Major Studies and Reports

• Marine Mammal Populations and Ocean Noise: Determining When Noise Causes Biologically Significant Effects (NAS 2005)



• Ocean Noise and Marine Mammals (NAS 2003)



• Marine Mammals and Low-Frequency Sound: progress since 1994 (NAS 2000)



• Low-Frequency Noise and Marine Mammals: Current Knowledge and Research Needs (NAS 1994)

Sperm Whale Seismic Study Reports

• SWSS Year 1 Annual Report



• SWSS Year 2 Annual Report



• SWSS S-tag 2004 Cruise Report



• SWSS MPS 2004 Cruise


• Presentation by the Noise Exposure Criteria Group to the Advisory Committee on Acoustic Impacts on Marine Mammals (April 28-30, 2004)



• Geological and Geophysical Exploration for Mineral Resources on the Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf, Final Programmatic Environmental Assessment (Minerals management Service 2004)



• Report of the Ad-hoc Group on the Impact of Sonar on Cetaceans and Fish (AGISC) , ICES CM 2005/ACE: 01



• Mitigation of Seismic Noise in the Marine Environment, Statement of Canadian Practice, (Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Feb. 22, 2005)



• Western Gray Whale Protection Plan: A Framework For Monitoring And Mitigation Measures Related To Sakhalin Energy Oil And Gas Operations On The Northeast Coast Of Sakhalin Island, Russia (Sakhalin Energy Investment Company Limited ,March 2002)



• Guidelines for Minimising Acoustic Disturbance to Marine Mammals from Seismic Surveys, Joint Nature Conservation Committee (UK 2010)



• Recommendation 2.7: Man Made Noise, Agreement on the Conservation of Cetaceans of the Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea and Contiguous Atlantic Area



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• Acoustic Ecology Institute, Recent Research



• Underwater noise: A harmful unregulated form of pollution IFAW and NRDC (November 2004)