Autonomous Real-time Marine Mammal Detections
Skidaway Institute of Oceanography and University of South Carolina
Coastal Georgia, Winter 2023-2024
Study objectives
A Slocum G3 glider was deployed off the coast of Georgia to conduct surveys for baleen whales, including the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale.
Principal Investigators: Erin Meyer-Gutbrod (University of South Carolina) and Catherine Edwards (Skidaway Institute of Oceanography)
Analysts: Erin Meyer-Gutbrod, Amadi Afua Sefah-Twerefour, Abigail Kreuser, Allie Peterson (University of South Carolina)
Platform location:
Analyst-reviewed species occurrence maps:
Daily analyst review:
| | Detected |
| Possibly detected |
| Not detected |
Time series:
Diel plot:
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 by Karen Dreger (SKIO). Funding for this work was provided by the Tides Foundation.
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