Behavioral Response Evaluations Employing Robust Baselines and Actual Navy Training
Abstract
The goal of this project is to develop and apply methods to determine baleen whale species behavioral responses to real-world full-scale Navy training, using passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) data from dense arrays. The research has two components: establish robust baseline behaviors for multiple baleen whale species, leveraging current, and to be refined, automated processing capabilities to process/re-process existing large datasets; and extend and adapt methods for quantifying behavioral responses to mid-frequency active sonar (MFAS) dose that were developed in an earlier project to the current proposed effort and use the results from periods of Navy training, including MFAS operation, to compare against baseline behavioral data.The proposed work is divided into 4 tasks: review existing acoustic data and methods; metrics selection; analysis of acoustic data; and development and application of statistical methods.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Sep 30, 2016
- Source ID
- N000141612859
Entities
People
- Steve W Martin
Organizations
- National Marine Mammal Foundation
- Office of Naval Research
- United States Navy