Sound and 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)

AGORA (Airgun Array Signature Model in a zip file)
( H. Ozkan Sertlek, University of Leiden, The Netherlands

Southern California Bight Model Site

Sounds

"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.)

Conferences

For Meetings, see International Bioacoustics Council (IBAC) Calender

Related 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

• 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

• Whale Photographs

• Whale Web