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EIA Database

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

International Protected Species Observer Data

2019
Open Access Report

Final Report

Milne S., Butler M., Cathery T., Mander P., Richardsn J., Unietis A.

Data from 420 seismic surveys conducted between 2005 and 2017 from three key areas for E&P activities, the US Gulf of Mexico, West Africa and Australia,...
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Keywords: MMO, Protected Species, PSO, Seismic surveys, Underwater sound

Seismic surveys and marine mammals

2004
Open Access Report

Joint OGP / IAGC Paper

OGP and IAGC

The oil and gas and geophysical industries are committed to operating in an environmentally responsible manner. This requires thorough attention to the potential impacts on the...
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Keywords: Marine mammals, Seismic surveys

The effects on marine fish, diving mammals and birds of underwater sound generated by seismic surveys.

1994
Open Access Peer Reviewed Publication

Fawley Aquatic Research Laboratories

Turnpenny, A. W. H. and Nedwell, J. R.

Collates existing literature relevant to understanding the effects on marine verebrates of sound emitted by seismic survey operations. Reviews critically the scientific quality of studies, assesses...
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Keywords: Birds, Diving mammals, Marine fish, Seismic surveys, Underwater sound

BRAHSS - Behavioral Response of Australian Humpback Whales to Seismic Surveys

2019
Open Access Report

Final Report

Douglas H. Cato, Michael J. Noad, Rebecca A. Dunlop, Robert D. McCauley

The project has demonstrated the importance of obtaining an adequate sample size of active and control treatments and baseline data, to ensure that responses to exposure...
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Keywords: BRAHSS, Cetaceans, Seismic surveys

Project BRAHSS: Behavioural response of Australian Humpback whales to seismic surveys

2012
Open Access Peer Reviewed Publication

Proceedings of Acoustics

Cato, D., Noad, M., Dunlop, R., McCauley, R. et al.

BRAHSS is a major project aimed at understanding how humpback whales respond to noise, particularly from seismic air gun arrays. It also aims to infer the...
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Keywords: Behavioural response, BRAHSS, Humpback whales, Seismic surveys

Extensively remodeled, fractured cetacean tympanic bullae show that whales can survive traumatic injury to the ears

2015
Pay-walled Journal Article

Journal of Anatomy

Yamato, M., Khidas K., Pyenson N. D., Fordyce R. E., and Mead J. G.

Underwater human activities and anthropogenic noise in our oceans may be a major source of habitat degradation for marine life. This issue was highlighted by the...
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Keywords: Anthropogenic noise, Deafen, Ear bones, Habitat degredation, Marine life, Seismic surveys, Underwater human activities, Whales