Publications by Northeast Passive Acoustics Branch Staff

We are migrating to the NEFSC publications database. Our publications can also be found in the NOAA Institutional Repository. Here is a list of selected publications related to our work.

Journal Articles

2024

Delarue, J.J-Y., Moors-Murphy, H.B., Kowarski, K.A., Maxner, E.E., Davis, G.E., Stanistreet, J.E., and Martin, S.B. 2024. Acoustic occurrence of beaked whales off eastern Canada, 2015-2017. Endangered Species Research, 53:439-466.

Roberts, J.J., Yack, T.M., Fujioka, E., Halpin, P.N., Baumgartner, M.F., Boisseau, O., Chavez-Rosales, S., Cole, T.V., Cotter, M.P., Davis, G.E., DiGiovanni Jr., R.A., Ganley, L.C., Garrison, L.P., Good, C.P., Gowan, T.A., Jackson, K.A., Kenney, R.D., Khan, C.B., Knowlton, A.R., Kraus, S.D., Lockhart, G.G., Lomac-MacNair, K.S., Mayo, C.A., McKenna, B.E., McLellan, W.A., Nowacek, D.P., O'Brien, O., Pabst, D.A., Palka, D.L., Patterson, E.M., Pendleton, D.E., Quintana-Rizzo, E., Record, N.R., Redfern, J.V., Rickard, M.E., White, M., Whitt, A.D., and Zoidis, A.M. 2024. North Atlantic right whale density surface model for the US Atlantic evaluated with passive acoustic monitoring. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 732:167-192.

McKenna, M.F., Rowell, T.J., Margolina, T., Baumann-Pickering, S., Solsona-Berga, A., Adams, J.D., Joseph, K., Kim, E.B., Kok, A.C.M., Kügler, A., Lammers, M.O., Merkens, K., Peavy Reeves, L., Southall, B.L., Stimpert, A.K., Barkowski, J., Thompson, M.A., Van Parijs, S., Wall, C.C., Zang, E.J., and Hatch, L.T. (2024). Understanding vessel noise across a network of marine protected areas. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 196(4):369.

Kather, V., Seipel, F., Berges, B., Davis, G. , Gibson, C., Harvey, M., Henry, L., Stevenson, A., and Risch, D. 2024. Development of a machine learning detector for North Atlantic humpback whale song. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 155(3).

Westell, A., Rowell, T.J., Posdaljian, N., Solsona-Berga, A., Van Parijs, S.M. , and DeAngelis, A.I.. 2024. Acoustic presence and demographics of sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) off southern New England and near a US offshore wind energy area. ICES Journal of Marine Science, fsae012.

Rankin, S., Sakai, T., Archer, F.I., Barlow, J., Cholewiak, D., DeAngelis, A.I., McCullough, J.L.K., Oleson, E.M., Simonis, A.E., Soldevilla, M., and Trickey, J.S. 2024. Open-source machine learning BANTER acoustic classification of beaked whale echolocation pulses. Ecological Informatics, 80.

2023

Davis, G.E., Tennant, S., and Van Parijs, S.M. 2023. Upcalling behaviour and patterns in North Atlantic right whales, implications for monitoring protocols during wind energy development. ICES Journal of Marine Science, fsad174.

Holdman, A.K., Tregenza, N., Van Parijs, S.M., and DeAngelis, A.I. 2023. Acoustic ecology of harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) between two U.S. offshore wind energy areas. ICES Journal of Marine Science, fsad150.

Van Parijs, S.M., DeAngelis, A.I., Aldrich, T., Gordon, R., Holdman, A., McCordic, J.A., Mouy, X., Rowell, T.J., Tennant, S., Westell, A., and Davis, G.E. 2023.Establishing baselines for predicting change in ambient sound metrics, marine mammal, and vessel occurrence within a US offshore wind energy area. ICES Journal of Marine Science, fsad148.

Sigourney, D.B., DeAngelis, A., Cholewiak, D., and Palka, D. 2023. Combining passive acoustic data from a towed hydrophone array with visual line transect data to estimate abundance and availability bias of sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus). PeerJ 11:e15850.

Kanes, K.S.J., Dosso, S.E., Lado Insua, T.L., Mouy, X., and Bateman, A. 2023. Seasonal and diel patterns in Pacific white-sided dolphin (Lagenorhynchus obliquidens) pulsed calls near Barkley Canyon. Marine Mammal Science, 1–16.

Mouy, X., Austin, M., Wladichuk, J., Morrison, C. and LeBlond, W.T. 2023. Adaptive Call Design to Escape Masking While Preserving Complex Social Functions of Calls in Killer Whales. In: The Effects of Noise on Aquatic Life. Popper, A.N., Sisneros, J., Hawkins, A.D., Thomsen, F. (eds.), Springer, Cham.

Ballance, L.T., Pitman, R.L., Barlow, J., Pusser, T., DeAngelis, A.I. , Hayslip, C., Irvine, L., Steel, D., Baker, C.S., Gillies, D., Baumann-Pickering, S., Trickey, J.S., and Gisborne B. 2023. Acoustic recordings, biological observations, and genetic identification of a rare(?) beaked whale in the North Pacific: Mesoplodon carlhubbsi. Marine Mammal Science: 1-20.

Transue, L., Monczak, A., Tribble, C., Marian, A., Fair, P., Ballenger, J., Balmer, B. and Montie, E.W. 2023. The Biological and Anthropogenic Soundscape of an Urbanized Port–the Charleston Harbor Estuary, South Carolina, USA. PLoS ONE 18:4, p.e0283848.

Mouy, X., Black, M., Cox, K., Qualley, J., Dosso, S., and Juanes, F. 2023. Identification of fish sounds in the wild using a set of portable audio-video arrays. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 14.

