Accession Number:

ADA573472

Title:

Analysis of High Spatial, Temporal, and Directional Resolution Recordings of Biological Sounds in the Southern California Bight

Descriptive Note:

Annual rept.

Corporate Author:

SCRIPPS INSTITUTION OF OCEANOGRAPHY LA JOLLA CA MARINE PHYSICAL LAB

Personal Author(s):

• D'Spain, Gerald L.

Report Date:

2012-09-30

Pagination or Media Count:

8.0

Abstract:

The long-term goals of this research effort are to detect, localize, and characterize the underwater biological sounds in the Southern California Bight, for the benefit of Navy environmental compliance. The particular focus in this program is on the biological sounds at low to mid frequencies - 5 to 1200 Hz - recorded by an advanced prototype Navy system deployed off the southern California coast in 1999. The efforts in this program also support the Ph.D. research of graduate students in marine bioacoustics and ocean acoustics at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

Descriptors:

• *UNDERWATER SOUND
• ACOUSTIC DATA
• ACOUSTIC DETECTION
• BIOACOUSTICS
• CALIFORNIA
• HABITATS
• OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA
• OFFSHORE
• UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS
• WHALES

Subject Categories:

• Biological Oceanography
• Physical and Dynamic Oceanography
• Acoustics

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE