North Atlantic Right Whale (Eubalaena glacialis) Passive Acoustic Detections Report: December 2022 – May 2023

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• Personal Author:
  Merkle, Shannon ; Pegg, Nicole ; Garrison, Lance P. ; Soldevilla, Melissa S.
• Corporate Authors:
  Southeast Fisheries Science Center (U.S.) ; Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies (Key Biscayne, Fla.)
• NOAA Program & Office:
  NMFS (National Marine Fisheries Service) ; SEFSC (Southeast Fisheries Science Center) ; CIMAS (Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies)
• Description:
  Right whales produce a variety of acoustic signals, including stereotyped, frequency modulated upsweep calls, gunshot calls, variable calls, and moans (Parks et al., 2005, Parks et al., 2019a), which can be identified to species level by trained analysts. To further explore the seasonal movements and distribution of migrating and calving right whales and the soundscapes they inhabit, we deployed long-term passive acoustic recorders at 8 coastal sites from North Carolina to Florida and evaluated recordings for the presence of North Atlantic right whale upcalls.
• Keywords:
  Animal Communication Migration Monitoring Northern Right Whale Underwater Acoustics Animal Communication Northern Right Whale Underwater Acoustics
• Series:
  Southeast Fisheries Science Center reference document   MMTD-2025-06
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.25923/gmdz-xa72
• Format:
  pdf
• Document Type:
  Reference Document
• Place as Subject:
  Atlantic Coast (South Atlantic States)
• License:
  https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
• Rights Information:
  CC0 Public Domain
• Compliance:
  Submitted
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:5439ca55e89354f45b63595a58ce1ab122ae8264afcbf44c0b8deae103a4396704e2deac583b5e2de79f0154f08f1fa4da9c42dddb3670ea8e6cd6a7e256e401
• Download URL:
  https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/72135/noaa_72135_DS1.pdf
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