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Seal response to airgun sounds during summer seismic surveys in the Alaskan Beaufort Sea.

2001
Pay-walled Peer Reviewed Publication

Marine Mammal Science

Harris, R.E., Miller, G.W. and Richardson, W.J.

Numbers, sighting distances, and behavior of seals were studied during a nearshore seismic program off northern Alaska in July-September 1996. We observed from the seismic vessel...
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Keywords: Airgun, Alaska, Seal, Seismic surveys

Controlling Underwater Noise from Offshore Gravel Islands During Production Activities

2006
Open Access Report

Noise Control Engineering

Spence, J.

Noise Control Engineering (NCE) has performed a study investigating methods for reducing the underwater radiated noise resulting from oil and gas production operations on gravel islands....
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Keywords: Alaska, Gravel islands, Underwater noise

Analysis and ranking of the acoustic disturbance potential of petroleum industry activities and other sources of noise in the environment of marine mammals in Alaska.

1989
Pay-walled Report

BBN Systems and Technologies Corporation

Malme, C. I., Miles, P. R., Miller, G. W., Richardson, W. J., Roseneau, D. G., Thomson, D. H., Greene, C. R., Jr.

The study compares the relative magnitudes and effects on marine mammals of noise from oil and gas industry activities with noise from other sources in Alaska...
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Keywords: Alaska, Environment, Petroleum industry

Behavioral responses affect distribution analyses of bowhead whales in the vicinity of seismic operations

2016
Pay-walled Peer Reviewed Publication

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Robertson, F. C., Koski, W. R. and Trites, A. W.

Aerial surveys are sometimes used to assess the densities of wide-ranging whales, as well as changes in their distributions in response to human activity. Such surveys...
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Keywords: Alaska, Availability, Beaufort Sea, Behavior, Bowhead whale, Distance sampling, G(0), Generalized additive model, Seismic survey, Spatial models