Use of active sonar for cetacean conservation and behavioral-ecology studies: A paradox?

5th International Conference on Bioacoustics 2009, Proceedings of the Institute of Acoustics

Volumn 31, Issue PART 1, 2009, Pages 115-121

  Bernasconi, M ^a,b   Patel, R ^b   Nottestad L ^b   Knudsen, F R ^c   Brierley, A S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c KONGSBERG MARITIME   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC METHOD; ACOUSTIC SYSTEMS; ACOUSTIC TECHNIQUES; ACTIVE SONAR; BODY SHAPES; ECHO SOUNDERS; ECOLOGICAL STUDIES; FREQUENCY RANGES; HIGH DEFINITION; HIGH FREQUENCY; HUMPBACK WHALES; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MARINE MAMMALS; MINKE WHALES; NARROW BEAMS; NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS; PASSIVE ACOUSTICS; POSSIBLE FUTURES; PRESENT STATUS; SEISMIC MITIGATION; SMALL SAMPLES; SONAR USE; SOURCE LEVEL; TIME-SCALES;

ACOUSTIC FIELDS; BACKSCATTERING; ECOLOGY; FINS (HEAT EXCHANGE); MAMMALS; PROFILOMETRY; SONAR; TRACKING (POSITION); UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

BIOACOUSTICS;

EID: 84871263115     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (19)

1. Axelsen B.E., Anker-Nilssen T., Fossum P., Kvamme C. And Nøttestad L. Pretty patterns but a simple strategy: predator-prey interactions between juvenile herring and Atlantic puffins observed with multibeam sonar. Can. J. Zool., 79:1586-1596, 2001.
2. Au, W.W.L. Acoustic reflectivity of a dolphin. J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 99: 3844-3848, 1996.
3. Bernasconi M., Nøttestad L., Krakstad J. O. and Axelsen B.E. In situ target strength measurements of a small cetacean: Tracking individual dusky dolphins (Lagenorhyncus obscurus) in deep water. 17th SMM Biennial Conference Cape Town, South Africa, December 2007.
4. Bernasconi M., Nøttestad L., Krakstad J. O. and Axelsen B.E. (2008). Dusky dolphins (Lagenorhyncus obscurus) hunting Cape horse mackerel (Trachurus trachurus capensis) in the northern Benguela: active acoustic recording of predator-prey interactions. In Review to Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser.
5. Dunn J. L. Airborne measurements of the Acoustic Characteristics of a Sperm Whale. J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 46: 1052-1054, 1969.
6. A. Frantzis, "Does Acoustic Testing Strand Whales?" Nature, 392: 29, 1998
7. Gødo O. R., Doksæter L., Olsen E., Nøttestad L. and Patel R. (2007) Monitoring of marine mammals and their prey by an active upward looking bottom mounted echosounder. 17th SMM Biennial Conference Cape Town, South Africa, December 2007.
8. Levenson J. L. Source level and bistatic target strength of the sperm whale (Physeter catodon) measured from an oceanographic aircraft. J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 55: 1100-1103, 1974.
9. Love, R.H. (1973). Target strengths of humpack whales Megaptera novaeangliae. J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 54, 1312-1315, 1974.
10. Lucifredi I. and Stein P. J. Gray whale target strength measurements and the analysis of the backscattered response. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 121: 1383-1391, 2007.
11. Miller J. H., Potter D. C., Weber T. and Felix J. The target strength of the northern right whale (Eubalaena glacialis). J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 105: 992, 1999.
12. Miller P.J.O., Biassoni N., Samuels A. and Tyack P. L. "Whale Songs Lengthen in Response to Sonar," Nature, v. 405 (2000): 903, 2000.
13. Oliver J. S. and Kvitek R. G. Side-Scan Sonar records and diver observations of the Gray Whale (Eschrichtius robustus) feeding grounds. Biol. Bull. 167:264-269, August 1984.
14. Parson E. C. M., Birks I., Evans P. G. H., Gordon J. C. D., Shrimpton J. H. And pooley S. The possible impacts of military activity on cetaceans in West Scotland. Europ. Res. Cet. 14:185-190, 2000.
15. Rendell, L.E. & Gordon, J.C.D. Vocal responses of long-finned pilot whales (Globicephala melas) to military sonar in the Ligurian Sea. Marine Mammal Science, 15, 198-204, 1999.
16. Schrope M. "Whale Deaths Caused by US Navy's Sonar," Nature 415: 106, 2002.
17. Simmonds, M. & Lopez-Jurado, L.F. Whales and the military. Nature 337: 448, 1991.
18. Simonds J. and MacLennan D. In Fisheries Acoustic Theory and Practice. Second Edition published by Blackwell Science, 2005.
19. Vabø, R., and Nøttestad L. Individual based model of fish schooling reactions: Prediction of antipredator behavior as observed in nature. Fisheries Oceanography 6:3, 155-171, 1997.