Southern California 2011 Behavioral Response Study: Marine Mammal Monitoring Support

• Main Authors: Kyburg, Christopher, Carlson, Rowena
• Other Authors: SPACE AND NAVAL WARFARE SYSTEMS CENTER PACIFIC SAN DIEGO CA
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: Biology; Electrical and Electronic Equipment; Computer Programming and Software; *COMPUTER PROGRAMS; *GROUP DYNAMICS; *MAPPING; *MONITORING; *RESPONSE(BIOLOGY); *WHALES; ANTENNAS; CALIFORNIA; IDENTIFICATION; SAMPLING; SEA TESTING; SITUATIONAL AWARENESS; VERY HIGH FREQUENCY; *WHALE IDENTIFICATION LOGGING AND DISPLAY COMPUTER PROGRAMS; WHALE TAGGING; GROUP BEHAVIORAL SAMPLING; Pacific; Marine Mammal Monitoring
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA601058; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA601058

The Behavioral Response Studies are intended to collect information that will enable the Navy to minimize negative impact on marine mammals related to sonar and other sources of anthropogenic sound in the marine environment from Navy training operations. The Whale Identification, Logging, and Display (WILD) software is intended to be a solution that provides the situational awareness needed to conduct controlled exposure experiments safely while thoroughly documenting the events and context in which they occur. It also must support typical marine mammal density survey operations. The long-term goals for WILD system upgrades and modifications have been based on recommendations made from its use on the MED 09 and SOCAL 10 sea trials. WILD must be a flexible, easy to use software solution that records, integrates, and displays visual and acoustic observations of marine mammals, research vessels, sonobuoy locations, and other contextual information relevant to the experiments and their analysis. WILD also must support typical survey, focal follow, and mitigation operations. WILD must have little or no software licensing costs to the user community. The objective of the SSC Pacific support for SOCAL 11 included three tasks: Task 1 -- Participation in planning meetings, Task 2 -- WILD logger enhancements, Task 3 -- WILD Mapper configuration and enhancements, Task 4 -- Sea Trial support, Task 5 -- Post cruise analysis and reporting, and Task 6 -- Conference presentations and WILD demonstrations.