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22 05, 2017

Moving slowly in all the right places – killer whales and reduction of noise effects

By Cormac Booth|2017-05-22T13:57:11+00:00May 22nd, 2017|Categories: News, SMRUC North America|Tags: acoustics, Killer whale, Mitigation, noise, Ocean noise, Salish Sea, shipping noise, underwater noise|0 Comments

This summer a voluntary commercial vessel slowdown trial is planned to take place in the core summer habitat of Southern Resident killer whales. SMRU Consulting North America have played a significant role in the development and implementation of this exciting noise mitigation focused trial which is being led by Vancouver Fraser Port Authority’s ECHO Program. [...]

Grey whales change their calls to be heard over noise

By Rachael Sinclair|2016-11-21T12:43:13+00:00November 21st, 2016|Categories: News, Publications|Tags: drilling noise, grey whale, lombard effect, noise, oil and gas, seismic, shipping, shipping noise, sonar, vocalisations, whales|0 Comments

A new paper has just been published on the vocal responses of grey whales to underwater noise. […]

Shipping noise impacts whale communication

By Rachael Sinclair|2019-03-22T12:14:59+00:00June 28th, 2016|Categories: Publications|Tags: communication, right whale, shipping noise, vocalisation|0 Comments

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. […]