NESP MB Project E2 - Characterising anthropogenic underwater noise to improve understanding and management of acoustic impacts to marine wildlife
This record provides an overview of the scope and research data outputs of NESP Marine Biodiversity Hub Project E2 - "Characterising anthropogenic underwater noise to improve understanding and management of acoustic impacts to marine wildlife". For specific data outputs from this project, please see child records associated with this metadata.
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Shipping noise is a marine pollutant that contributes significantly to the marine soundscape and is a stressor of marine animals, particularly marine mammals. In Australia, the characterisation and actual impacts of shipping noise on species behaviour are not clearly understood and information is needed. This research will provide quantitative spatial and temporal maps of shipping noise to inform on noise exposure and impacts to MNES within the EEZ and in WHA’s. The outputs will provide key information to marine management agencies such as DoEE, AMSA and GBRMPA to help them meet responsibilities and obligations under international and national law and policy to minimise the impacts of shipping noise on MNES.
Planned Outputs
• A suite of maps of chronic shipping noise for key areas and species of concern, identifying key management areas and gross polluters.
• A database of ship source spectra for predominant large vessels
• A paper on improved methods or ambient noise estimation
• Report on the quantification of shipping noise on Matters of National Environmental Significance
• Final report on the characterisation of shipping noise in Australia
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2018-08-01
Resource provider
- Credit
- David Peel (CSIRO), Christine Erbe (Curtin University), Josh Smith (Murdoch University), Judy Upston (CSIRO)
- Credit
- National Environmental Science Program (NESP) Marine Biodiversity Hub
- Credit
- Department of the Environment and Energy (DoEE), Australian Government
- Credit
- In addition to NESP (DoEE) funding, this project is matched by an equivalent amount of in-kind support and co-investment from project partners and collaborators.
- Status
- On going
Principal investigator
- Topic category
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- Oceans
Extent
Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2018-01-01 2019-12-31
Extent
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- Keywords (dataSource)
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- National Environmental Science Program (NESP) Marine Biodiversity Hub
- Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC): Fields of Research
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- Natural Resource Management
- Marine and Estuarine Ecology (incl. Marine Ichthyology)
- Keywords (Theme)
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- shipping
- chronic noise
- pressure mapping
- AIS data
- anthropogenic underwater noise
Resource constraints
- Classification
- Unclassified
Resource constraints
- Use limitation
- The data collections described in this record are funded by the Australian Government Department of the Environment and Energy (DoEE) through the NESP Marine Biodiversity Hub.
Resource constraints
- Linkage
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License Graphic
- Title
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Website
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
License Text
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Content Information
- Content type
- Physical measurement
Distribution Information
- Distribution format
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- OnLine resource
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NESP Marine Biodiversity Hub Project E2 webpage
- OnLine resource
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Department of the Environment and Energy NESP website
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
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d14f9b66-9a4b-4acc-838d-1285a38e3229
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Point of contact
- Parent metadata
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Field session
- Name
- MB Hub Project E2
- Metadata linkage
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https://metadata.imas.utas.edu.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/d14f9b66-9a4b-4acc-838d-1285a38e3229
Point of truth URL of this metadata record
- Date info (Creation)
- 2019-02-21T13:05:30
- Date info (Revision)
- 2019-02-21T13:05:30
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO 19115-3:2018