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Impacts of marine acoustic technology on the Antarctic environment.

2002
Open Access Report

SCAR ad hoc group on marine acoustic technology and the environment

SCAR (Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research),

Equipment using sound waves to investigate the sea bed and the water column are essential to the understanding of the Antarctic marine environment. At the same...
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Keywords: Antarctic, Marine acoustic technology

Characteristics of Sounds Emitted During High-Resolution Marine Geophysical Surveys

2016
Open Access Report

OCS Study BOEM

Crocker S.E. and Fratantonio, F.D.

Scientific questions regarding the impact of noise in the marine environment have resulted in an increasing number of regulatory requirements and precautionary mitigation strategies to reduce...
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Keywords: Airguns, Beam Pattern, Beamwidth, Boomers, Chirp Profilers, Geophysical Survey Systems, Marine Noise, Multibeam Bathymetric Echosounders, Side-Scan Sonars, Sparkers

Review and Assessment of Underwater Sound Produced from Oil and Gas Sound Activities and Potential Reporting Requirements under the Marine Strategy Framework Directive.

2011
Open Access Report

Genesis Oil and Gas Consultants

Genesis

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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Keywords: Marine strategy framework, Oil and gas activities, Underwater sound

Guidance for assessing the significance of noise disturbance against Conservation Objectives of harbour porpoise SACs

2020
Open Access Guidance notes

Joint Nature Conservation Committee

JNCC (Joint Nature Conservation Committee),

This guidance document lays out JNCC, Natural England and DAERA’s advice on the assessment of significant disturbance in UK Special Areas of Conservation (SACs) for harbour...
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Keywords: Assessment, Guidance, Harbour porpoise, Noise disturbance

Underwater Sound Modelling of Low Energy Geophysical Equipment Operations.

2013
Open Access Report

JASCO Applied Sciences

Zykov, M. M.

An acoustic modeling study was performed to estimate source levels, beam configuration, and sound exposure levels from a set of low energy equipment used in geophysical...
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Keywords: Geophysical equipment, Low energy, Modeling, Underwater

Input to revision of guidelines regarding underwater noise from oil and gas activities – effets on marine mammals and mitigation measures.

2016
Open Access Report

Danish Centre for Environment and Energy

Tougaard, J.,

Seismic surveys in connection to oil and gas activities have the potential to disturb and injure marine organisms, due to the high sound pressures generated by...
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Keywords: Guidelines, Marine mammals, Mitigation, Oil and gas, Underwater noise

Cetacean stock assessments in relation to exploration and production industry activity and other human pressures: Review and data needs

2011
Open Access Peer Reviewed Publication

Aquatic Mammals

Thomsen, F., McCully, S., Weiss, L., Wood, D. et al.

The impacts of manmade underwater sound on cetaceans have become an important environmental issue. A number of studies have documented effects on individuals such as behavioural...
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Keywords: Cetacea, Data needs, Human pressures, Stock assessments