Sounds Produced by Wood Boring Marine Animals and Attempts to Detect These Animals in Waterfront Structures Using Passive Sonic Techniques.

Abstract

Wood boring organisms such as shipworms and gribbles make characteristic sounds as they actively bore into wood. In the laboratory these sounds isolated from ambient noise have been recorded and analyzed. In harbor areas, infested piles and seawalls are usually covered with fouling growth such as barnacles, and the noise created by feeding barnacles and other foulers make it impossible to detect the soft low intensity sounds of wood borers. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1979
Accession Number
ADA076549

Entities

People

  • E. C. Haderlie

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acoustic Holography
  • Acoustic Propagation
  • Ambient Noise
  • Animals
  • Barnacles
  • California
  • Civil Engineering
  • Construction
  • Detection
  • Fouling Organisms
  • Maintenance Personnel
  • Medical Personnel
  • Microphones
  • Sea Water
  • Water
  • Waterfront Structures
  • X Rays

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  • Aquatic Ecology
  • Forest Ecology