News:
- WCAI Cape and Islands NPR Station Broadcast: "How Acoustic Monitoring Could Help Protect Cod Stocks"
- Cape Cod Times and South Coast Today "The call of the cod"/ "Cod research could revive species"
- NEFSC Science Spotlight: Cod "Acoustic Monitoring of Atlantic Cod Reveals Clues to Spawning Behavior"
- NEFSC Newsroom: Outreach and Education "NOAA Scientists Bring Marine Mammal Research to Young Scientists"
- New York Times: "A Rising Tide of Noise Is Now Easy to See"
- The Take Away with Dr. Leila Hatch: "Mapping Noise Pollution to Save Marine Life"
- Wicked Local: "NOAA scientist to discuss ocean noise"
- NOAA News: "Underwater noise decreases whale communications in Stellwagen Bank sanctuary"
- Scientific American: "Noise Reduces Ocean Habitat for Whales [video]"
- National Geographic: "Drifting in Static: A rising tide of man-made noise is disrupting the lives of marine mammals"
- WCAI Cape and Islands NPR Station Broadcast: Mindy Todd talks with Denise Risch on "Ocean Noise a Threat to Marine Mammals"
- The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is developing tools to map the contribution of human sound sources to underwater ocean noise in U.S. waters. Follow the progress of the
NOAA Cetacean & Sound Mapping working group here.
New Publication:
Changes in Humpback Whale Song Occurrence in Response to an Acoustic Source 200 km Away
The effect of underwater anthropogenic sound on marine mammals is of increasing concern. Here we show that humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) song in the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary (SBNMS) was reduced, concurrent with transmissions of an Ocean Acoustic Waveguide Remote Sensing (OAWRS) experiment approximately 200 km away. We detected the OAWRS experiment in SBNMS during an 11 day period in autumn 2006. We compared the occurrence of song for 11 days before, during and after the experiment with song over the same 33 calendar days in two later years. Using a quasi-Poisson generalized linear model (GLM), we demonstrate a significant difference in the number of minutes with detected song between periods and years. The lack of humpback whale song during the OAWRS experiment was the most substantial signal in the data. Our findings demonstrate the greatest published distance over which anthropogenic sound has been shown to affect vocalizing baleen whales, and the first time that active acoustic fisheries technology has been shown to have this effect. The suitability of Ocean Acoustic Waveguide Remote Sensing technology for in-situ, long term monitoring of marine ecosystems should be considered, bearing in mind its possible effects on non-target species, in particular protected species.
For press coverage and more information:
http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA475434
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/01/underwater-noise-disturbs-whales-120-miles-away/
http://aeinews.org/archives/1757
http://www.gloucestertimes.com/local/x158345158/Sonar-style-cod-study-gains-State-House-support
http://www.gloucestertimes.com/local/x1456422913/Report-Sonar-fish-study-may-affect-whales
Also:
- A word from Dr. Sofie Van Parijs: The Voice of the North Atlantic right whale.
- The NEFSC Sounds of the Sea interactive exhibit is up and running. Come and check it out at the
Woods Hole Science Aquarium in Woods Hole, MA.
Read more about it in the NOAA Newsroom.
- To listen and learn about marine animal sounds, click here.
- Another great interactive site on Marine Mammal Sounds can be found here: Voices in the Sea.
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