3S2 - Behavioral Response Studies of Cetaceans to Naval Sonar Signals in Norwegian Waters

• Main Author: Miller, Patrick
• Other Authors: SAINT ANDREWS UNIV (UNITED KINGDOM)
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Biological Oceanography; Acoustic Detection and Detectors; *BEHAVIOR; *CETACEA; BIOACOUSTICS; EXPOSURE(PHYSIOLOGY); NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN; SENSITIVITY; SONAR; UNDERWATER SOUND; WHALES; BOTTLENOSE WHALES; HUMPBACK WHALES; MINKE WHALES; The Ramp; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA573564; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA573564

One primary goal of this international cooperative research program is to investigate behavioral reactions and the sound exposures required to elicit them of three species of whales: bottlenose whales, minke whales, and humpback whales to Low Frequency Active Sonar (LFAS) signals. The results will b...