Autonomous Real-time Marine Mammal Detections

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution


Halifax Line, Scotian Shelf, Canada, Summer/Fall 2015


Study objectives

An Ocean Tracking Network (OTN) Slocum glider was deployed on the Halifax Line on the Scotian Shelf to locate and study the highly endangered North Atlantic right whale as part of the Marine Environmental Observation Prediction and Response Network (MEOPAR) Whales, Habitat and Listening Experiment (WHaLE).

Principal Investigators: Kim Davies, Chris Taggart, Richard Davis (Dalhousie University), and Mark Baumgartner (WHOI)




Platform otn200


Platform location:




Daily analyst review:

DateSei whaleFin whaleRight whaleHumpback whale
10/04/2015
10/03/2015
10/02/2015
10/01/2015
09/30/2015
09/29/2015
09/28/2015
09/27/2015
09/26/2015
09/25/2015
09/24/2015
09/23/2015
09/22/2015
09/21/2015
09/20/2015
09/19/2015
09/18/2015
09/17/2015
09/16/2015
09/15/2015
09/14/2015
09/13/2015
09/12/2015
09/11/2015
09/10/2015

Detected
Possibly detected
Not detected


Analyst-reviewed species occurrence maps:




Analyst-reviewed time series:




Analyst-reviewed diel plot:




Links to detailed information for platform otn200:

Automated detection data

DMON/LFDCS diagnostics

Platform diagnostics





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 OTN glider was prepared and deployed by Richard Davis, Adam Comeau, Brad Covey, Sue L'Orsa, Hansen Johnson, Kim Davies, and Chris Taggart (Dalhousie University). Support for the deployment and operation of the gliders through the Whales, Habitat and Listening Experiment (WHaLE) was provided by the Marine Environmental Observation Prediction and Response Network (MEOPAR). Support for the development, integration, and testing of the glider DMON/LFDCS was provided by the Office of Naval Research and the NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service Advanced Sampling Technologies Working Group in collaboration with the Northeast Fisheries Science Center's Passive Acoustics Research Group (leader: Sofie Van Parijs).


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