Sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) echolocation clicks recorded at three sites in the Gulf of Mexico from 2010-05-16 to 2017-07-18

• Main Author: Hildebrand, John A.
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Digital Commons @ University of South Florida 2019
• Subjects: marine mammals; passive acoustic monitoring; Sperm Whales; Physeter macrocephalus; High-frequency Acoustic Recording Packages (HARPs); inter-click-interval (ICI); inter-pulse-interval (IPI); estimated acoustic total length; Sperm whale
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/cimage_data/137; https://doi.org/10.7266/n7-qbmn-tq98; https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/context/cimage_data/article/1137/type/native/viewcontent/2324

This dataset contains detections of sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) echolocation clicks from three locations in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) during and following the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil spill (2010-2017). These detections are given by site and time bin, including the number of detections per time bin. Clicks were grouped into five-minute bins. For each bin containing clicks, the number of clicks, recording effort in bin, and description of population structure presence are given in three sex size classes based on the correlation of inter-click-interval (ICI), inter-pulse-interval (IPI) and estimated acoustic total length. Passive acoustic monitoring was conducted with High-frequency Acoustic Recording Packages (HARPs). These data were scanned for sperm whale clicks using a combination of computer algorithms and manual (analyst) scanning of the waveform and spectral data.