Tools to Compare Diving-Animal Kinematics With Acoustic Behavior and Exposure

Abstract

Intense international concern has arisen over the potential effects of anthropogenic sound on protected marine wildlife. To study this issue presents a challenge, however, because research animals in captivity form a limited sample set that may not always be appropriate to extrapolate to wild populations, and because most marine species spend the majority of their time submerged and out of sight of researchers. Thus instrumentation capable of monitoring free-ranging marine animals is an essential foundation for research on sound and marine wildlife.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2009
Accession Number
ADA531220

Entities

People

  • Colin Ware

Organizations

  • University of New Hampshire

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accelerometers
  • Animals
  • Control Panels
  • Detectors
  • Flow Noise
  • Graphical User Interface
  • Instrumentation
  • Kinematics
  • Mammals
  • Marine Mammals
  • Monitoring
  • New Hampshire
  • Noise
  • Odontocetes
  • Software Development
  • User Interface
  • Wildlife

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Marine Mammal Biology