Establishing baselines for predicting change in ambient sound metrics, marine mammal, and vessel occurrence within a US offshore wind energy area

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ICES Journal of Marine Science

Van Parijs, S.M., DeAngelis, A. I., Aldrich, T. Gordon, R., Holdman, A., McCordic, J.A., Mouy, X., Rowell, T.J., Tennant, S., Westell, A., Davis, G.E.

Baseline Soundscape developed near offshore wind farm in New England along with accompanying population variation over calendar year.

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Keywords: Baseline, New England, Offshore wind, Soundscape

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