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: 2012
• Subjects: Biological Oceanography; Acoustics; *BIOACOUSTICS; *WHALES; ACOUSTIC DETECTION; ACOUSTIC SIGNALS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; MARINE BIOLOGICAL NOISE; SHALLOW WATER; BALEEN WHALES; MARINE MAMMALS; NOISE COMPENSATION; RIGHT WHALES; VOCALIZATIONS; baleen whales
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA573678; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA573678

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 manmade sounds on the use of sound by marine mammals. The original document contains color images.