IMAS Metadata Catalogue
Passive acoustic recordings of marine megafauna within the Bremer Marine Park and adjacent areas (NESP Emerging Priorities EP2)
Long-term passive acoustic observations were made at the edge of the continental shelf south of Bremer Bay, Western Australia, from February 2015 to February 2016, in order to assess seasonal patterns in the presence of various baleen and toothed whales around the Bremer Canyon/Marine Park.
Further information is available in:
Gavrilov A, Erbe C. 2017. Assessment of marine megafauna found at the edge of the continental shelf off Bremer Bay using passive acoustic observations. Report to the National Environmental Science Programme Marine Biodiversity Hub (CMST 2017-3), 35 p.
For queries relating to access to raw acoustic files contact the Point of Contact listed in this record.
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2017-12-11
Principal investigator
Centre for Marine Science and Technology (CMST), Curtin University - Prof. Christine Erbe
GPO Box U1987
Perth
Western Australia
6845
Australia
Principal investigator
Centre for Marine Science and Technology (CMST), Curtin University - A/Prof. Alexander Gavrilov
GPO Box U1987
Perth
Western Australia
6845
Australia
- Credit
- Centre for Whale Research WA Inc.
- Credit
- SeaWorld Busch Gardens Conservation Fund
- Credit
- National Environmental Science Program (NESP) Marine Biodiversity Hub
- Status
- Completed
Point of contact
Centre for Marine Science and Technology (CMST), Curtin University - Prof. Christine Erbe
GPO Box U1987
Perth
Western Australia
6845
Australia
- Topic category
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- Biota
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Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2015-02-10 2016-02-06
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
- Keywords (Theme)
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- Towed acoustic array
- Sea noise recorder
- Passive acoustic monitoring
- Keywords (Taxon)
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- Antarctic blue whale
- Pygmy blue whale
- Fin whale
- Humpback whale
- Killer whale
- Sperm whale
- NASA/GCMD Keywords, Version 8.5
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- EARTH SCIENCE | OCEANS | OCEAN ACOUSTICS
- EARTH SCIENCE | OCEANS | OCEAN ACOUSTICS | AMBIENT NOISE
- EARTH SCIENCE | BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION | ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES | MAMMALS | CETACEANS | BALEEN WHALES
- EARTH SCIENCE | BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION | ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES | MAMMALS | CETACEANS | TOOTHED WHALES
- EARTH SCIENCE | OCEANS | BATHYMETRY/SEAFLOOR TOPOGRAPHY | SUBMARINE CANYONS
- EARTH SCIENCE | BIOSPHERE | ECOSYSTEMS | MARINE ECOSYSTEMS
Resource constraints
- Linkage
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License Graphic
- Title
- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
- Website
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
License Text
- Other constraints
- The citation in a list of references is: citation author name/s (year metadata published), metadata title. Citation author organisation/s. File identifier and Data accessed at (add http link).
- Other constraints
- Data were analysed for the NESP Marine Biodiversity Hub, a national partnership supported through funding from the Australian Government’s National Environmental Science Program (NESP) and administered by the Department of the Environment (DOE).
- Other constraints
- The data described in this record are the intellectual property of the University of Western Australia and Curtin University of Technology.
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Content Information
- Content type
- Physical measurement
Distribution Information
- OnLine resource
- NESP Marine Biodiversity Hub Project EP2 webpage
Resource lineage
- Statement
- Two autonomous underwater sound recorders were deployed on the seafloor south of Bremer Bay in February 2015. One of these two recorders was a low-frequency (LF) sound recorder designed and built at the Centre for Marine Science and Technology (CMST, http://cmst.curtin.edu.au/products/underwater-sound-recorder/). It stayed in the water recording sea noise from the 10th of February 2015 to the 6th of February 2016. The recorder made 300-s recordings repeated with 900-s intervals (600-s sleep time). The housing of the recorder was equipped with cross-bars to stabilize its position on the seafloor. The second underwater sound recorder was a high-frequency (HF) SM2+ model from Wildlife Acoustics. It was recording sea noise at approximately the same location as the LF recorder from the 10th of February to the 11th of March 2015. The recorder was programmed to make recordings of approximately 960 s length repeated with 30 min intervals. A towed acoustic array was deployed from R/V Whale Song during its voyage in the Southern Ocean in January-February 2016. Recordings from the towed array were made in the region of the Bremer Canyon from about 7:00 to 22:00 WST on the 7th of February. The sampling rate of recording was 48,000 samples per second.
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
mdb:MD_Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- ae6bf482-4f8a-4501-9401-035a165c2427
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Point of contact
Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania (UTAS) - Emma Flukes (NESP Marine Biodiversity Hub Data Manager)
Private Bag 129
Hobart
Tasmania
7001
Australia
- Parent metadata
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
- Metadata linkage
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https://metadata.imas.utas.edu.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/ae6bf482-4f8a-4501-9401-035a165c2427
Point of truth URL of this metadata record
- Date info (Creation)
- 2020-12-22T11:01:25
- Date info (Revision)
- 2020-12-22T11:01:25
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO 19115-3:2018
Overviews
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Associated resources
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