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: Oceanography (OC), Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.), Graduate School of Engineering and Applied Science (GSEAS), Office of the Chief of Naval Operations (U.S.), Oceanography
• Format: Report
• Language: unknown
• Published: Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School 2010
• Subjects: SOSUS; Blue whale; Finback whale; Marine mammals; Cetacea; Toothed whales; Gulf of Alaska; Ner; Pacific; Fin whale; Marine Mammal Monitoring; toothed whales; Alaska
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10945/717

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...