We’re excited to announce the release of our report “Understanding the current state of autonomous technologies to improve/expand observation and detection of marine species” – which is now publicly available. This was a collaborate project with Akvaplan-niva, British Antarctic Survey, CREEM, NORUT, Seiche Ltd and SMRU and it follows on from the recent release of another [...]
We’re delighted to announce we’ve updated the SMRU Consulting website! […]
We’re delighted to announce the release of a new report, where we used the Interim Population Consequences of Disturbance (iPCoD) model to investigate the potential ‘aggregate effects’ that could arise from the currently planned 12 years of English wind farm construction on the North Sea harbour porpoise population. […]
We are proud to announce the release of our report entitled “Low visibility real-time monitoring techniques review”. This was a collaborate project with SMRU, Marine Ecological Research Ltd, CREEM, Ocean Environmental Consulting, Alfred-Wegener-Institut and Prove Systems Ltd. […]
Exciting news! Following the SCANS III surveys conducted last year, the eagerly anticipated abundance and density estimates are now available! […]
We all know humpback whales produce amazing songs that can be heard for miles, but new research has shown that during their migration from the breeding grounds to feeding areas, calves make low level vocalisations – a new paper theorises the reasons for these quiet sounds. […]
We’re delighted to announce we’ve developed our new PCoD website and new information about the ONR funded PCoD+ project (see links at the bottom)! […]
Last week our colleagues at SMRU and PAMGuard published a paper on an approach they developed to successfully find and track harbour porpoise in tidally active areas. Their paper entitled Passive acoustic methods for fine-scale tracking of harbour porpoise in tidal rapids was published in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. […]
Announcing the release of the Endangered Species Research special-themed issue on the effects of Deepwater Horizon. We are extremely proud to have worked on this as part of a collaborate effort with CREEM, SMRU and NOAA. […]
A fascinating new paper has just been published which examines how stress hormones are measured in seals. […]
A really interesting new study uses anti-predator responses to create a relative index of disturbance levels to assess the disturbance to sperm whales caused by sonar. […]
A new paper has just been published on the vocal responses of grey whales to underwater noise. […]
One of the products of two international Fisheries and Oceans Canada-led workshops to develop “a risk-based framework for assessing cumulative impacts of marine development projects” has just been published. […]
We are delighted to announce the release of a new report exploring how the interim PCoD framework could be adapted to assess the effects of disturbance on the critically endangered Cook Inlet beluga whale population! […]
We are happy to announce the release of a new report exploring how noise reduction methods might change the risk of impact associated with pile driving on the North Sea harbour porpoise population. […]
An exciting new paper has been published, from our friends at the Dutch organisation TNO – exploring how to get measurements of ambient (and other) noise from DTAGs. […]
Another really interesting paper on density modelling has just been published, this time focusing on harbour porpoise in the North Sea. […]
A new study is published on polar bear behaviour near ice breaker operations. Today is Arctic Sea Ice Day. When we think of the Arctic the polar bear is one of the first species we think of. It is an iconic Arctic species but one that is threatened by sea ice loss. The Arctic has experienced [...]
A really interesting new paper has been published that looks at the potential for underwater noise to interfere with communication between mother-calf pairs of North Atlantic right whales. […]
Announcing the release of a new report which compares the two main models for modelling population consequences of noise on harbour porpoises – the DEPONS and Interim PCOD models! […]
