Listening in the Ocean

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Introduction: Listening in the Ocean

   • Whitlow W. L. Au, Marc O. Lammers

   Pages 1-19

3. A Review of Blue Whale Studies from HARUphones in the Pacific

   • Kathleen M. Stafford

   Pages 21-33

4. Long-Term Monitoring of Cetaceans Using Autonomous Acoustic Recording Packages

   • Sean M. Wiggins, John A. Hildebrand

   Pages 35-59

5. From Shrimp to Whales: Biological Applications of Passive Acoustic Monitoring on a Remote Pacific Coral Reef

   • Marc O. Lammers, Lisa M. Munger

   Pages 61-81

6. Studying the Biosonar Activities of Deep Diving Odontocetes in Hawaii and Other Western Pacific Locations

   • Whitlow W. L. Au, Giacomo Giorli

   Pages 83-115

7. Environmental Acoustic Recording System (EARS) in the Gulf of Mexico

   • George E. Ioup, Juliette W. Ioup, Natalia A. Sidorovskaia, Christopher O. Tiemann, Stan A. Kuczaj, Azmy S. Ackleh et al.

   Pages 117-162

8. Listening to Echolocation Clicks with PODs

   • Nick Tregenza, Steve Dawson, Will Rayment, Ursula Verfuss

   Pages 163-206

9. PALAOA: The Perennial Acoustic Observatory in the Antarctic Ocean—Real-Time Eavesdropping on the Antarctic Underwater Soundscape

   • Holger Klinck, Lars Kindermann, Olaf Boebel

   Pages 207-219

10. Listening for Whales at the Station ALOHA Cabled Observatory

    • Julie N. Oswald, Helen Ou, Whitlow W. L. Au, Bruce M. Howe, Fred Duennebier

    Pages 221-237

11. Findings from U.S. Navy Hydrophone Ranges

    • David Moretti, Ronald Morrissey, Susan Jarvis, Jessica Shaffer

    Pages 239-256

12. Pinniped Sounds in the Polar Oceans

    • Jennifer L. Miksis-Olds, Ilse C. Van Opzeeland, Sofie M. Van Parijs, Joshua Jones

    Pages 257-308

13. Listening in the Ocean: New Discoveries and Insights on Marine Life from Autonomous Passive Acoustic Recorders

    • David Mann, James Locascio, Carrie Wall

    Pages 309-324

14. Passive Acoustic Monitoring in Benthic Marine Crustaceans: A New Research Frontier

    • Erica Staaterman

    Pages 325-333

15. A Multiplatform Ultrasonic Event Recorder for Tagging, Towing, and Stationed Monitoring of Odontocetes

    • Tomonari Akamatsu

    Pages 335-357

16. Signal Processing

    • David K. Mellinger, Marie A. Roch, Eva-Marie Nosal, Holger Klinck

    Pages 359-409

17. Back Matter

    Pages 411-416

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This title brings to light the discoveries and insights into the lives of many marine species made possible over the last decade by passive acoustic recorders (PAR). Pop-ups, ARF, HARP, EAR, Bprobe, C-POD Atag, and Dtag are the acronyms of some of the many PARs that have changed our understanding of how marine animals live and strive in the ocean. Various types of PARs are used by different investigators in different areas of the world. These recorders have accumulated copious amounts of very important data, unveiling previously unknown information about large marine animals. Temporal, seasonal and spatial distribution patterns have been uncovered for many marine species. There have been many discoveries, new understandings and insights into how these animals live in and utilize the ocean and the importance of acoustics in their lives. Listening Within the Ocean summarizes these important discoveries, providing both a valuable resource for researchers and enjoyable reading for non-professionals interested in marine life.

• Acoustic Detection of Marine Mammals
• Acoustic Tracking of Marine Mammals
• Marine Bioacoustics
• Marine Mammal Sounds
• PAR
• Passive Acoustics Recorders
• Signal processing of Marine Mammal Sounds
• marine and freshwater sciences

“This book will prove very valuable to the beginning engineers, researchers and graduate students to survey the field of marine acoustics open to them and deciding on which fields to pursue. chapter includes a detailed list of reference that the investigator can use to gain detailed knowledge of either the results or the techniques used. … chapters convey both the challenges of the future research in the field and the knowledge of the marine soundscape of the world … .” (Arindam Ghosh, Noise Control Engineering Journal, Vol. 65 (2), March-April, 2017)

• Marine Mammal Research Program, Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, Kaneohe, USA

  Whitlow W. L. Au

• Hawaii Inst of Marine Biology, Kaneohe, USA

  Marc O. Lammers

Whitlow W. L. Au is a fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, its past president and its first silver medal recipient for Animal Bioacoustics. Dr. Au is the author of "The Sonar of Dolphins" (Springer-Verlag, 1993), senior author of "Principles of Marine Bioacoustics" (with Mardi Hastings, Springer, 2008), and senior editor of "Hearing in Whales and Dolphins" (with Arthur Popper and Richard Fay, Springer-Verlag, 2000).

Marc O. Lammers is the co-inventor of the Ecological Acoustic Recorder and has wide experience in bioacoustics, working with dolphins and whales. He is the chair of the Research Committee, Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary (HIHWNMS) Advisory Council.

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