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. Tags, attached to marine mammals are being increasingly used to understand their underwater behavior. Typically these tags contain a package of instruments including accelerometers, magnetometers, a pressure sensor and a hydrophone. The goal of this project is to make the interpretation of this data more straightforward for scientists studying marine mammal behaviors.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 30, 2010
- Accession Number
- ADA541849
Entities
People
- Colin Ware
Organizations
- University of New Hampshire