Diogou, N., Halliday, W. D., Dosso, S. E., Mouy, X., Niemi, A., and Insley, S. J. 2023. Bowhead whale year-round acoustic presence and habitat associations in the Amundsen Gulf, Western Canadian Arctic, 2018–2019. Progress in Oceanography 213, 103004.

Harrison, J., Ferguson, M. C., New, L., Cleary, J., Curtice, C., DeLand, S., Fujioka, E., Halpin, P. N., Tyson Moore, R. B., and Van Parijs, S. M. 2023. Biologically Important Areas II for cetaceans within U.S. and adjacent waters - Updates and the application of a new scoring system. Frontiers in Marine Science 10:1081893.

Van Hoeck, R. V. Rowell, T. J., Dean, M. J., Rice, A. N., and Van Parijs, S. 2023. Comparing Atlantic Cod Temporal Spawning Dynamics across a Biogeographic Boundary: Insights from Passive Acoustic Monitoring. Marine and Coastal Fisheries: Dynamics, Management, and Ecosystem Science 15:e10226.

Wilder, J., Davis, G., DeAngelis, A., Van Parijs, S., and Baumgartner, M. 2023. Low-Frequency Detection and Classification System (LFDCS) Reference Guide. NOAA Technical Memorandum NOAA NMFS-NE-295: 137 p.

2022

DeAngelis A. I., Van Parijs, S. M., Barkowski, J., Baumann-Pickering, S., Burger, K., Davis, G. E., Joseph, J., Kok, A. C. M., Kügler, A., Lammers, M., Margolina, T., Pegg, N., Rice, A., Rowell, T. J., Ryan, J. P., Stokoe, A., Zang, E., and Hatch, L. 2022. Exploring marine mammal presence across seven US national marine sanctuaries. Frontiers in Remote Sensing 3:970401.

Westell, A., Sakai, T., Valtierra, R., Van Parijs, S. M., Cholewiak, D., and DeAngelis, A. 2022. Sperm whale acoustic abundance and dive behaviour in the western North Atlantic. Scientific Reports 12:16821.

DeAngelis, A. I., Barlow, J., Gillies, D., and Ballance, L. T. 2022. Echolocation depths and acoustic foraging behavior of Baird's beaked whales (Berardius bairdii) based on towed hydrophone recordings. Marine Mammal Science: 12958.

Delarue, J. J.-Y., Moors-Murphy, H. B., Kowarski, K. A., Davis, G. E., Urazghildiiev, I. R., and Martin, S. B. 2022. Acoustic occurrence of baleen whales, particularly blue, fin, and humpback whales, off eastern Canada, 2015-2017. Endangered Species Research 47: 265-289.

Stanistreet, J. E., Beslin, W. A. M., Kowarski, K., Martin, S. B., Westell, A., and Moors-Murphy, H. B. 2022. Changes in the acoustic activity of beaked whales and sperm whales recorded during a naval training exercise off eastern Canada. Scientific Reports 12: 1973.

2021

Haver, S. M., Adams, J. D., Hatch, L. T., Van Parijs, S. M., Dziak, R. P., Haxel, J., Heppell, S. A., McKenna, M. F., Mellinger, D.K., and Gedamke, J. 2021. Large Vessel Activity and Low-Frequency Underwater Sound Benchmarks in United States Waters. Frontiers in Marine Science 8:669528. 

Van Parijs, S. M., Baker, K., Carduner, J., Daly, J., Davis, G. E., Esch, C., Guan, S., Scholik-Schlomer, A., Sisson, N. B., and Staaterman, E. 2021. NOAA and BOEM Minimum Recommendations for Use of Passive Acoustic Listening Systems in Offshore Wind Energy Development Monitoring and Mitigation Programs. Frontiers in Marine Science 8:760840.

Pegg, N., Roca, I. T., Cholewiak, D., Davis, G. E., and Van Parijs, S. M. 2021. Evaluating the Efficacy of Acoustic Metrics for Understanding Baleen Whale Presence in the Western North Atlantic Ocean. Frontiers in Marine Science 8:749802. 

McKenna, M. F., Baumann-Pickering, S., Kok, A. C. M., Oestreich, W. K., Adams, J. D., Barkowski, J., Fristrup, K. M., Goldbogen, J. A., Joseph, J., Kim, E. B., Kügler, A., Lammers, M. O., Margolina, T., Peavey Reeves, L. E., Rowell, T. J., Stanley J. A., Stimpert, A. K., Zang, E. J., Southall, B. L., Wall, C. C., Van Parijs, S., and Hatch, L. T. 2021. Advancing the Interpretation of Shallow Water Marine Soundscapes. Frontiers in Marine Science 8:719258.

Stanley, J. A., Van Parijs, S. M., Davis, G. E., Sullivan, M., and Hatch, L. T. 2021. Monitoring spatial and temporal soundscape features within ecologically significant US National Marine Sanctuaries. Ecological Applications, e02439.

McCordic, J. A., DeAngelis, A. I., Kline, L. R., McBride, C., Rodgers, G. G., Rowell, T. J., Smith, J., Stanley, J. A., Stokoe, A., and Van Parijs, S. M. 2021. Biological Sound Sources Drive Soundscape Characteristics of Two Australian Marine Parks. Frontiers in Marine Science 8: 669412.

Ramírez-Valdez, A., Rowell, T. J., Dale, K. E., Craig, M. T., Allen, L. G., Villaseñor-Derbez, J. C., Cisneros-Montemayor, A. M., Hernández-Velasco, A., Torre, J., Hofmeister, J., and Erisman, B. E. 2021. Asymmetry across international borders: Research, fishery and management trends and economic value of the giant sea bass (Stereolepis gigas). Fish and Fisheries, 00:1-20.

