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STRAITS_PAM: Passive Acoustic Monitoring (PAM) during the STRAITS project
Citation
O'Brien, J.; Pérez Tadeo, M.; (2026): Passive Acoustic Monitoring (PAM) during the STRAITS project. https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/8436


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Availability: Creative Commons License This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Description

Sound transmits efficiently through the ocean and many animals have evolved communications strategies that exploit sound transmission to communicate with conspecifics. Most commonly, whales and dolphins have been monitored using passive acoustic recorders that log sonograms for manual or automated species identification. To assess such changes, the extent of anthropogenic noise, and the presence of marine mammals, C-PODs and SoundTraps will be deployed in the North Channel and at least one of the other proposed STRAITS arrays (e.g., Danish Straits, Straits of Gibraltar or the Bosporus and Dardanelles Straits). Locations will be targeted to assess the soundscape across a range of habitats for a range of species and to acoustically monitor the presence of important marine life.


Scope
Themes:
Biology, Biology > Acoustics, Biology > Ecology - biodiversity, Biology > Fish, Biology > Mammals, Physical > Underwater acoustics
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Acoustic arrays, Acoustic data, Acoustic detection, Acoustic detectors, Acoustic devices, C-PODs, Harbour porpoises, Hydrophones, Network Project, Passive acoustic monitoring, Underwater Acoustics, ANE, Europe, European Continental Shelf, Cetacea, Odontoceti Flower, 1867, Phocoena phocoena (Linnaeus, 1758)

Geographical coverage
ANE, Europe, European Continental Shelf [Marine Regions]

Temporal coverage
Till November 2026

Taxonomic coverage
Cetacea [WoRMS]
Odontoceti Flower, 1867 [WoRMS]
Phocoena phocoena (Linnaeus, 1758) [WoRMS]

Parameter
Detections Methodology
Detections: hydrophone recordings


Contributors
Atlantic Technological University (ATU), moreprincipal investigatordata creator

Related datasets
Parent dataset:
European Tracking Network (ETN) data, more

Project
STRAITS: Strategic Infrastructure for improved animal Tracking in European Seas, more

Dataset status: In Progress
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research: field experiment
Metadatarecord created: 2023-11-30
Information last updated: 2023-12-06
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