Acoustical oceanography and DEIMOS Where are the Fish Acoustical oceanography and DEIMOS
Sound levels 20 db quiet bedroom 40 db library 60 db conversational speech 90 db street traffic 130 db jet engine 140+ db pain threshold
Sound in the Ocean Water is 800 times more dense that air—so sound is intensified in ocean environments
DEIMOS and MARS
Deep Echo-Integrating Marine Observatory System (DEIMOS)
Monterey Accelerated Research System (MARS)
DEIMOS Transducer
DEIMOS before deployment
Deloyment
Fisheries Acoustics Uses sound to detect, map, and count aquatic species Animals in the water are complicated scatterers of sound due to their shape, composition, curvature, and behavior.
Fish finder screen
Acoustical analysis from bottom up
Fish Swim Bladder reflects backscatter
Do your own analysis Look at a data stream from the DEIMOS Look for patterns and shapes in data What do you think you are looking at? What do you notice about the picture?
Daily cycles
Density of Species Richer colors=Dense marine organisms Cooler colors=Less dense organisms
Possible species
More species
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