Baumgartner, M. F., Ball, K., Partan, J., Pelletier, L., Bonnell, J., Hotchkin, C., Corkeron, P. J., and Van Parijs, S. M. 2021. Near real-time detection of low-frequency baleen whale calls from an autonomous surface vehicle: Implementation, evaluation, and remaining challenges. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 149:2950.

Weiss, S. G., Cholewiak, D., Frasier, K. E., Trickey, J. S., Baumann-Pickering, S., Hildebrand, J. A., and Van Parijs, S. M. 2021. Monitoring the acoustic ecology of the shelf break of Georges Bank, Northwestern Atlantic Ocean: New approaches to visualizing complex acoustic data. Marine Policy 130:104570.

Goulette, G. S., Hawkes, J. P., Kocik, J. F., Manning, J. P., Matzen, E., Van Parijs, S.,  Pettigrew, N., Wallinga, J., Zydlewski, G. B., and Ames, C. 2021. Opportunistic Acoustic Telemetry Platforms: An Update on the Northeast Fisheries Science Center’s Collaborative Monitoring Program in the Gulf of Maine, 2005-2018. NOAA Tech Memo NMFS NE. 265; 21 p.

Kendall, M. S., Williams, B. L., Winship, A. J., Carson, M., Grissom, K., Rowell, T. J., Stanley, J., and Roberson, K. W. 2021. Winds, waves, warm waters, weekdays, and which ways boats are counted influence predicted visitor use at an offshore fishing destination. Fisheries Research 237: 105879.

2020

Mooney T. A., Di Iorio, L., Lammers, M., Tzu-Hao, L., Nedelec, S. L., Parsons, M., Radford, C., Urban, E., and Stanley, J. 2020. Listening forward: approaching marine biodiversity assessments using acoustic methods. Royal Society Open Science 7: 7201287

Haver, S. M., Rand, Z., Hatch, L. T., Lipski, D., Dziak, R. P., Gedamke, J., Haxel, J., Heppell, S. A., Jahncke, J., McKenna, M. F., Mellinger, D. K., Oestreich, W. K., Roche, L., Ryan, J., and Van Parijs, S. M. 2020. Seasonal trends and primary contributors to the low-frequency soundscape of the Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 148(2): 845.

Kline, L. R., DeAngelis, A. I., McBride, C., Rodgers, G. G., Rowell, T. J., Smith, J., Stanley, J. A., Read, A. D., and Van Parijs, S. M. 2020. Sleuthing with sound: Understanding vessel activity in marine protected areas using passive acoustic monitoring. Marine Policy 120: 104138.

Davis, G. E., Baumgartner M. F., Corkeron, P. J., Bell, J., Berchok, C., Bonnell, J.M., Bort Thornton, J., Brault, S., Buchanan, G. A., Cholewiak, D. M., Clark, C. W., Delarue, J., Hatch, L. T., Klinck, H., Kraus, S. D., Martin, B., Mellinger, D. K., Moors‐Murphy, H., Nieukirk, S., Nowacek, D. P., Parks, S. E., Parry, D., Pegg, N., Read, A. J., Rice, A. N., Risch, D., Scott, A., Soldevilla, M. S., Stafford, K. M., Stanistreet, J. E., Summers, E., Todd, S., and Van Parijs, S. M. 2020. Exploring movement patterns and changing distributions of baleen whales in the western North Atlantic using a decade of passive acoustic data. Global Change Biology 26(9): 4812-4840.

Stanley, J. A., Caiger, P. E., Phelan, B., Shelledy, K., Mooney, T. A., and Van Parijs, S. M. 2020. Ontogenetic variation in the auditory sensitivity of black sea bass (Centropristis striata) and the implications of anthropogenic sound on behavior and communication. Journal of Experimental Biology 223: jeb219683.

Li, P., Liu, X., Palmer, K., Fleishman, E., Gillespie, D. M., Nosal, E. M., Shiu, Y., Klinck, H., Cholewiak, D., Helble, T., and Roch, M. 2020. Learning deep models from synthetic data for extracting dolphin whistle contours. In International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN). IEEE Computer Society.

Baumgartner, M. F., Bonnell, J., Corkeron, P. J., Van Parijs, S. M., Hotchkin, C, Hodges, B. A., Bort Thornton, J., Mensi, B. L., and Bruner, S. M. 2020. Slocum gliders provide accurate near real-time estimates of baleen whale presence from human-reviewed passive acoustic detection information. Frontiers in Marine Science 7: 100.

Caiger, P. E., Dean, M. J., DeAngelis, A. I., Hatch, L. T., Rice, A. N., Stanley, J. A., Tholke, C., Zemeckis, D. R., and Van Parijs, S. M. 2020. A decade of monitoring Atlantic cod Gadus morhua spawning aggregations in Massachusetts Bay using passive acoustics. Marine Ecological Progress Series 635: 89-103.

Shiu, Y., Palmer, K. J., Roch, M. A., Fleishman, E., Liu, X., Nosal, E., Helble, T., Cholewiak, D., Gillespie, D., and Klinck, H. 2020. Deep neural networks for automated detection of marine mammal species. Scientific Reports 10: 607.

2019

Parks, S. E., Cusano, D. A., Van Parijs, S. M., and Nowacek, D. P. 2019. Acoustic crypsis in communication by North Atlantic right whale mother-calf pairs on the calving grounds. Biology Letters 15: 20190485.

