Calibrating and monitoring the western gray whale mitigation zone and estimating acoustic transmission during a 3D seismic survey, Sakhalin Island, Russia

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 134, Issue 1-3, 2007, Pages 21-44

  Rutenko, A N ^a   Borisov, S V ^a   Gritsenko, A V ^a   Jenkerson, Mike R ^b  

^a IL ICHEV PACIFIC OCEANOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^b EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

3D seismic survey; Noise monitoring and mitigation; Sakhalin Island, Russia; Western gray whale

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; CALIBRATION; MARINE BIOLOGY; MONITORING; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; SURVEYS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

NOISE MITIGATION; NOISE MONITORING; SEISMIC NOISE; SEISMIC SURVEY;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENTS;

WATER;

ACOUSTIC METHOD; CALIBRATION; COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUE; FEEDING GROUND; HABITAT CONSERVATION; MITIGATION; MONITORING; SEISMIC SURVEY; WHALE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; AUTUMN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NOISE MEASUREMENT; NOISE POLLUTION; NOISE REDUCTION; NONHUMAN; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOUND TRANSMISSION; SUMMER; WHALE;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; CALIBRATION; DATA COLLECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; NOISE; RUSSIA; WHALES;

EURASIA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SAKHALIN; SAKHALIN ISLAND;

ESCHRICHTIIDAE; ESCHRICHTIUS ROBUSTUS;

EID: 35848961406     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-007-9814-z     Document Type: Article

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