exclusion zones is important to avoid costly construction delays while minimizing the potential for negative impacts. Impact piling from construction of hundreds of offshore wind turbines likely requires exclusion zones as large as 10 km. 2. We have developed a three-hydrophone passive acoustic monitoring system that provides bearing information along with marine mammal detections to allow for informed management decisions in real-time. Multiple units form a monitoring system designed to determine whether marine mammal calls originate from ... : Acoustic recordings were collected in accordance with the published work, "Evaluation of a coastal acoustic buoy for cetacean detections, bearing accuracy, and exclusion zone monitoring". ...