Dunn, D. C., Harrison, A-L., Curtice, C., DeLand, S.,Donnelly, B., Fujioka, E., Heywood, E., Kot, C. Y., Poulin, S., Whitten, M., Åkesson, S., Alberini, A., Appeltans, W., Arcos, J. M., Bailey, H., Ballance, L. T., Block, B., Blondin, H., Boustany, A. M., Brenner, J., Catry, P., Cejudo, D., Cleary, J., Corkeron, P., Costa, D. P., Coyne, M., Crespo, G. O., Davies, T. E., Dias, M. P., Douvere, F., Ferretti, F., Formia, A., Freestone, D., Friedlaender, A. S., Frisch-Nwakanma, H., Froján, C. B., Gjerde, K. M., Glowka, L., Godley, B. J., Gonzalez-Solis, J., Granadeiro, J. P., Gunn, V., Hashimoto, Y., Hawkes, L. M., Hays, G. C., Hazin, C., Jimenez, J., Johnson, D. E., Luschi, P., Maxwell, S. M., McClellan, C., Modest, M., Notarbartolo di Sciara, G., Palacio, A. H., Palacios, D. M., Pauly, A., Rayner, M., Rees, A. F., Salazar, E. R., Secor, D., Sequeira, A. M. M., Spalding, M., Spina, F., Van Parijs, S., Wallace, B., Varo-Cruz, N., Virtue, M., Weimerskirch, H., Wilson, L., Woodward B., and Halpin, P. N. 2019. The importance of migratory connectivity for global ocean policy. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 286: 20191472.

Haver, S. M., Fournet, M. E. H., Dziak, R. P., Gabriele, C., Gedamke, J., Hatch, L. T., Haxel, J., Heppell, S. A., McKenna, M. F., Mellinger, D. K., and Van Parijs, S. M. 2019. Comparing the Underwater Soundscapes of Four U.S. National Parks and Marine Sanctuaries. Frontiers in Marine Science 6:500.

Parks, S. E., Cusano, D. A., Van Parijs, S. M., and Nowacek, D. P. 2019. North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis) acoustic behavior on the calving grounds. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 146(1):EL15.

Heenehan, H., Stanistreet, J. E., Corkeron, P. J., Bouveret, L., Chalifour, J., Davis, G. E., Henriquez, A., Kiszka, J., Kline, L., Reed, C., Shamir-Reynoso, O., Vedie, F., DeWolf, W., Hoetjes, P., and Van Parijs, S. M. 2019. Caribbean Sea Soundscapes: Monitoring Humpback Whales, Biological Sounds, Geological Events, and Anthropogenic Impacts of Vessel Noise. Frontiers in Marine Science 6: 347.

Baumgartner, M. F., Bonnell, J., Van Parijs, S. M., Corkeron, P.J., Hotchkin, C., Ball, K., Pelletier, L-P., Partan, J., Peters, D., Kemp, J., Pietro, J., Newhall, K., Stokes, A., Cole, T. V. N., Quintana, E., and Kraus, S. D. 2019. Persistent near real-time passive acoustic monitoring for baleen whales from a moored buoy: system description and evaluation. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 10: 1476-1489.

Tremblay, C. J., Van Parijs, S. M., and Cholewiak, D. 50 to 30-Hz triplet and singlet down sweep vocalizations produced by sei whales (Balaenoptera borealis) in the western North Atlantic Ocean. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 145(6): 3351.

Zemeckis, D. R., Dean, M. J., DeAngelis, A. I., Van Parijs, S. M., Hoffman, W. S., Baumgartner, M. F., Hatch, L. T., Cadrin, S. X., and McGuire, C. H. Identifying the distribution of Atlantic cod spawning using multiple fixed and glider-mounted acoustic technologies. ICES Journal of Marine Science 76(6): 1610-1625.

Webster, T. A., Van Parijs, S. M., Rayment, W. J., and Dawson, S. M. 2019. Temporal variation in the vocal behaviour of southern right whales in the Auckland Islands, New Zealand. Royal Society Open Science 6: 181487.

2018

DeAngelis, A. I., Stanistreet, J. E., Baumman-Pickering, S., and Cholewiak, D. M. 2018. A description of echolocation clicks recorded in the presence of True's beaked whale (Mesoplodon mirus). The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 144(5): 2691-2700.

Cusano, D. A., Conger, L. A., Van Parijs, S. M., and Parks, S. E. 2018. Implementing conservation measures for the North Atlantic right whale: considering the behavioral ontogeny of mother-calf pairs. Animal Conservation 22: 228-237.

Cholewiak, D., Clark, C. W., Ponirakis, D., Frankel, A., Hatch, L. T., Risch, D., Stanistreet, J. E., Thompson, M., Vu, E., and Van Parijs, S. M. 2018. Communicating amidst the noise: modeling the aggregate influence of ambient and vessel noise on baleen whale communication space in a national marine sanctuary. Endangered Species Research 36: 59-75.

Root-Gutteridge, H., Cusano, D. A., Shiu, Y., Nowacek, D. P., Van Parijs, S. M., and Parks, S. E. 2018. A lifetime of changing calls: North Atlantic right whales, Eubalaena glacialis, refine call production as they age. Animal Behaviour 137: 21-34.

Cholewiak, D. M., Cerchio, S., Jacobsen, J. K, Urbán-R, J., and Clark, C. W. 2018. Songbird dynamics under the sea: acoustic interactions between humpback whales suggest song mediates male interactions. Royal Society Open Science 5: 171298.

Haver, S. M., Gedamke, J., Hatch, L. T., Dziak, R. P., Van Parijs, S., McKenna, M. F., Barlow, J., Berchok, C., DiDonato, E., Hanson, B., Haxel, J., Holt, M., Lipski, D., Matsumoto, H., Meinig, C., Mellinger, D. K., Moore, S. E., Oleson, E. M., Soldevilla, M. S., and Klinck, H. 2018. Monitoring long-term soundscape trends in U.S. Waters: The NOAA/NPS Ocean Noise Reference Station Network. Marine Policy 90: 6-13.

