MIRC EAR PAM Progress Report

Authors: Munger et al Year published: 2014 File size: 3,302.53 KB

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A long-term passive acoustic monitoring program was initiated in 2011 by the United States (U.S.) Navy Pacific Fleet in waters off Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands to investigate the occurrence of cetaceans and mid-frequency active sonar (MFAS). Four ecological acoustic recorders (EARs) were deployed at two sites off Guam, one at Saipan, and one at Tinian on September 2011. The four EARs wereretrievedand redeployed at the same sites in April 2012.Three of the four EARs wereretrieved in January 2013.

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