Autonomous Real-time Marine Mammal Detections

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution


Roseway Basin, Southwestern Scotian Shelf, Canada, Summer 2015


Study objectives

A Slocum glider was deployed in Roseway Basin on the southwestern Scotian Shelf to locate and study the highly endangered North Atlantic right whale in advance of a survey cruise to the region. The objectives of the cruise are to photo identify and biopsy right whales. A WHOI glider is being used as a reconnaissance tool to improve the efficiency of locating and studying whales, allowing researchers to spend less time searching for the whales and more time studying them.

Principal Investigators: Kim Davies, Chris Taggart, Richard Davis (Dalhousie University), Moira Brown (New England Aquarium), and Mark Baumgartner (WHOI)

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Platform we04


Platform location:




Daily analyst review:

Date	Sei whale	Fin whale	Right whale	Humpback whale
09/04/2015
09/03/2015
09/02/2015
09/01/2015
08/31/2015
08/30/2015
08/29/2015
08/28/2015
08/27/2015
08/26/2015
08/25/2015
08/24/2015
08/23/2015
08/22/2015
08/21/2015
08/20/2015
08/19/2015
08/18/2015
08/17/2015
08/16/2015
08/15/2015
08/14/2015
08/13/2015
08/12/2015
08/11/2015
08/10/2015
08/09/2015
08/08/2015
08/07/2015
08/06/2015
08/05/2015
08/04/2015
08/03/2015
08/02/2015
08/01/2015
07/31/2015
07/30/2015
07/29/2015
07/28/2015

	Detected
	Possibly detected
	Not detected

Analyst-reviewed species occurrence maps:




Analyst-reviewed time series:




Analyst-reviewed diel plot:




Links to detailed information for platform we04:

Automated detection data

DMON/LFDCS diagnostics

Platform diagnostics

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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 WHOI glider was expertly prepared by Ben Hodges (WHOI) and deployed by Adam Comeau (Dalhousie University). Support for the deployment and operation of the gliders was provided by the Canadian Habitat Stewardship Program for Species at Risk and the Marine Environmental Observation Prediction and Response Network (MEOPAR) Whales, Habitat and Listening Experiment (WHaLE). 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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