Onboard Acoustic Recording from Diving Elephant Seals.

Abstract

The aim of this project was to record sounds impinging on free-ranging northern elephant seals, Mirounga angustirostris, a first step in determining the importance of LFS to these animals as they dive, forage and migrate to and from their rookeries in the eastern north Pacific Ocean.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 03, 1996
Accession Number
ADA327199

Entities

People

  • Burney J. Leboeuf
  • Daniel P. Costa
  • Peter Tyack
  • Stacia Fletcher
  • Susanna B Blackwell

Organizations

  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Ambient Noise
  • Animals
  • Deployment
  • Flow Noise
  • Frequency
  • Hydrophones
  • Mammals
  • Marine Mammals
  • North Pacific Ocean
  • Oceanography
  • Oceans
  • Pacific Ocean
  • Respiration
  • Sea Lions
  • Tape Recording
  • Water
  • Wildlife

Readers

  • Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Dynamics.
  • Marine Mammal Biology