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Reactions of bowhead whales, Balaena mysticetus, to drilling and dredging noise in the Canadian Beaufort Sea

1990
Pay-walled Journal Article

Marine Environmental Research

Richardson, W. J., Wursig, B. and Greene Jr., C. R.

Behavioural reactions of bowhead whales to seven 30–40 min underwater playbacks of recorded drillship and dredge noise were determined in 1982–1984. Some (but not all) bowheads...
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Keywords: Beaufort Sea, Behaviour, Bowhead whale, Driling

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

Effects of tones associated with drilling activities on bowhead whale calling rates

2017
Open Access Peer Reviewed Publication

PLOS ONE

Blackwell, S. B., Nationes, C. S., Thode, A. M., Kauffman, M. E., Conrad, A. S., Norman, R. G. and Kim, K. H.

During summer 2012 Shell performed exploratory drilling at Sivulliq, a lease holding located in the autumn migration corridor of bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus), northwest of Camden...
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Keywords: Airgun, Bowhead whale, Drilling, Song