Sound & Marine Mammals

Models

Effects of Sound on the Marine Environment (ESME)
ESME is an ONR Research Program focused on producing a model of animal response to the sound fields produced by human activities.

3MB (Marine Mammal Motion and Behavior) Software Package
( Dorian Houser , National Marine Mammal Foundation, San Diego, USA)

Southern California Bight Model Site

References

Noise and the Effects on Marine Mammals, a very useful acoustics handbook from JASCO Applied Sciences.

Sounds

Watkins Marine Mammal Sound Database
"Whale Songs"

Recording of humpback whales
(Scott Murray, Center for Neuroscience, UC Davis, Davis CA, USA)

• 48000 kHz
  humpback 1 (25 mbytes)
  humpback 2 (80 mbytes)
• 8000 kHz
  humpback 1 (2 mbytes)
  humpback 2 (8 mbytes)

Summary of software available for handling acoustic data (spectrograms, mixers, etc.)

Related marine mammal sites

(focusing on the acoustics or facts about whale species and primarily non-commercial)

• American Cetacean Society
• Animal Bioacoustics (Acoustical Society of America)
• Center for Whale Research
• Center for Whale Research - Old site
• Centro Interdisciplinare di Bioacustica e Ricerche Ambientali (Interdisciplinary Center for Bioacoustics and Environmental Research) Pavia, Italy
• Grand Manan Whale and Seabird Research Station
• Hawaii Whale Research Foundation
• Marine Mammals, Alaska Dept. of Fish and Game
• National Sound Archive of the British Library
• New Bedford Whaling Museum
• NOAA Ocean Today
• Office of Naval Research Marine Mammal Science
• Right Whale Tracking Project (Dalhousie University)
• Robots for Whales at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
• SIO Whale Acoustic Lab
• The Whale Center of New England
• Vancouver Aquarium
• VENTS Program marine mammal spectrograms and sounds NOAA's National Marine Mammal Laboratory
• Watkins Marine Mammal Sound Database
• Whale Photographs
• Whale Web