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We conduct a variety of visual surveys from aerial and vessel platforms in both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans
Explore current and past deployments of passive acoustic monitoring devices such as High-frequency Acoustic Recording Packages (HARPs), Marine Autonomous Recording Units (MARUs), Ecological Acoustic Recorders (EARs), automated click detectors (C-PODs), and other PAM devices.
Monitoring projects involving deploying a variety of tag types on marine species are a common part of the Navy's marine species monitoring program to address questions such as habitat use, diving and feeding ecology, and behavioral response.