Autonomous Real-time Marine Mammal Detections

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution


Central Gulf of Maine, Spring-Summer 2024


Study objectives

A Slocum G3 glider was deployed east of Cape Cod, Massachussets to conduct surveys for tagged baleen whales, including the seriously endangered North Atlantic right whale, north of Georges Bank in the Central Gulf of Maine.

Principal Investigators: Sofie Van Parijs, Genevieve Davis (NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center) and Mark Baumgartner (WHOI)

Analysts: Julianne Wilder







Platform location:




Analyst-reviewed species occurrence maps:




Daily analyst review:

DateSei whaleFin whaleRight whaleHumpback whale
05/01/2024
04/30/2024
04/29/2024
04/28/2024
04/27/2024
04/26/2024
04/25/2024
04/24/2024
04/23/2024
04/22/2024
04/21/2024
04/20/2024
04/19/2024
04/18/2024
04/17/2024
04/16/2024
04/15/2024
04/14/2024
04/13/2024
04/12/2024
04/11/2024

Detected
Possibly detected
Not detected


Time series:




Diel plot:




Recent bacgkground noise:




Oceanographic observations:




Links to detailed information:

Automated detection data

DMON/LFDCS Diagnostics

Platform diagnostics





Sounds

What types of sounds are we monitoring? Find examples of the sounds right, fin, sei and humpback whales make here.


Questions

Please email Mark Baumgartner at mbaumgartner@whoi.edu. For a general desciption of the detection system and the autonomous platforms, visit dcs.whoi.edu.


Acknowledgements

The Slocum glider was prepared and deployed Mackenzie Meier and Mark Baumgartner (WHOI).


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