• Continuous Active Sonar's Impact on Killer Whales

  • Oct 15 2024
  • Length: 13 mins
  • Podcast

Continuous Active Sonar's Impact on Killer Whales

  • Summary

  • When pulsed active sonar was found to cause mass strandings of whales, researchers turned to the quieter continuous active sonar for underwater monitoring. In this episode, Brian K. Branstetter (Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command Pacific) shares his work to find out how this sonar affects killer whales.

    Associated paper: Brian K. Branstetter, Michael Felice, Todd Robeck, Marla M. Holt, and E. Elizabeth Henderson. "Masking in continuous sonar noise." J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 156 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0025855.

    Read more from The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (JASA).
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    Music Credit: Min 2019 by minwbu from Pixabay.

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