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Pay-walled Journal Article

Marine Environmental Research

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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Pay-walled Peer Reviewed Publication

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

As part of a general study of underwater industrial noises and their effects on bowhead whales, sounds from drilling and dredging operations were measured in the...
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Open Access Report

Genesis Oil and Gas Consultants

Underwater sound and the potential impacts on marine life has received increased attention in recent years, with measures to assess underwater sound having been included within...
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Open Access Journal Article

Marine Fisheries Review

Anthropogenic noise has been identified as a major threat for the recovery of the endangered Cook Inlet beluga, Delphinapterus leucas, population, but little is known about...
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Pay-walled Peer Reviewed Publication

Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management

For dredge operations, a risk-based approach has been proposed for identifying, assessing, and managing risks of low-frequency underwater sounds produced from anthropogenic activities; however, specific details...
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Open Access Report

LGL Ecological Research Associates Inc.

This volume is a review of literature concerning the effects of man-made noise on marine mammals....
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Pay-walled Journal Article

Third Specialty Conference on Dredgin and Dredge Material Disposal

Potential effects of underwater noise produced by dredging operations on a variety of organisms have emerged as a concern of environmental agencies. For example, it has...
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Open Access Report

Final Report

During the exploration, development, production and decommissioning phases of offshore oil and gas reserves these activities contribute to the noise levels in the oceans, estuaries and...
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Open Access Report

Final Report

Overview of the power spectrum model of masking, hearing charactersitics relevant to masking and modelling aspects of masking underwater....
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Open Access Peer Reviewed Publication

Marine Pollution Bulletin

Underwater noise, whether of natural or anthropogenic origin, has the ability to interfere with the way in which marine mammals receive acoustic signals (i.e., for communication,...
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