Stanistreet, J. E., Nowacek, D. P., Bell, J. T., Cholewiak, D. M., Hildebrand, J. A., Hodge, L. E. W., Van Parijs, S. M., and Read, A. J. 2018. Spatial and seasonal patterns in acoustic detections of sperm whales Physeter macrocephalus along the continental slope in the western North Atlantic Ocean. Endangered Species Research 25: 1-13.

2017

Soldevilla, M. S., Baumann-Pickering, S., Cholewiak, D., Hodge, L. E., Oleson, E. M., and Rankin, S. 2017. Geographic variation in Risso's dolphin echolocation click spectra. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 142(2): 599-617

Cholewiak, D., DeAngelis, A. I., Palka, D., Corkeron, P. J., and Van Parijs, S. M. 2017. Beaked whales demonstrate a marked acoustic response to the use of shipboard echosounders. Royal Society open science 4: 170940.

Stanley, J. A., Van Parijs, S. M., and Hatch, L. T. 2017. Underwater sound from vessel traffic reduces the effective communication range in Atlantic cod and haddock. Scientific Reports 7: 15633.

Davis, G. E., Baumgartner, M. F., Bonnell, J. M., Bell, J., Berchok, C., Bort Thornton, J., Brault, S., Buchanan, G., Charif, R. A., Cholewiak, D., Clark, C. W., Corkeron, P., Delarue, J., Dudzinski, K., Hatch, L., Hildebrand, J., Hodge, L., Klinck, H., Kraus, S., Martin, B., Mellinger, D. K., Moors-Murphy, H., Nieukirk, S., Nowacek, D. P., Parks, S., Read, A. J., Rice, A. N., Risch, D., Sirovic, A., Soldevilla, M., Stafford, K., Stanistreet, J. E., Summers, E., Todd, S., Warde, A., and Van Parijs, S. M. 2017. Long-term passive acoustic recordings track the changing distribution of North Atlantic right whales (Eubalaena glacialis) from 2004 to 2014. Scientific Reports 7: 13460.

DeAngelis, A. I., Valtierra, R., Van Parijs, S. M., and Cholewiak, D. 2017. Using multipath reflections to obtain dive depths of beaked whales from a towed hydrophone array. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 142(2): 1078-1087.

Heenehan, H. L., Van Parijs, S. M., Bejder, L., Tyne, J. A., and Johnston, D. W. 2017. Differential effects of human activity on Hawaiian spinner dolphins in their resting bays. Global Ecology and Conservation 10: 60-69.

Stanistreet, J. E., Nowacek, D. P., Baumann-Pickering, S., Bell, J. T., Cholewiak, D. M., Hildebrand, J. A., Hodge, L. E. W., Moors-Murphy, H. B., Van Parijs, S. M., and Read, A. J. 2017. Using passive acoustic monitoring to document the distribution of beaked whale species in the western North Atlantic Ocean. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 74(12): 2098-2109.

McDonald, E. M., Morano, J. L., DeAngelis, A. I., and Rice, A. N. 2017. Building time-budgets from bioacoustic signals to measure population-level changes in behavior: a case study with sperm whales in the Gulf of Mexico. Ecological Indicators 72: 360-364.

2016

Stanley, J. A., Van Parijs, S. M., and Hatch, L. T. 2016. The acoustic ecology of soniferous fishes within Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics 27: 070011.

Heenehan, H. L., Van Parijs, S. M., Bejder, L., Tyne, J. A., and Johnston, D. W. 2016. Using acoustics to prioritize management decisions to protect coastal dolphins: A case study using Hawaiian spinner dolphins. Marine Policy 75: 84-90.

Heenehan, H. L., Tyne, J. A., Bejder, L., Van Parijs, S. M., and Johnston, D. W. 2016. Passive acoustic monitoring of coastally associated Hawaiian spinner dolphins, Stenella longirostris, ground-truthed through visual surveys. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 140(1): 206-215.

Stanistreet, J. E., Nowacek, D. P., Read, A. J., Baumann-Pickering, S., Moors-Murphy, H. B., and Van Parijs, S. M. 2016. Effects of duty-cycled passive acoustic recordings on detecting the presence of beaked whales in the northwest Atlantic. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 140(1): EL31-EL37.

Webster, T. A., Dawson, S. M., Rayment, W. J., Parks, S. E., and Van Parijs, S. M. 2016. Quantitative analysis of the acoustic repertoire of southern right whales in New Zealand. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 140(1): 322-333.

Urazghildiiev, I. R. and Van Parijs, S. M. 2016. Automatic grunt detector and recognizer for Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua). The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 139(5): 2532-2540.

Hatch, L. T., Wahle, C. M., Gedamke, J., Harrison, J., Laws, B., Moore, S. E., Stadler, J. H., and Van Parijs, S. M. 2016. Can you hear me here? Managing Acoustic habitat in US waters. Endangered Species Research 30: 171-186.

DeAngelis, A., Wilder, J., Davis, G., Cholewiak, D., Gerlach, D., Van Parijs, S., and Baumgartner, M. 2016. Guide to monitoring real-time marine mammal detections using autonomous platforms. DOI: 10.25923/d1ek-vx07

Mooney, T. A., Kaplan, M. B., Izzi, A., Lamoni, L., and Sayigh, L. 2016. Temporal trends in cusk eel sound production at a proposed US wind farm site. Aquatic Biology 24: 201-210.

Roch, M. A., Batchelor, H., Baumann-Pickering, S., Berchok, C. L., Cholewiak, D., Fujioka, E., Garland, E. C., Herbert, S., Hildebrand, J. A., Oleson, E. M., Van Parijs, S., Risch, D., Sirovic, A., and Soldevilla, M. S. 2016. Management of acoustic metadata for bioacoustics. Ecological Informatics 31: 122-136.

