An Overview of Fixed Passive Acoustic Observation Methods for Cetaceans

By David K. Mellinger, Kathleen M. Stafford, S. Moore, R. Dziak, H. Matsumoto. 2007

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Assessing the performance of a semi‐automated acoustic monitoring system for primates (2015, background): “It has been widely applied for monitoring marine mammals (Mellinger et al. 2007) and fish (Gannon 2008), since acoustic signals propagate efficiently in water and visual surveys are problematic or expensive (Marques et al. 2013).”
Estimating animal population density using passive acoustics (2012, background): “Mellinger et al. (2007) review the use of acoustic methods to gather information about cetacean species, listing abundance estimation as a key area of future development.”
Whales from space: Four mysticete species described using new VHR satellite imagery (2018, background): “Some mysticete species inhabit remote areas not easily accessed by boat or plane (Nieukirk et al. 2004, Mellinger et al. 2007), such as Omura’s whales (B. omurai) north of Madagascar (Cerchio et al. 2015) and sei whales (B. borealis) off the southern Chilean coast (Häussermann et al. 2017).”
Studying the behaviour and sensory ecology of marine mammals using acoustic recording tags: a review (2009, background): “Such data are needed for the design of acoustic surveys, monitoring and mitigation (Barlow & Gisiner 2006, Akamatsu et al. 2007, Mellinger et al. 2007).”
Marine mammal conservation: over the horizon (2021, background): “Hydrophones and recorders are commonly packaged as free-standing units and left alone in the water to record for days, months or longer and can be stationed at any depth by using acoustic release mechanisms (Mellinger et al. 2007).”
An update to the methods in Endangered Species Research 2011 paper "Estimating North Pacific right whale Eubalaena japonica density using passive acoustic cue counting" (2011, methodology): “In the last few years, passive acoustic surveying has been put forward as a viable option for estimating cetacean density (Mellinger et al. 2007b).”
Detecting bird sounds in a complex acoustic environment and application to bioacoustic monitoring (2010, background): “…have also been subject to efforts in automated recognition, for example, crickets and grasshoppers (Schwenker et al., 2003; Farr and Chesmore, 2007), marine mammals like whales and dolphins (Deecke et al., 1999; Brown and Miller, 2007; Mellinger et al., 2007), frogs and bats ([Obrist et al., 2004).”