• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2021-04-02T00:00:00.000+00:00

Offshore wind farms allow renewable energy to be generated with little or no carbon dioxide emissions and there is little visual or noise disturbance to the public. Making decisions on when and...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2025-03-08T00:00:00.000+00:00

Killer whales (Orcinus orca) exhibit significant ecological and genetic diversity, with three primary sympatric ecotypes in the Northeast Pacific: Resident, Bigg’s (Transient), and Offshore. Each...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2025-03-08T00:00:00.000+00:00

ADRIFT in the California Current uses passive acoustic drifting buoys to study ocean sound in the California Current Ecosystem. These autonomous buoys drift with currents and are tracked via...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2026-01-06T00:00:00.000+00:00

This dataset contains 3D localizations of beaked whales at the LISTEN Green Canyon acoustic monitoring site. An array of three High-frequency Acoustic Recording Packages (HARPs) were deployed at...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2023-06-12T00:00:00.000+00:00

To understand natural and anthropogenic sound in the ocean, and to compare underwater soundscapes globally, standard methods of analysis must be applied to passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) data....

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2025-11-10T00:00:00.000+00:00

Advancing remote marine mammal stock assessment with passive acoustic gliders

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2023-03-03T00:00:00.000+00:00

This dataset is a compilation of 1 week of acoustic data, collected in the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary within the Western North Atlantic Ocean. The dataset was manually annotated for...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2014-05-23T00:00:00.000+00:00

A series of synthesized sounds were played back from multiple locations around and within a grid of four DIFAR sonobuoys. Four type 53F DIFAR sonobuoys with attached SPOT GPS devices were deployed...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2021-02-19T00:00:00.000+00:00

This catalog contains passive acoustic recordings of cetaceans taken from areas within the Pacific Islands Region since 2005.

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2023-03-03T00:00:00.000+00:00

These datasets are a compilation of 8 days of acoustic data, collected in the Western North Atlantic Ocean that was manually annotated for the presence of North Atlantic right whale upcalls. This...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2020-12-31T00:00:00.000+00:00

Passive acoustic monitoring of Gulf of Maine waters is a critical aspect of understanding long term changes in North Atlantic right whale (NARW) presence and distribution within this region. An...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2023-05-31T00:00:00.000+00:00

To understand natural and anthropogenic sound in the ocean, and to compare underwater soundscapes globally, standard methods of analysis must be applied to passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) data....

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2020-09-21T00:00:00.000+00:00

This record represents raw passive acoustic data collected from the Gerry E. Studds Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary (SBNMS). From 2006 to 2011, researchers deployed arrays of...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2022-07-13T00:00:00.000+00:00

This record represents raw passive acoustic data collected by NOAA's Southeast Fisheries Science Center (SEFSC) from moored recording instruments in the Gulf of Mexico since 2016. Moored acoustic...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2025-06-05T00:00:00.000+00:00

Glacier Bay National Park is conducting underwater passive acoustic monitoring to characterize the underwater sound environment including weather generated sounds, biologics, and vessel noise, for...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2025-05-29T00:00:00.000+00:00

Passive acoustic monitoring recorders were deployed off the coast of Virginia to collect two years of acoustic data from 2015 - 2017 to determine the acoustic presence of four focal whale species:...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2023-08-14T00:00:00.000+00:00

To understand natural and anthropogenic sound in the ocean, and to compare underwater soundscapes globally, standard methods of analysis must be applied to passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) data....

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2024-11-07T00:00:00.000+00:00

These are raw audio data from the Estuarine Soundscape Observatory Network in the Southeast (ESONS) funded by NOAA IOOS/SECOORA. Passive acoustic recorders (Loggerhead instruments, Sarasota, FL)...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2024-11-07T00:00:00.000+00:00

In 2010, the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil spill had unprecedented impacts on the Gulf of Mexico ecosystem, including the twenty cetacean species inhabiting the oceanic waters of this semi-enclosed...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2024-11-07T00:00:00.000+00:00

This record represents the hybrid millidecade (HMD) sound levels derived from calibrated passive acoustic data. Daily HMD at 1 minute resolution were created using standalone MANTA software...

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