2015

Ou, H., Au, W. W. L., Van Parijs, S., Oleson, E. M., and Rankin, S. 2015. Discrimination of frequency-modulated Baleen whale downsweep calls with overlapping frequencies. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 137(6): 3024-3032.

Thomisch, K., Boebel, O., Zitterbart, D.P., Samaran, F., Van Parijs, S., and Van Opzeeland, I. 2015. Effects of subsampling of passive acoustic recordings on acoustic metrics. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 138(1): 267-278.

Van Parijs, S. M., Baumgartner, M., Cholewiak, D., Davis, G., Gedamke, J., Gerlach, D., Haver, S., Hatch, J., Hatch, L., Hotchkin, C., Izzi, A., Klinck, H., Matzen, E., Risch, D., Silber, G. K., and Thompson, M. 2015. NEPAN: A U.S. Northeast Passive Acoustic Sensing Network for Monitoring, Reducing Threats and the Conservation of Marine Animals. Marine Technology Society Journal 49(2): 70-86.

Van Parijs, S. M., Curtice, C., and Ferguson, M. C. (Eds.). 2015. Biologically Important Areas for cetaceans within U.S. waters. Aquatic Mammals (Special Issue) 41(1): 128 pp.

Bort, J., Van Parijs, S. M., Stevick, P. T., Summers, E., and Todd, S. 2015. North Atlantic right whale Eubalaena glacialis vocalization patterns in the central Gulf of Maine from October 2009 through October 2010. Endangered Species Research 26: 271-280.

2014

Risch, D., Castellote, M., Clark, C. W., Davis, G. E., Dugan, P. J., Hodge, L. E. W., Kumar, A., Lucke, K., Mellinger, D. K., Nieukirk, S. L., Popescu, C. M., Ramp, C., Read, A. J., Rice, A. N., Silva, M. A., Siebert, U., Stafford, K. M., Verdaat, H., and Van Parijs, S.M. 2014. Seasonal migrations of North Atlantic minke whales: novel insights from large-scale passive acoustic monitoring networks. Movement Ecology 2(24): 1-17.

Risch, D., Corkeron, P. J., Ellison, W. T., and Van Parijs, S. M. 2014. Formal Comment to Gong et al.: Ecosystem Scale Acoustic Sensing Reveals Humpback Whale Behavior Synchronous with Herring Spawning Processes and Re-Evaluation Finds No Effect of Sonar on Humpback Song Occurrence in the Gulf of Maine in Fall 2006. PLoS ONE 9(10): e109225.

Risch, D., Gales, N. J., Gedamke, J., Kindermann, L., Nowacek, D. P., Read, A. J., Siebert, U., Van Opzeeland, I. C., Van Parijs, S. M., and Friedlaender, A. S. 2014. Mysterious bio-duck sound attributed to the Antarctic minke whale (Balaenoptera bonaerensis). Biology Letters 10: 20140175.

Risch, D., Siebert, U., and Van Parijs, S. M. 2014. Individual calling behaviour and movements of North Atlantic minke whales (Balaenoptera acutorostrata). Behaviour 151(9): 1335-1360.

2013

Cholewiak, D., Baumann-Pickering, S., and Van Parijs, S. M. 2013. Description of sounds associated with Sowerby's beaked whales (Mesoplodon bidens) in the western North Atlantic Ocean. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 134(5): 3905-3912.

Risch, D., Clark, C. W., Dugan, P. J., Popescu, M., Siebert, U., and Van Parijs, S. M. 2013. Minke whale acoustic behavior and multi-year seasonal and diel vocalization patterns in Massachusetts Bay, USA. Marine Ecology Progress Series 489: 279-295.

Valtierra, R. D., Holt, R. G., Cholewiak, D., and Van Parijs, S. M. 2013. Calling depths of baleen whales from single sensor data: Development of an autocorrelation method using multipath localization. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 134(3): 2571-2581.

Cholewiak, D., Sousa-Lima, R., and Cerchio, S. 2013. Humpback whale song hierarchical structure: historical context and discussion of current classification issues. Marine Mammal Science 29(3): E312-E332.

Van Opzeeland, I., Van Parijs, S., Kinderman, L., Burkhardt, E., and Boebel, O. 2013. Calling in the cold: Pervasive acoustic presence of humpback whales (Megaptera nocaeandliae) in Antarctic coastal waters. PLoS ONE 8(9): e73007.

Baumgartner, M. F., Fratantoni, D. M., Hurst, T. P., Brown, M. W., Cole, T. V. M., Van Parijs, S. M., and Johnson, M. 2013. Real-time reporting of baleen whale passive acoustic detections from ocean gliders. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 134(3): 1814-1823.

Stanistreet, J. E., Risch, D., and Van Parijs, S. M. 2013. Passive acoustic tracking of singing humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) on a Northwest Atlantic feeding ground. PLoS ONE 8(4): e61263.

Hernandez, K. M., Risch, D., Cholewiak, D. M., Dean, M. J., Hatch, L. T., Hoffman, W. S., Rice, A. N., Zemeckis, D., and Van Parijs, S. M. 2013. Acoustic monitoring of Atlantic Cod (Gadus morhua) in Massachusetts Bay: implications for management and conservation. ICES Journal of Marine Science 70(3): 628-635.

2012

Hatch, L. T., Clark, C. W., Van Parijs, S. M., Frankel, A., and Ponirakis, D. 2012. Quantifying loss of communication space for right whales in and around a U.S. National Marine Sanctuary. Conservation Biology 26(6): 983-994.

