Research Summaries

Back Characterizing Soundscapes on the US West Coast

Fiscal Year 2018
Division Graduate School of Engineering & Applied Science
Department Oceanography
Investigator(s) Joseph, John E.
Sponsor Chief of Naval Operations (Navy)
Summary Beginning 2018, US Navy and NOAA will co-lead a program to characterize soundscapes within NOAA-managed National Marine Sanctuaries. Using passive acoustic recording systems, this program will measure and describe comparable soundscape qualities in up to seven sanctuaries and one Marine National Monument within the US National Marine Sanctuary (NMS) System. Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) will lead the west coast regional effort, working in collaboration with Channel Islands NMS, Monterey Bay NMS and Olympic Coast NMS. This effort will serve to support both NOAA and Navy in understanding and protecting acoustic habitats within the boundaries of these protected areas. A holistic sampling of the soundscape is planned to reflect the specific sampling needs (in space, time, and frequency) of each monitored sanctuary, including anthropogenic sound sources, natural abiotic sound sources, and biological sound sources relevant to each site. In this effort, metrics will be developed to characterize and compare soundscape components among the measured sites. Integration of acoustic metrics with other available data will be used to characterize habitat condition and species presence, as well as human activity levels, in proximity to recording locations.
Keywords acoustic monitoring ambient noise soundscapes
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