The proceedings of the workshop on Static
Acoustic Monitoring (SAM) of cetaceans, held at the 20th Annual
Conference of the European Cetacean Society in Gdynia, Poland, 2nd - 7th
April 2006, is now available on the following website:
http://www.seaturtle.org/mtrg/personnel/SAM_report.shtml
The workshop was held to address issues relating to
SAM for dolphins and porpoises. SAM
of odontocetes has been developing steadily and has been used
successfully to study environmental impacts of noise producing processes,
cetacean habitat use, diel patterns of activity, fishery interactions and
behaviour. Whilst the scope of the workshop was SAM in general, many of
the studies discussed had used the T-POD device and consequently much of
the discussion centered on issues specific to this device.
For further information, please contact Ruth Leeney.