MARINE MAMMALS
Abstract
The Marine Mammals and Biology program focus is to better understand and characterize the effects of underwater sounds produced by Navy sources (especially sonar) on marine mammals. Efforts include research on Integrated ecosystems, effects of sound exposure on marine mammals, and improving the monitoring and detection of marine mammals. The research in this program supports Navy environmental compliance information needs and facilitates acquiring LOAs from NOAA that enable all Navy training and testing operations, and the development of appropriate state-of-the-art mitigation measure. The marine mammals research conducted in this Program Element (PE) represents part of a total effort executed in coordination with complementary research performed in PE 0602435N Ocean Warfighting Environment Applied Research. This Activity has been created specifically to address the work associated with determining and mitigating the effects on the behavior of marine mammals of manmade sound transmitted underwater.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2019
- Source ID
- 7601469c54ed70fc8a51d9200220e8a0