The U.S. Navy is preparing a Draft Environmental Impact Statement/Overseas Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS/OEIS) for the proposed Undersea Warfare Training Range (USWTR). The DEIS includes an assessment of the effects of Navy sonars on marine mammals during exercises to occur on the range as required by the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA). The Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) Division, Newport, RI, has completed this assessment for three sites: the preferred ...
The objective of this study was to characterize known beaked whale habitat and create a predictive beaked whale habitat model of the Gulf of Mexico and east coast of the United States using available beaked whale sighting data in combination with bathymetry and remotely sensed oceanographic data. To accomplish this objective, three specific tasks were required: establish a sighting and stranding database in a Geographic Information System framework, create a ...
A method is provided to estimate acoustic impacts to marine animals within a chosen area. The method begins with data collection on types of acoustic sources to be modeled, animal assemblages in the chosen area, environmental characteristics of the area and on relevant environmental regulations. An acoustic model, appropriate for the chosen area and its environmental characteristics, is then selected and generates a source footprint of all sources to be ...
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