Mussoline, S. E., Risch, D., Hatch. L. T., Weinrich, M. T., Wiley, D. N., Thompson, M. A., Corkeron, P. J., and Van Parijs, S. M. 2012. Seasonal and diel variation in North Atlantic right whale up-calls: implications for management and conservation in the northwestern Atlantic Ocean. Endangered Species Research 17: 17-26.

Vu, E. T., Risch, D., Clark, C. W., Gaylord, S., Hatch, L. T., Thompson, M. A., Wiley, D. N., and Van Parijs, S. M. 2012. Humpback whale song occurs extensively on feeding grounds in the western North Atlantic Ocean. Aquatic Biology 14: 175-183

Risch, D., Corkeron, P. J., Ellison, W. T., and Van Parijs, S. M. 2012. Changes in humpback whale song occurrence in response to an acoustic source 200 km away. PLoS ONE 7(1): e29741.

Van Opzeeland, I. C., Van Parijs, S. M., Frickenhaus, S., Kreiss, C. M., and Boebel, O. 2012. Individual variation in pup vocalizations and absence of behavioral signs of maternal vocal discrimination in Weddell seals (Leptonychotes weddellii). Marine Mammal Science 28(2): E158-172.

2011

Valtierra, R. D., Van Parijs, S. M., and Holt, R. G. 2011. A simple autocorrelation method for multipath localization techniques. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 129(4): 2574.

Wiley, D., Ware, C., Bocconcelli, A., Cholewiak, D., Friedlaender, A., Thompson, M., and Weinrich, M. 2011. Underwater components of humpback whale bubble-net feeding behavior. Behaviour 148: 575-602.

Moore, S. E., Van Parijs, S. M., Southall, B. L., and Stafford, K. M. 2011. Listening to marine mammals at basin to local scales. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 129(4): 2371-2371.

2010

Van Opzeeland, I., Van Parijs, S., Bornemann, H., Frickenhaus, S., Kindermann, L., Klinck, H., Plotz, J., and Boebel, O. 2010. Acoustic ecology of Antarctic pinnipeds. Marine Ecology Progress Series 414: 267-291.

2009

Clark, C. W., Ellison, W. T., Southall, B. L., Hatch, L., Van Parijs, S. M. Frankel, A., and Ponirakis, D. 2009. Acoustic masking in marine ecosystems: intuitions, analysis, and implication. Theme Section 'Acoustics in marine ecology' in Marine Ecology Progress Series 395: 201-222.

Delarue, J., Todd, S., Van Parijs, S. M., and Di Iorio, L. 2009. Geographic variation in Northwest Atlantic fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus) song: implications for stock structure assessment. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 125(3): 1774-1782.

Van Opzeeland, I. C., Corkeron, P. J., Risch, D., Stenson, G., and Van Parijs, S. M. 2009. Geographic variation in vocalizations of pups and mother-pup behavior of harp seals (Pagophilus groenlandicus). Aquatic Biology 6: 109-120.

Van Parijs, S. M., Clark, C. W., Sousa-Lima, R. S., Parks, S. E., Rankin, S., Risch, D., and Van Opzeeland, I. C. 2009. Management, mitigation and research applications of near real time and archival passive acoustic sensors over variable temporal and spatial scales. Theme Section 'Acoustics in marine ecology' in Marine Ecology Progress Series 395: 21-36.

2008

Hatch, L., Clark, C., Merrick, R., Van Parijs, S., Ponirakis, D., Schwehr, K., Thompson, M., and Wiley, D. 2008. Characterizing the relative contributions of large vessels to total ocean noise fields: a case study using the Gerry E. Studds Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary. Environmental management 42(5): 735-752.

Baumgartner, M.F., Van Parijs, S.M., Wenzel, F.W., Tremblay, C.J., Esch, H.C., and Warde, A.M. 2008. Low frequency vocalizations attributed to sei whales (Balaenoptera borealis). Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 124(2): 1339-1349.

2007

Risch, D., Clark, C. W., Corkeron, P. J., Elepfandt, A., Kovacs, K. M., Lydersen, C., Stirling, I., and Van Parijs, S. M. 2007. Vocalizations of male bearded seals, Erignathus barbatus: classification and geographical variation. Animal Behaviour 73(5): 747-762.

2006

Davies, C. E., Kovacs, K. M., Lydersen, C., and Van Parijs, S. M. 2006. Development of display behavior in young captive bearded seals. Marine Mammal Science 22(4): 952-965.

Van Parijs, S. M. and Clark, C. W. 2006. Long-term mating tactics in an aquatic-mating pinniped, the bearded seal, Erignathus barbatus. Animal Behaviour 72(6): 1269-1277.

2004

Van Opzeeland, I. C. and Van Parijs, S. M. 2004. Individuality in harp seal, Phoca groenlandica, pup vocalizations. Animal Behaviour 68(5): 1115-1123.

Van Parijs, S. M., Lydersen, C., and Kovacs, K. M. 2004. Effects of ice cover on the behavioural patterns of aquatic-mating male bearded seals. Animal Behaviour 68(1): 89-96.

2003

Van Parijs, S. M., Corkeron, P. J., Harvey, J., Hayes, S. A., Mellinger, D. K., Rouget, P. A., Thompson, P. M., Wahlberg, M., and Kovacs, K. M. 2003. Patterns in the vocalizations of male harbor seals. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 113(6): 3403-3410.

Van Parijs, S. M., Lydersen, C., and Kovacs, K. M. 2003. Vocalizations and movements suggest alternative mating tactics in male bearded seals. Animal Behaviour 65(2): 273-283.

Van Parijs, S. M. 2003. Aquatic mating in pinnipeds: A review. Special issue on Pinniped Vocal Communication in Aquatic Mammals 29(2): 214-226.

