Autonomous Real-time Marine Mammal Detections

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution


New England Outer Continental Shelf, Spring-Summer 2023


Study objectives

A Slocum G3 glider was deployed south of Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts on April 10, 2023 to conduct a survey of the outer contintental shelf near the New York shipping lanes for baleen whales, including the seriously endangered North Atlantic right whale.

Principal Investigators: Danielle Cholewiak (NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center) and Mark Baumgartner (WHOI)

Analysts: Julianne Wilder (NOAA NEFSC)

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Platform location:




Analyst-reviewed species occurrence maps:




Daily analyst review:

Date	Sei whale	Fin whale	Right whale	Humpback whale
04/19/2023
04/18/2023
04/17/2023
04/16/2023
04/15/2023
04/14/2023
04/13/2023
04/12/2023
04/11/2023
04/10/2023

	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

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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 robots4whales.whoi.edu.


Acknowledgements

The Slocum glider was prepared, deployed and piloted by Mark Baumgartner.


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