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

Department of the Environment and Energy (DoEE), Australian Government
Australian Government Department of the Environment and Energy
GPO Box 787
Canberra
Australian Capital Territory
2601
Australia
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

CSIRO - Peel, David, Dr (Project Leader)
GPO Box 1538
Hobart
Tasmania
7001
Australia
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Topic category
  • Oceans

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Temporal extent

Time period
2018-01-01 2019-12-31

Extent

Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
Keywords (dataSource)
  • National Environmental Science Program (NESP) Marine Biodiversity Hub
Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC): Fields of Research
  • Natural Resource Management
  • Marine and Estuarine Ecology (incl. Marine Ichthyology)
Keywords (Theme)
  • 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.

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Website
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Content Information

Content type
Physical measurement

Distribution Information

Distribution format

OnLine resource
NESP Marine Biodiversity Hub Project E2 webpage

OnLine resource
Department of the Environment and Energy NESP website

Metadata

Metadata identifier
d14f9b66-9a4b-4acc-838d-1285a38e3229

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
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Type of resource

Resource scope
Field session
Name
MB Hub Project E2
Metadata linkage
https://metadata.imas.utas.edu.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/d14f9b66-9a4b-4acc-838d-1285a38e3229

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Date info (Creation)
2019-02-21T13:05:30
Date info (Revision)
2019-02-21T13:05:30

Metadata standard

Title
ISO 19115-3:2018
 
 

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Keywords

AIS data anthropogenic underwater noise chronic noise pressure mapping shipping

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