Marine Mammal Monitoring on Navy Ranges (M3R) for Beaked Whales on the Southern California Anti‐Submarine Warfare Range (SOAR) and the Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF)

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In the Pacific the Marine Mammal Monitoring on Navy Ranges (M3R) program maintains systems that automatically detect, classify and localize marine mammals in real-time on the U.S. Navy’s deep-water Southern California Antisubmarine Warfare Range (SOAR) in Southern California and Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF) off Hawai’i. Long-term archive data collected on these ranges allows for numerous types of studies on species inhabiting the ranges, including the monitoring of abundance and distribution, behavioral responses to naval activities, and habitat usage. They also provide the opportunity to study ambient noise and soundscapes.