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Underwater noise signatures of ships in Australian waters (Technical Report)

2021
Open Access Project Report

Project E2 National Environmental Science Programme

Erbe, C., Duncan, A., Peel, D. and Smith, J.N.

Ship noise recorded alongside archival recordings of ships from Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS). The results of applying the software to recordings from an initial set...
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Keywords: Ocean noise, Shipping

Impacts of anthropogenic noise on marine life: Publication patterns, new discoveries, and future directions in research and management

2015
Open Access Journal Article

Ocean & Coastal Management

Williams, R., Wright A.J., Ashe E., Blight L.K., Bruintjes R., Canessa R., Clark C.W., Cullis-Suzuki S., Dakin D.T., Erbe C., Hammond P.S., Merchant N.D., O'Hara P.D., Purser J., Radford A.N., Simpson S.D., Thomas L., and Wale M.A.

Anthropogenic underwater noise is now recognized as a world-wide problem, and recent studies have shown a broad range of negative effects in a variety of taxa....
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Keywords: Anthropogenic, Conservation, Ecology, Marine, Ocean noise, Policy, Shipping

Standards for Project JOMOPANS: Ocean Noise Monitoring for the North Sea

2019
Open Access Conference

UACE 2019, Crete

Stephen Robinson, Lian Wang, Jake Ward

At this moment, there are no international standards for monitoring ambient noise in the ocean. Such standards would require consensus on a number of topics: (i)...
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Keywords: Monitoring, Ocean noise, Standards

Critical information gaps remain in understanding impacts of industrial seismic surveys on marine vertebrates

2019
Open Access Article

Endangered Species Research

Elliott, B. W., Read A. J., Godley B. J., Nelms S. E., and Nowacek D. P.

Anthropogenic noise is increasing throughout the world’s oceans. One major contributor is industrial seismic surveys—a process typically undertaken to locate and estimate the quantity of oil...
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Keywords: Chronic stress, Marine mammals, Marine turtles, Marine vertebrates, Ocean noise, Seismic airguns, Turtles