2002

Van Parijs, S. M., Smith, J., and Corkeron, P. J. 2002. Using calls to estimate the abundance of inshore dolphins: a case study with Pacific humpback dolphins Sousa chinensis. Journal of Applied Ecology 39(5): 853-864.

2001

Van Parijs, S. M. and Corkeron, P. J. 2001. Evidence for signature whistle production by a Pacific humpback dolphin, Sousa chinensis. Marine Mammal Science 17(4): 944-949.

Van Parijs, S. M. and Corkeron, P. J. 2001. Boat traffic affects the acoustic behaviour of Pacific humpback dolphins, Sousa chinensis. Journal of the Marine Biological Association 81(3): 533-538.

Van Parijs, S. M., Kovacs, K. M., and Lydersen, C. 2001. Spatial and temporal distribution of vocalising male bearded seals: implications for male mating strategies. Behaviour 138(7): 905-922.

Reports & Theses

North Atlantic Right Whale Passive Acoustic Detection Reports. NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center Reference Documents.

Davis, G. E. 2020. Using passive acoustic data to track changes in baleen whale distribution throughout the western North Atlantic Ocean. Ph.D Dissertation. University of Massachusetts at Boston.

Stanistreet, J. E. 2017. Ecology of Beaked Whales and Sperm Whales in the Western North Atlantic Ocean: Insights from Passive Acoustic Monitoring. Ph.D Dissertation. Duke University.

Heinemann, D., Gedamke, J., Oleson, E., Barlow, J., Crance, J., Holt, M., Soldevilla, M., & Van Parijs, S. 2016. Report of the Joint Marine Mammal Commission-National Marine Fisheries Service Passive Acoustic Surveying Workshop, 16-17 April 2015, La Jolla, CA. Marine Mammal Commission, Bethesda, MD, and National Marine Fisheries Service, Silver Spring, MD., U.S. Dept. Commerce. NOAA Tech. Memo. NMFS-F/SPO-164, 107 p.

McGuire, C. H., Dean, M. J., Hoffman, W. S., Cadrin, S. X., Zemeckis, D. Z., Van Parijs, S., & Hatch, L. 2016. Ecosystem studies of Atlantic cod spawning aggregations in relation to fisheries interactions using novel active and passive acoustic approaches. Final Report. The Nature Conservancy. NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service, Saltonstall Kennedy Grant Program.

Heenehan, H. L. 2016. Soundscape Ecology of Hawaiian Spinner Dolphin Resting Bays. Ph.D Dissertation. Duke University.

Risch, D. 2013. Baleen whale acoustic ecology with focus on minke whales (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) and reference to anthropogenic noise. Ph.D. Dissertation. Christian-Albrechts-Universitat zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany.

Valtierra, R. 2013. Source of localization of narrow band signals in multipath environments, with application to marine mammals. Ph.D. Dissertation. Boston University.

Van Opzeeland, I. 2010. Acoustic ecology of marine mammals in polar oceans. Ph.D. Dissertation. Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bemerhaven, Germany.

Cholewiak, D. 2008. Evaluating the role of song in the humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) breeding system with respect to intra-sexual interactions. Ph.D. Dissertation. Cornell University.

Van Parijs, S. & Southall, B., Convenors and Workshop Co-chairs. 2007. Report of the 2006 NOAA National Passive Acoustics Workshop: Developing a Strategic Program Plan for NOAA’s Passive Acoustics Ocean Observing System (PAOOS), Woods Hole, Massachusetts, 11–13 April 2006. NOAA Technical Memorandum. NMFS-F/SPO-81, 64 p.

Book Chapters

Gedamke, J., Ferguson, M., Harrison, J., Hatch, L., Henderson, L., Porter, M. B., Southall, B. L., & Van Parijs, S. 2016. Predicting anthropogenic noise contributions to US waters. In The Effects of Noise on Aquatic Life II. Springer New York, pp. 341-347.

Harrison, J., Ferguson, M., Gedamke, J., Hatch, L., Southall, B., & Van Parijs, S. 2016. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Cetacean and Sound Mapping Effort: Continuing Forward with an Integrated Ocean Noise Strategy. In The Effects of Noise on Aquatic Life II. Springer New York, pp. 409-416.

Miksis-Olds, J. L., Van Opzeeland, I. C., Van Parijs, S. M., & Jones, J. 2016. Pinniped Sounds in the Polar Oceans. Chapter 11 in Au, W. & Lammers, M. (eds.) Listening in the Ocean. Springer New York, pp. 257-308.

Cholewiak, D., Risch, D., Valtierra, R., & Van Parijs, S. M., 2013. Methods for passive acoustic tracking of marine mammals: estimating calling rates, depths and detection probability for density estimation. Chapter 6 in Adam, O. (ed) Detection, Classification and Localization of marine mammals, pp. 107 - 145.

Whitehead, H. & Van Parijs, S. M. 2010. Studying marine mammal social systems. Chapter 12 in Boyd, I. L., Bowen, W. D., and Iverson, S. J. (eds.) Marine Mammal Ecology and Conservation: A Handbook of Techniques. Oxford University Press.

Van Opzeeland, I., Kindermann, L., Boebel, O., & Van Parijs, S. 2008. Insights into the acoustic behaviour of polar pinnipeds: current knowledge and emerging techniques of study. In Weber, E.A., Krause L.H. (eds.) Animal Behaviour: New Research. Nova Science Publishers, New York, pp. 133-161.

Corkeron, P. J. & Van Parijs, S. M. 2001. Marine mammal migrations and movement patterns. In Steele, J. H., Turekian, K. K. & Thorpe, S. A. (eds). Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences. Academic Press, London, pp. 1603 - 1611.