The IQOE have now launched their re-designed website (www.iqoe.org). The site features all the content as before, with more modern graphics and better integration of the Aquatic Acoustic Library and the database of observing systems.
News
Jan 2018
The International Quiet Ocean Experiment (IQOE)
Lloyd's Register announces new underwater noise notation
Lloyd's Register has released a new underwater noise notation and ShipRight procedure on underwater radiated noise with the intention of helping shipowners minimise underwater noise emmisions when operating in sensitive environments. Increased focus is being placed on underwater noise emissions from vessels and this is creating the need fr a means of controlling underwater noise radiation. New international standards and regulations are anticipated, which will restrict acess to environmentally sensitive areas and limit the types of vessels callign at ports to only those complying with stringent noise level standards.
The importance of particle motion to fishes and invertebrates
Arthur N Popper and Anthony D Hawkins
This paper considers the importance of particle motion to fishes and invertebrates and the steps that need to be taken to improve knowledge of its effects. It is aimed at scientists investigating the impact of sounds on fishes and invertebrates but it is also relevant to regulators, those preparing environmental impact assessments, and to industries creating underwater sound. The overall aim of this paper is to ensure that proper attention is paid to particle motion as a stimulus when evaluating the effects of sound upon aquatic life.
(c) 2018 Acoustical Society of America https://doi.org/10.1121/1.5021594
Dec 2017
Marine Scotland is to be involved in the EU-funded Joint Monitoring Programme for Ambient Noise North Sea (JOMOPANS)
The aim of this project is to develop a framework for a fully operational joint monitoring programme for ambient noise in the North Sea. Output will be the tools necessary for managers, planners and other stakeholders to incorporate the effects of ambient noise in theirassessment of the environmental status of the North Sea, and to evaluate measures to improve the environment. Jomopans is in its initial phases and will officially start the 1st of January 2018.
Nov 2017
Marine Noise Budgets in Practice
Merchant, N. D., Faulkner, R. F., Martinez, R.
Conservation Letters
Avoidance of seismic survey activities by penguins
Pichegru, L., Nyengera, R., McInnes, A.M., Pistorius, P.
Nature Scientific Reports, 7:16305
Lack of behavioural responses of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) indicate limited effectiveness of sonar mitigation
Paul J. Wensveen et al.
The Journal of Experimental Biology (2017)
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.161232
https://phys.org/news/2017-11-navy-efforts-whales-limited-effect.html
Oct 2017
Oysters can hear your noise pollution and its stressing them out
UN Convention on Migratory Species
Adverse Impacts of Anthropogenic Noise on Cetaceans and Other Migratory Species - draft resolution
Prepared by the Aquatic Working Group
UNEP/CMS/COP12/CRP9/Rev.1 28 October 2017
http://www.cms.int/en/document/adverse-impacts-anthropogenic-noise-cetac...
Sep 2017
Solar storms may trigger sperm whale strandings: explanation approaches for multiple strandings in the North Sea in 2016
Klaus Heinrich Vanselow, Sven Jacobsen, Chris Hall and Stefan Garthe
International Journal of Astrobiology, Page 1 of 9 doi: 10.1017/S147355041700026X
See also http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-41110082