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Seismic Surveys Negatively Affect Humpback Whale Singing Activity off Northern Angola

2014
Open Access Peer Reviewed Publication

PLOS ONE

Cerchio, S., Strindberg, S., Collings, t., Bennett, C. and Rosenbaum, H.

Passive acoustic monitoring was used to document the presence of singing humpback whales off the coast of Northern Angola, and opportunistically test for the effect of...
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Keywords: Behavious, Generalised additive mixed effects model, Humpback whale, Seismic survey, Song

Blue Whales Respond to Anthropogenic Noise

2012
Open Access Peer Reviewed Publication

PLOS ONE

Melcón , M. L., Cummins, A. J., Kerosky, S. M., Roche, L. K., Wiggins, S. M., Hildebrand, J. A.

Anthropogenic noise may significantly impact exposed marine mammals. This work studied the vocalization response of endangered blue whales to anthropogenic noise sources in the mid-frequency range...
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Keywords: Antropogenic noise, Blue whale, Passive acoustic monitoring, Song

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