Passive Acoustic Monitoring for Marine Mammals in the SOCAL Range Complex April 2021–May 2022
Authors: Rice et al
Year published: 2023
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Passive acoustic monitoring was conducted in the Navy’s Southern California Range Complex from April 2021 to May 2022 to detect marine mammal and anthropogenic sounds. High-frequency Acoustic Recording Packages (HARPs) recorded sounds between 10 Hz and 100 kHz at four locations: one site west of San Nicolas Island (1,100 m depth, site SN), two sites west of San Clemente Island (1,300 m depth, site E and 1,200 m depth, site H), and one site southwest of San Clemente Island (1,300 m depth, site N). With the offshore expansion of the SOCAL range, site SN was added into the monitoring effort for this reporting period to improve noise monitoring for the region.
