Acoustic Monitoring

The acoustics monitoring program is designed to measure underwater ambient and industrial noise levels, and to detect and classify species of vocalizing marine mammals over a wide area of the eastern Chukchi Sea and in the vicinity of the main study area. Acoustic recorders using hydrophones (underwater microphones) are deployed on the seabed throughout the study areas. Some are seasonal and only remain in place during the summer months, while others record through the winter when ice covers the sea. The detections of calls from several marine mammal species, including several ice seals, walruses, belugas, bowheads, grey whales, fin whales, minke whales and killer whales, are used to determine their migration patterns and migration timing.

Acoustic Buoy 2012

Additional 2012 acoustic buoy information will be available, please check back later.

David Hannay
Principal Investigator, JASCO

4464 Markham St Ste 2101
Victoria, BC V8Z7X8
250-483-3300
david.hannay@jasco.com

Acoustic Buoy 2011

Additional 2011 acoustic buoy information will be available, please check back later.

David Hannay
Principal Investigator, JASCO

4464 Markham St Ste 2101
Victoria, BC V8Z7X8
250-483-3300
david.hannay@jasco.com

Acoustic Buoy 2010

Additional 2010 acoustic buoy information will be available, please check back later.

David Hannay
Principal Investigator, JASCO

4464 Markham St Ste 2101
Victoria, BC V8Z7X8
250-483-3300
david.hannay@jasco.com

Acoustic Buoy 2009

Additional 2009 acoustic buoy information will be available, please check back later.

David Hannay
Principal Investigator, JASCO

4464 Markham St Ste 2101
Victoria, BC V8Z7X8
250-483-3300
david.hannay@jasco.com

Acoustic Buoy 2008

Additional 2008 acoustic buoy information will be available, please check back later.

David Hannay
Principal Investigator, JASCO

4464 Markham St Ste 2101
Victoria, BC V8Z7X8
250-483-3300
david.hannay@jasco.com

Christopher Clark, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator
Cornell University
Bioacoustics Research Program

159 Sapsucker Woods Rd
Ithaca, NY 14850
607-254-2405
cwc2@cornell.edu