WHOI researchers initiate long-term sound study at Cape Wind site
Researchers from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute have begun a 2-3 year project that will monitor the soundscape at the Cape Wind site before, during, and after construction of the planned 130 wind...
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Puget Sound orcas face challenges from boat noise & a de-listing petition...
As the US Federal government takes up a petition calling for the removal of Puget Sound’s resident orcas from the Endangered Species list, a lack of funding at NOAA continues to hamper efforts to...
View ArticleQuiet ocean experiment
Boston’s WBUR recently interviewed Jesse Ausubel, of Rockefeller University and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, about an ambitious project dubbed the Quiet Ocean Experiment. The idea is to...
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Detailed new maps highlight excessive shipping noise in Puget Sound, BC coast
In the wake of NOAA’s large-scale ocean noise mapping project, two much more detailed studies from the Pacific Northwest have highlighted the likelihood that current shipping noise is already pushing...
View ArticleRI wind farm will avoid construction noise for right whale migration
Deepwater Wind, developers of a proposed 5-turbine wind farm off Block Island, Rhode Island, has agreed to refrain from pile driving for one month a year in order to minimize impacts on critically...
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New NMFS Navy “take” permits: outrageous or reasonable?
The release of Proposed Rules to govern US Navy training and testing operations in the waters of the Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico, Southern California, and Hawaii from 2014-2019 has put the National Marine...
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Yellowstone snowmobile plan finally getting off its merry-go-round?
It’s been a couple of years since we’ve checked in on the eternal Snowmobiles in Yellowstone debate, and in what’s sure to be a shock for those who’ve been following the issue since the Clinton...
View ArticleCalifornia regulators reject Navy training plans despite federal approvals
The California Coastal Commission has rejected the Navy’s 5-year plan for training and testing activities that recently received provisional approvals from the National Marine Fisheries Service. In a...
View ArticleWHOI researchers distill whale calls from seismic survey data
Researchers at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) have completed a proof of concept study that appears to be able to identify individual whale calls in the data collected by seismic surveys....
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Judge overturns snowmobile exemption to USFS Travel Management Rule
When the US Forest Service initiated far-reaching Travel Management planning in 2005, mandating that all National Forests analyze off-road vehicle use on their lands, and specify roads and trails where...
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2008 UK stranding linked to Navy exercises
On June 9, 2008, 26 common dolphins, 21 of them infants, stranded and died in river estuaries around Falmouth Bay, as several days of Naval exercises involving over 30 ships wound down (see AIEnews...
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Biologically rich areas off limits while Gulf seismic EIS is conducted
Thirty months after environmental groups sued to force ongoing seismic survey programs in the Gulf of Mexico to be subject to more robust compliance with the Marine Mammal Protection Act and Endangered...
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Blue, beaked whales stop foraging when exposed to sonar?
AEI lay summary of:Goldbogen JA, Southall BL, DeRuiter SL, Calambokidis J, Friedlaender AS, Hazen EL, Falcone EA, Schorr GS, Douglas A, Moretti DJ, Kyburg C, McKenna MF, Tyack PL. 2013 Blue whales...
View ArticleSOCAL begins 2013 behavioral response study
The 2013 field season of the 5-year Southern California Behavioral Response study is underway now. This research applies suction-cup tags to whales, which track the whales’ movements (dive patterns,...
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Crabs affected by shipping noise, too
Add crabs, and perhaps by extension other crustaceans, to the list of animals negatively affected by shipping noise in the world’s oceans. A new study has found that ship noise markedly changes some...
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NPS to study how soundscape quality affects park visitors
For over a decade, the National Park Service has been on the forefront of public lands agencies in addressing the role of sound and noise on both wildlife and park visitors. NPS’s Natural Sounds and...
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Powerful mapping sonar likely triggered Madagascar mass stranding
AEI lay summary of:Southall, B.L., Rowles, T., Gulland, F., Baird, R. W., and Jepson, P.D. 2013. Final report of the Independent Scientific Review Panel investigating potential contributing factors to...
View ArticleFirst ruling in new sonar challenges fails to limit huge take numbers
The first ruling is in from the latest round of legal challenges to Naval training permits, and it’s a split decision. You’ll need to click through to read the full post to get all the details, but...
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Ocean noise may disrupt larval development
AEI lay summary of:Natasha Aguilar de Soto, Natali Delorme, John Atkins, Sunkita Howard, James Williams, Mark Johnson. Anthropogenic noise causes body malformations and delays development in marine...
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New paper details the acoustic quality of critical whale habitats
AEI lay summary of:R. Williams, C.W. Clark, D. Ponirakis, and E. Ashe. Acoustic quality of critical habitats for three threatened whale populations. Animal Conservation (2013). Innovative research...
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