Assessment Of Acoustic Adaptations For Noise Compensation In Marine Mammals

• Main Author: Parks, Susan E
• Other Authors: PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIV STATE COLLEGE APPLIED RESEARCH LAB
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: Biological Oceanography; Physical and Dynamic Oceanography; Marine Engineering; Acoustic Detection and Detectors; Miscellaneous Detection and Detectors; Naval Surface Warfare; Undersea and Antisubmarine Warfare; *ADAPTATION; *AQUATIC ANIMALS; *COMPENSATION; *MARINE BIOLOGICAL NOISE; *UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS; COASTAL REGIONS; ENERGY; ENVIRONMENTS; HYPOTHESES; MAMMALS; MANMADE; MARINE BIOLOGY; NOISE; NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN; OCEAN ENVIRONMENTS; OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA; SHALLOW WATER; SOUND TRANSMISSION; TEST METHODS; TRANSMISSION LOSS; WAVE PROPAGATION; WHALES; *BALEEN WHALES; *RIGHT WHALES; *NOISE COMPENSATION; EUBALAENA GLACIALIS; DTAG(DIGITAL ARCHIVE TAGS); EUBALAENA AUSTRALIS; Water Sound; baleen whales; Eubalaena glacialis; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA531205; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA531205

The proposed research will address the fundamental theoretical issue of noise compensation mechanisms in the vocal communication of marine mammals. Noise compensation mechanisms are important for improving signal transmission with an energy limited source. A better understanding of marine mammal noise compensation mechanisms can potentially provide effective means of improving signal transmission in a noisy marine environment and for assessing the impact of man-made sounds on the use of sound by marine mammals.