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NOAA's Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory in Newport, Oregon and National Marine Mammal Laboratory in Seattle, Washington are collaborating on a joint study to assess the potential of long-range acoustic monitoring of free-ranging populations of large cetaceans.

For more details on this collaboration
click here.

Methods:
Sound Recognition Software (Ishmael)

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Browse spectrograms/sounds by species:
blue whale
fin whale
minke whale
humpback whale

Browse spectrograms/sounds by area:
 Pacific
Atlantic
Eastern Tropical Pacific
Gulf of Alaska

  

Browse whale biology pages:
blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus)
fin whale(Balaenoptera physalus)
minke whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata)
humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae)

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