1. Georges Bank Gulf of Maine SBNMS Acoustic Research in the Stellwagen Bank NMS D. Wiley & L. Hatch Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary 175 Edward Foster Rd., Scituate, MA

2. Three Integrated Projects Autonomous Recording Units (ARUs) to monitor sound Collaboration with Cornell Univ. (C. Clark), Marine Acoustics Inc. (B. Ellison) & NMFS (R. Merrick & S. Van Parijs) DTAG to track whale behavior underwater Collaboration with WHOI (P. Tyack & M. Johnson), UNH (C. Ware), Duke U (A. Friedlaender), UH (A. Stimpert) & WCNE (M. Weinrich) Automatic Ident. Sys. (AIS) to monitor and track ships Collaboration with USCG-RD (D. Pietraszewski), NMFS (R. Merrick, D. Gouveia and G. Silber) & UNH (K. Schwehr)

3. perotsystems ® Noise Monitoring ARU Deployment Design 1/2005 – 1/2006 85% Coverage 85% Coverage Continuous recording from 5 to 1000Hz Capable of receiving whale calls between 5 to 10nm from units Deployment duration of 3 months – (total 12 months) Acoustic release

4. RWSAS vs Acoustic Comparison: March, 2006 Mar 30, 2006 Mar 24, 2006 Mar 2, 2006 116 total 127 total 1092 total 98 total 313 total 823 total

5. Figure credit: Dimitri Ponirakis, Bioacoustics Research Program, Cornell University Right whale up-call

6. Monitoring Vessel Traffic

9. Acoustic footprints of a (a) general cargo ship (b) NOAA research vessel at their closest points of approach to a recording unit in the shipping lane departing Boston. Ship Analysis Band (Hz) MAX SL(t) (dB re: 1μPa) SL_mid (dB re: 1μPa) (RMS RL & interpolated middle-range) 120 dB Range (m) MAX SL(t) 120 dB Range (m) SL_mid 160 dB Range (m) MAX SL(t) 160 dB Range (m) SL_mid Berge-Everett89.1 - 355181.30176.2312213.985607.4326.3112.08 Berge-Everett89.1 - 355180.14174.0429558.717285.28 Delaware289.1 - 355172.14161.502991.50584.296.451.26 Delaware289.1 - 355175.61165.066665.25637.36

10. DTAG Map Underwater Behavior of Whales

11. GeoZui4D: UNH, WHOI, Stellwagen Bank Sanctuary

15. Acoustic Integration Model: Marine Acoustics, Inc, CU, Stellwagen Sanctuary

16. 120db 105,199 Baleen Whales 1,299 Right Whales 160db 145 Baleen Whales 2 Right Whales

17. 120db 38,983 Baleen Whales 678 Right Whales 160db 145 Baleen Whales 1 Right Whales

18. Shipping Lane Spatial Distribution of Shipping Traffic in the Stellwagen Bank NMS: April/May 2006

19. Monitoring during LNG Port Operation: 1) Notifying LNG carriers of acoustically-detected whales to prevent ship strikes

20. Monitoring during LNG Port Operation: 1) Monitoring the port’s acoustic footprint 2)Monitoring the distributions of vocally- active species

21. Collaborators Duke University Marine Lab

22. Financial Support