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Ocean
Seismicity:
OSU Seismology:
http://quakes.oce.orst.edu/
Hawaiian
Volcano Observatory:
http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/
UW Seismology:
http://www.geophys.washington.edu/SEIS/
Acoustics:
National Academy of Science's Underwater Acoustics
http://www4.nas.edu/beyond/beyonddiscovery.nsf/web/ocean
"Beyond the Ocean's Secrets" covers underwater acoustic
principles, research and applications using sound in the ocean.
Cornell
University Bioacoustics Research Program
http://www.birds.cornell.edu/brp/
Simple description of the program with links to ATOC page
Acoustical
Society of America Animal Bioacoustics site
http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/vents/bioacoustics.html
Excellent
resource for bioacoustic career information, equipment, etc.
Italy's
Universita degli Studi di Pavia's Interdisciplinary Center
for Bioacoustics and Environmental Research
http://www.unipv.it/webcib/welcome.html
EXCELLENT PAGE!!! Many sound files, good description of analysis
techniques
Office
of Naval Research (ONR) right whale page
http://www.onr.navy.mil/sci_tech/ocean/info/nrtwhale/
description of use of existing Navy technology to detect right
whales along the coast of the southeast U.S. Good whale
sound files and a right whale movie (CNN).
WhaleNet
Sound Sources Sites
http://whale.wheelock.edu/whalenet-stuff/sounds/
WhaleNet is an interactive educational project sponsored by
Wheelock College in Boston, Massachusetts. Good educational
site with links to other sites with cetacean sounds.
ATOC
http://atoc.ucsd.edu/
The Acoustic Thermometry of Ocean Climate (ATOC) project is
using low-frequency sound to study global warming. The
marine mammal component of the project is studying the effects
of this sound on marine species
North
Pacific Acoustic Laboratory
http://npal.ucsd.edu/
A joint project of Scripps Institute of Oceanography and the
Applied Laboratory at University of Washington to continue
work begun in Kauai via the ATOC project. Site is primarily
an EIS for the project.
Texas
A&M Bioacoustics Laboratory
http://bioacoustics.tamucc.edu/
Site describes research associated with such projects as GulCet
and ATOC.
Loughborough
University Signal Processing Research Group
http://sonar-fs.lboro.ac.uk/
Basic information on hardware and links to other pages with
information on marine mammals The
Cetacean Communication Project
http://www.tmsi.nus.edu.sg/mmrl/
Singapore group studying dolphin vocalizations (primarily
in captivity). Good diagrams of equipment.
Mark
McDonald's website on passive acoustic methods for the study
of large whales
http://www.whaleacoustics.com/
Wildlife
Web: Sounds of the Wild
http://homepage.mac.com/wildlifeweb/sounds/index.html
great list of other acoustic links
Marine
Mammals:
Society for Marine Mammalogy
http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~smm/
the largest professional society of marine mammalogists; includes
career information
NMFS
Marine Mammal Stock Assessment Reports
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/sars/region.htm
includes distribution maps for U.S. Marine Mammal Stocks
and stock assessments from 1996-2000.
NMFS
Office of Protected Species page
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/prot_res/prot_res.html
Excellent background information on all marine mammal species
protected by U.S. Federal laws; includes ESA and MMPA information
Virtual
Whale Project
http://www.cs.sfu.ca/gruvi/Projects/VirtualWhales/Whales/
computer animation simulating feeding behaviors of Pacific
humpback whales; good source of humpback feeding calls
WhaleNet
Home Page
http://whale.wheelock.edu/whalenet-stuff/interwhale.html
for students, teachers, public...also in Espanol! Excellent
listing of other internet resources
American
Cetacean Society
http://www.acsonline.org/
Oregon
State University Marine Mammal Research Program
http://oregonstate.edu/groups/marinemammal/
satellite
tracking of large whales, including animations of actual whale
tracks
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