Goal: To provide the monitoring necessary prior to a naval training event, the Submarine Commander’s Course exercise in February 2012, to adhere to the guidelines of the U.S. Navy’s Integrated Comprehensive Monitoring Program Time Period: January...
Goal: To assess the abundance, distribution and habitat of marine mammals in the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) around Palmyra Atoll and in the waters between Oahu and Palmyra. Time Period: 2011-2012 Our Role: To provide research...
Goal: To monitoring delphinids during mid- and deep-water net trawls in order to mitigate accidental captures or injuries to marine mammals. Our Role: To use a towed hydrophone array system to monitor dolphins in...
Goal: To detect, locate and track vocalizing minke whales in the North Pacific Islands to better understand their acoustic ecology and behaviors. Our Role:To design and conduct vessel-based acoustic line-transect surveys of minke whales and...
Goal: To help the U.S. Navy in the first systematic line-transect visual and acoustic survey of the waters around the Northern Mariana Islands and Guam, to determine population density estimates for marine mammals and sea...
Goal: To gather acoustic data as part of the Joint Monitoring Program to monitor the effects of oil production and exploration on marine mammals Our Role: To conduct passive acoustic surveys using a towed hydrophone array...
Goal: To develop and apply bio-statistical methods for assessing the effects of sonar on marine mammal acoustic behaviors. Time Period: 2009-2013 Our Role: To process recordings of delphinid vocalizations (whistles) and sonar to extract variables that will...
Goal: To assess the distribution, abundance and occurrence of marine mammals in the U.S. Navy’s temporary maritime activities area (TMAA) in the Gulf of Alaska. Time Period: 2013 Our Role: Provide the equipment and research personnel to...
Goal: to evaluate the effects of recording depth, animal behavior and sound propagation characteristics of the water column on whistles and clicks produced by delphinids Time Period: May 2015 – September 2016 Our Role: to collect field...
Goal: To conduct a combined visual and acoustic marine mammal abundance line transect survey in the waters of the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) off the southeast coast of the continental United States.Time Period: 2013 Our...