By Chloe Malinka We’d like to let you know about a new publication, authored by researchers from SMRU Consulting, the Sea Mammal Research Unit, and a couple of PAMGuard programmers. Our paper presents findings from the first in-situ passive acoustic monitoring array for marine mammals at an operational tidal turbine in Ramsey Sound, Wales, UK. This post [...]
Last year, we announced the release of our report exploring the viability of Passive Acoustic Monitoring (PAM) for long term monitoring, we are now pleased to announce that the PAM power analysis simulation tool we developed as part of this work has now been made available online! […]
We’re delighted to announce the release of a new report exploring the viability of Passive Acoustic Monitoring (PAM) for long term monitoring! […]
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. […]
In January the Annex IV expert forum met to discuss the challenges associated with the environmental monitoring around tidal turbines. The video can be viewed below. […]
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. […]
Last week was Ocean Noise Week at NOAA. NOAA and the US Office of National Marine Sanctuaries have listed ocean noise as a national issue -an issue that affects the numerous marine sanctuaries in US waters. […]
This week we saw some really uplifting news in the whale world. The US government announced that they were removing almost all of the world’s humpback whale populations from the endangered species list. To be precise NOAA Fisheries stated in a press release on September 6th that humpback whales in 9 of 14 newly identified distinct populations [...]
We are thrilled to launch the first of our live passive acoustic monitoring systems, the upgraded Lime Kiln Hydrophone Station is now live streaming around the world! […]
We are proud to announce the release of a new report on the innovative new technology we have developed and tested for the fine scale underwater movements of marine mammals in the vicinity of marine tidal energy devices. […]
Here’s a cool new paper by scientists at the Scottish Association for Marine Science on how porpoise use tidal stream habitats. […]
Our sister company SA Instrumentation is featured in a new documentary on Asia’s History Channel called “Tracking Asia’s Fish Bombers”, which features the Decimus system to detect fish bombs. […]
SMRU Consultings Ursula Verfuss has co-authored another paper that is now available online. The paper is entitled: Diel and seasonal patterns in acoustic presence and foraging behaviour of free-ranging harbour porpoises. This links nicely to our last blog on “Listening to Echolocation Clicks with PODs” and is a great example of how echolocation behaviour collected from PODs can be interpreted. [...]
We are proud to announce the publication of a new book entitled: Listening in the Ocean by Whitlow Au and Marc Lammers- in which our own Dr Ursula Verfuss co-authored the chapter: Listening to Echolocation Clicks with PODs. […]
This blog post is part of SMRU Consulting’s #ThrowbackThursday (#TBT) series. On Thursdays we’re going to posting about projects from way back when, many of which are part of developments that are consented or up and running. This #TBT blog is about our development of a real-time monitoring buoy to provide live detections of dolphins and porpoises during a port construction [...]
We’re delighted that our own Cormac Booth has a chapter called “Challenge of Using Passive Acoustic Monitoring in High-Energy Environments: UK Tidal Environments and Other Case Studies” published in the new book: The Effects of Noise on Aquatic Life II. […]
This blog post is part of SMRU Consulting’s #ThrowbackThursday (#TBT) series. We’re going to posting about projects from way back when, many of which are part of developments that are consented or up and running. This #TBT blog is about our noise monitoring and mitigation work conducted during the construction of the new Forth Road Bridge. […]
This blog post is part of SMRU Consultings #ThrowbackThursday (#TBT) series. Every Thursday we’re going to posting about projects from way back when, many of which are part of developments that are consented or up and running. This #TBT blog is about our C-POD study conducted at the Sizewell Nuclear power plant site in Suffolk. […]
Passive Acoustic Monitoring (PAM) can be a great tool to monitor marine mammal presence over wide areas and long time periods. However, there can be large costs associated with retrieving and replacing the recorders – for example, those deployed offshore or in dynamic environments may require significant time, specialist vessels and personnel in order to retrieve and [...]
