Acoustic trends of Antarctic blue and fin whales
Publications and relevant reading
Towards collective circum-Antarctic passive acoustic monitoring: The Southern Ocean Hydrophone Network (SOHN) [PDF] (2014) Polarforschung, 83(2):47-61, hdl:10013/epic.44470.d001.
Red Shift, Blue Shift: Investigating Doppler Shifts, Blubber Thickness, and Migration as Explanations of Seasonal Variation in the Tonality of Antarctic Blue Whale Song (2014) PLoS ONE 9(9): e107740. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0107740.
Listen to the BLUE: Towards a pan-Antarctic monitoring system and blueprint of analysis methods to study fin and Antarctic blue whales in the Southern Ocean [PDF] (2013) Poster.
Seasonal and Geographic Variation of Southern Blue Whale Subspecies in the Indian Ocean (2013) PLoS ONE 8:e71561. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0071561.
Acoustic Trends Workgroup [PDF] (2013) Blue and Fin Whale Acoustic Trends Project: Report of 2012 Steering Committee Meeting Bremerhaven, Germany.
Steady inter and intra-annual decrease in the vocalization frequency of Antarctic blue whales (2012) Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 131:4476–80. DOI: 10.1121/1.4707425.
Discovery of a mid-latitude sympatric area for two Southern Hemisphere blue whale subspecies (2010) Endangered Species Research 12:157–165. DOI: 10.3354/esr00302.
Detection range modeling of blue whale calls in Southwestern Indian Ocean (2010) Applied Acoustics 71:1099–1106. DOI: 10.1016/j.apacoust.2010.05.014.
Source level estimation of two blue whale subspecies in southwestern Indian Ocean (2010) Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 127:3800–8. DOI: 10.1121/1.3409479.
Geographic Variation in Southern Ocean Fin Whale Song (2009) Report SC/61/SH16. Submitted to the Scientific Committee of the International Whaling Commission [Available from the office of the IWC].
Seasonal occurrence of low frequency whale vocalisations across eastern Antarctic and southern Australian waters, February 2004 to February 2007 (2007) Report SC/59/SH5 submitted to the Scientific Committee of the International Whaling Commission. Anchorage, Alaska. [Available from the office of the IWC]
International Whaling Commission papers
Papers from this SORP project submitted to the International Whaling Commission can be found on IWC papers and reports.