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Per the Scope of Work (SOW), this report provides a combined summary of aerial surveys conducted in July and September 2010 in support of the U.S. Navy’s (Navy) Marine Mammal Monitoring Plan (M3P) in the Southern California Range Complex (Figure 1) (SOCAL) (DoN 2009). These were the seventh and eighth such aerial surveys in SOCAL conducted by SES or SES/Marine Mammal Research Consultants (MMRC). Monitoring occurred before, during, after and in conjunction with several Navy Major Training Events (MTEs) involving mid‐frequency‐ active sonar (MFAS).