The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (JASA) has published a special issue on Methods for Marine Mammal Passive Acoustics. Many papers in this issue came out of the Fifth International Workshop on Detection, Classification, Localization, and Density Estimation of Marine Mammals using Passive Acoustics, which was held at Mt. Hood, Oregon in August 2011. As an editor of this special issue, I say "thank you" to all the authors, reviewers, and editors who helped make it happen. You can obtain the papers from the special issue by contacting the authors or, if you have a JASA subscription, downloading them from the JASA website. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SPECIAL ISSUE ON METHODS FOR MARINE MAMMAL PASSIVE ACOUSTICS Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 134(3), September 2013 Introduction to the special issue on methods for marine mammal passive acoustics David K. Mellinger and Sara L. Heimlich pp. 2381-2382 Methods for tracking multiple marine mammals with wide-baseline passive acoustic arrays Eva-Marie Nosal pp. 2383-2392 Effects of different analysis techniques and recording duty cycles on passive acoustic monitoring of killer whales Amalis Riera, John K. Ford, and N. Ross Chapman pp. 2393-2404 A practical weighting function for harbor porpoise underwater sound level measurements John M. Terhune pp. 2405-2408 Effect of towed array stability on instantaneous localization of marine mammals A. M. von Benda-Beckmann, S. P. Beerens, and S. P. van IJsselmuide pp. 2409-2417 A multimodal detection model of dolphins to estimate abundance validated by field experiments Tomonari Akamatsu, Tamaki Ura, Harumi Sugimatsu, Rajendar Bahl, Sandeep Behera, Sudarsan Panda, Muntaz Khan, S. K. Kar, C. S. Kar, Satoko Kimura, and Yukiko Sasaki-Yamamoto pp. 2418-2426 Automatic detection and classification of odontocete whistles Douglas Gillespie, Marjolaine Caillat, Jonathan Gordon, and Paul White pp. 2427-2437 Acoustically derived growth rates of sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) in Kaikoura, New Zealand Brian S. Miller, Abraham Growcott, Elisabeth Slooten, and Stephen M. Dawson pp. 2438-2445 Acoustic tracking of sperm whales in the Gulf of Alaska using a two-element vertical array and tags Delphine Mathias, Aaron M. Thode, Jan Straley, and Russel D. Andrews pp. 2446-2461 Determining the detection thresholds for harbor porpoise clicks of autonomous data loggers, the Timing Porpoise Detectors Ursula K. Verfuss, Michael Dahne, Anja Gallus, Martin Jabbusch, and Harald Benke pp. 2462-2468 The effects of acoustic misclassification on cetacean species abundance estimation Marjolaine Caillat, Len Thomas, and Douglas Gillespie pp. 2469-2476 An automatic detection algorithm for extracting the representative frequency of cetacean tonal sounds Tzu-Hao Lin, Lien-Siang Chou, Tomonari Akamatsu, Hsiang-Chih Chan, and Chi-Fang Chen pp. 2477-2485 Trackline and point detection probabilities for acoustic surveys of Cuvier's and Blainville's beaked whales Jay Barlow, Peter L. Tyack, Mark P. Johnson, Robin W. Baird, Gregory S. Schorr, Russel D. Andrews, and Natacha Aguilar de Soto pp. 2486-2496 Passive acoustic monitoring of Cook Inlet beluga whales (Delphinapterus leucas) Marc O. Lammers, Manuel Castellote, Robert J. Small, Shannon Atkinson, Justin Jenniges, Anne Rosinski, Julie N. Oswald, and Chris Garner pp. 2497-2504 Acoustic detection and long-term monitoring of pygmy blue whales over the continental slope in southwest Australia Alexander N. Gavrilova and Robert D. McCauley pp. 2505-2513 Methodology and results of calibration of tonal click detectors for small odontocetes (C-PODs) Michael Dahne, Ursula Katharina Verfuss, Anja Brandecker, Ursula Siebert, and Harald Benke pp. 2514-2522 Predictions from harbor porpoise habitat association models are confirmed by long-term passive acoustic monitoring Kate L. Brookes, Helen Bailey, and Paul M. Thompson pp. 2523-2533 Underwater passive acoustic localization of Pacific walruses in the northeastern Chukchi Sea Brendan P. Rideout, Stan E. Dosso, and David E. Hannay pp. 2534-2545 Automated segmentation of linear time-frequency representations of marine-mammal sounds Florian Dadouchi, Cedric Gervaise, Cornel Ioana, Julien Huillery, and Jerome I. Mars pp. 2546-2555 Site specific probability of passive acoustic detection of humpback whale calls from single fixed hydrophones Tyler A. Helble, Gerald L. D'Spain, John A. Hildebrand, Gregory S. Campbell, Richard L. Campbell, and Kevin D. Heaney pp. 2556-2570 Calling depths of baleen whales from single sensor data: Development of an autocorrelation method using multipath localization Robert D. Valtierra, R. Glynn Holt, Danielle Cholewiak, and Sofie M. Van Parijs pp. 2571-2581 Source levels of dugong (Dugong dugon) vocalizations recorded in Shark Bay Miles J. G. Parsons, Dave Holley, and Robert D. McCauley pp. 2582-2588 Passive acoustic monitoring using a towed hydrophone array results in identification of a previously unknown beaked whale habitat Tina M. Yack, Jay Barlow, John Calambokidis, Brandon Southall, and Shannon Coates pp. 2589-2595 Acoustic detection probability of bottlenose dolphins, Tursiops truncatus, with static acoustic dataloggers in Cardigan Bay, Wales Hanna K. Nuuttila, Len Thomas, Jan G. Hiddink, Rhiannon Meier, John R. Turner, James D. Bennell, Nick J. C. Tregenza, and Peter G. H. Evans pp. 2596-2609 Range estimation of cetaceans with compact volumetric arrays Walter M. X. Zimmer pp. 2610-2618