Task 1
Bibliographic review and questionnaires to marine mammal researchers
ACCURATE will begin with a comprehensive bibliographic research and contacting researchers involved in PAM work to understand existing unpublished data sources. Datasets containing relevant information that might be currently ignored or have not yet been processed for the purposes of estimating acoustic cue rates will be identified and processed. Different methods for cue rate estimation, existence of different types of cue rates and optimal choice of cue will be investigated. The outcome will be a user-friendly data repository that enables Navy users to find the most appropriate cue rate to select in PAM-DE efforts for a given priority species and area, made freely available to the wider community. This will also allow identification of priority areas where there is currently insufficient knowledge that might form the basis of future investment in cue rate estimation.
Team members
- Tiago Marques
- Danielle Harris
- Cormac Booth
- Miriam Rodrigues
- Diana Marques
- Carolina Marques
- Kalliopi Gkikopoulou
Progress
Watch this space for further task updates.
- Informal questionnaires sent out to researchers tagging marine mammals
- Prompt for feedback on tagging efforts via MARMMAM post
- Online search of all marine mammals completed using Web of Knowledge, Google Scholar and Google
- Draft manuscript prepared on review of marine mammal acoustic cue production
