Resources
class resources and references
marine environmental issues
- Puget Sound Partnership (Recent effort to coordinate marine ecosystem recovery)
- Puget Sound Action Team: State of the Sound 2004 (Archived PDF)
orca overviews
- NOAA/NMFS orca page
- 2008 Final Recovery Plan [1.8Mb PDF, 251pp]
- Revised Draft Conservation Plan (October 05, 2005) [1.0Mb PDF, 189pp]
- NOAA/NMFS 2004 Status Review [1.9Mb PDF, 96pp]
- Center for Biodiversity orca overview and recommendations
- Canada Draft Recovery Strategy (March 16, 2005)
- Ken Balcomb’s reading list (html) for Earth Watch groups
- ACS Online killer whale issues
- Rick Keil’s orca powerpoint presentation
scientific papers, reports, theses, etc
- Sound Exposure and
Southern Resident Killer Whales (Holt, 2008; NOAA/NMFS Technical Memorandum) - Sound Exposure of Southern Resident Killer Whales (Griffin and Bain, 2006) [source]
- Theses related to southern resident killer whales (Osborne, 1999; Foote, 2005; Hauser, 2006; McCluskey, 2006)
- Orca Relief research results (Mark Anderson et al’s 3 sponsored papers plus links to other key literature)
- BR /research/whales directory
- Photo identification guides (from the Center for Whale Research)
- Marine Mammal Populations and Ocean Noise: Determining When Noise Causes Biologically Significant Effects, 2005, NRC
- Ocean Noise and Marine Mammals, 2003, NRC
acoustics: general
- NOAA Ocean Acoustics Program (Director, Dr. Brandon Southall)
- Discovery of Sound in the Sea (U of Rhode Island)
- NOAA/PMEL acoustics primer
- Val’s page on sound basics
- Acoustics and vibration animations by Dr. Dan Russell
- NOAA Symposium on Shipping Noise
- Mellinger’s Acoustic Assessment Workshop Report (PDF)
- Animal Bioacoustics resource page (NOAA/PMEL)
- Acoustic Ecology
- World Forum for Acoustic Ecology
- CIBRA – Center for Interdisciplinary Bioacoustic Research (in Italy; has good long list of references and soft/hardware guidance)
- Animal Bioacoustics upcoming conferences
acoustics: software packages
- Syrinx for spectral analysis, editing, and playback (Windows; free)
- Ishmael (Windows; PMEL pub; free)
- Rainbow Click (Windows; click detection and localization; free)
- Logger (Windows; GPS and localization logging; free)
- AcousticLocation (Matlab routines to calculate the locations of sound sources; free)
- XBAT (Extensible sound analysis application and MATLAB platform [automatic detectors!]; free)
- Audacity (OSX, Windows, Linux; open source; free)
- Signal Scope (OSX)
- Sound Forge (v.8.0, 30-day free trial, $300; Windows only)
- Canary (Mac OS 9.2 and older; Windows)
- Raven (OSX; Windows)
Download links: 1.2
| 1.3 (beta in Fall 2006) - R (statistics)
- PRAAT: doing phonetics by computer
- EthoLog behavioral observation transcription tool (Windows)
- Seadragon Whistle simulator and detector (Java Runtime Environment)
- PamGuard = Passive Acoustic Monitoring (automatic detection and localization; opensource Java-based; free)
acoustics: equipment and hardware
- T-POD (Chelonia Ltd, Long Rock, UK): static passive acoustic monitoring
device with self-contained submersible data-logger commonly used to record
porpoises and dolphins and to inform environmental impact studies (EIS) of
offshore wind farms. -
Fish tags
- Hydroacoustic Technology, Inc. (fish tags, receivers, arrays; based in Seattle)
- POST: Pacific Ocean Shelf Tracking
- TOPP: Tagging of Pacific Pelagics
- Acoustic tags in Big Beef steelhead (Kitsap Sun, May 9, 2006)
- Vemco (fish tag) tutorials and other resources
local interest groups
- San Juan County Marine Resource Committee, Friday Harbor, WA, USA
- The Whale Museum, Friday Harbor, WA, USA
- The Center for Whale Research, San Juan Island, WA, USA
- Orca Network (Sightings email and archives) |
(Beam Reach mirror of sighting archives) - Whale Watch Operators Association Northwest
- Orca Relief, San Juan Island, WA, USA
- Cascadia Research Collective, Olympia, WA, USA
- BC Sighting Network
- Johnstone Strait Killer Whale Interpretive Centre Society, Telegraph Cove, BC, Canada
- Friends of the San Juans, Friday Harbor, WA, USA
- American Cetacean Society, Puget Sound Chapter, Seattle, WA, USA
- Long Live the Kings, Orcas Island and Seattle, WA, USA
Sailing
- Basic navigation (US Sailing)
- Rules of the road (US Sailing)
Sustainability and service project
- Beam Reach sustainability wiki with reports
- Beam Reach sustainability research
- Friday Harbor Laboratories
- Historical timeline by Claudia Mills
- 100 things to do in Friday Harbor (at fridayharbor.com)
- Future impacts of growth for San Juan County (cached from http://www.doebay.net/appeal.html)
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