Monitoring Cetaceans in the North Pacific: Analysis of Retrospective SOSUS Data and Acoustic Detection on the Northern Edge Range

• Main Author: Stafford, Kathleen
• Other Authors: WASHINGTON UNIV SEATTLE APPLIED PHYSICS LAB
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: Biology; Biological Oceanography; Acoustic Detection and Detectors; *WHALES; *ACOUSTIC DETECTION; SITES; ALASKA GULF; CETACEA; ACOUSTIC RECORDING SYSTEMS; GRAPHS; MONITORING; NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN; SOSUS(SOUND SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS); BLUE WHALES; FIN WHALES; NER(NORTHERN EDGE RANGE); MARINE MAMMALS; ACOUSTIC MONITORING; BALEEN WHALES; TOOTHED WHALES; ODONTOCETES; ASG(ACOUSTIC SEA GLIDERS); CART(COASTAL ACOUSTIC RELEASE TRANSPONDERS); Gulf of Alaska; Ner; Pacific; baleen whales; Fin whale; Marine Mammal Monitoring; toothed whales; Alaska
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA535368; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA535368

To comply with environmental laws, the U.S. Navy has increasingly relied on acoustic detection and tracking for marine mammal monitoring/mitigation. In the North Pacific, much of what is known about large whale seasonal occurrence comes from Sound Surveillance System (SOSUS) arrays. SOSUS provides b...