RIMPAC passive acoustic monitoring deployment and vessel survey
Authors: HDR
Year published: 2010
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The results of marine mammal monitoring reported here for RIMPAC 2010 represent the first monitoring effort under the U.S. Navy’s Marine Species Monitoring Program (Contract # N62470-10-D-3011) issued to engineering-environmental Management, Inc., an HDR company (HDR|e²M). The monitoring effort for RIMPAC 2010 consisted of the following: Vessel-based line transect surveys to assess the diversity, distribution, and behavior of target species (e.g., marine mammals and sea turtles) Installation of one shallow- and one deep-water passive acoustic monitors (PAMs) in waters off Ni'ihau.
