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- Next month, Dr Jason Wood will be presenting at Marine Renewables Canada #MRC2025 on "Benefits of Real Time Passive Acoustic Monitoring for Mitigation", which will explore case studies in which our #CoastalAcousticBuoys have been used for marine mammal #mitigation #monitoring ...
- Today, Cormac Booth will be presenting to the National Physical Laboratory (#NPL) #Underwater #Sound #Forum in London on lessons learned from the last 15 years of #underwaternoise and #marinemammal monitoring with CAB. #realtime #EnvironmentalMonitoring #SmartSensors #Innovation #GreenTech
- Exciting opportunity: please join SMRU Consulting and Ørsted for a webinar on Tuesday, 4th Nov, to run through the findings of the recently completed 'IDEAS' project (Improving cetacean Density Estimation from digital Aerial Surveys).
- We're excited to share that Courtney Ogilvy from SMRU Consulting will be presenting at Marine Renewables Canada 2025! #MRC2025 #CanadianOffshoreWind #marinescience #environmentalimpactassessment #renewableenergy
- Our PhD candidate, @philippawright.bsky.social, at #CWW2025 (Wind energy &vWildlife impacts) on the #PrePARED project:🐟Fish for thought: The nutritional quality of prey species with a developing offshore wind landscape @uniofstandrews.bsky.social Learn more about PrePARED here: owecprepared.org
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- 🚨 Milestone Alert! Last week, our CAB systems surpassed 5,000 days of listening beneath the waves — tracking whales, vessels, and more throughout the Pacific Northwest! #CoastalAcousticBuoy
- Check out our latest blog post! ➡️ On using our Coastal Acoustic Buoys for the real-time passive acoustic mitigation monitoring of dolphins during a port's dredging campaign in the north of Scotland. #passiveacoustics #CAB #mitigationmonitoring #ArdersierPort www.smruconsulting.com/blog/real-ti...
- Hot off the press: "A call for comparable measurements of underwater radiated noise related to vessel speed reduction programs" in @asa-news.bsky.social pubs.aip.org/asa/jel/arti... #VSR #URN
- PrePARED webinar now recorded online! ➡️ Report 007, "Challenges & Solutions for Offshore Wind Farm Cumulative Effects Assessments for Marine Mammals" by SMRU Consulting's Rachael Sinclair. #PrePAREDProject #OWEC #CrownEstateScotland owecprepared.org/outputs/ www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dXQ...
- 📣 PrePARED WEBINAR 📣 The Predators & Prey Around Renewable Energy Developments (#PrePARED) project is hosting a webinar on the Challenges & Solutions for Offshore Wind Farm Cumulative Effects Assessments for Marine Mammals. 🗓️ Tue 15 Jul, 12-12:30 (BST) events.teams.microsoft.com/event/c2565c...
- Great to see our Coastal Acoustic Buoys, (CAB Guardian & CAB Sentinels) included in this review of cutting edge tech for marine mammal monitoring by Institute of Marine Engineering, Science & Technology (@imarest.bsky.social ) & DEFRA www.imarest.org/resource/mar...
- Happy World Orca Day everyone! We have just picked up SRKW on our Lime Kiln hydrophone as of 12:07 p.m. and the Haro Strait and Boundary Pass voluntary ship Slowdowns are now in effect! #WorldOrcaDay #SRKW #ECHOProgram
- 🐋Proud to have contributed to this independent science panel on #SRKW recovery, alongside colleagues from @raincoast.org @georgiastraitbc.bsky.social @seadocsociety.bsky.social @nrdc.org @oceansinitiative.org @wwfcanada.org @davidsuzukifdn.bsky.social @ubcoceans.bsky.social @sfuscience.bsky.social
- 📣 PrePARED WEBINAR 📣 The Predators & Prey Around Renewable Energy Developments (#PrePARED) project is hosting a webinar on the Challenges & Solutions for Offshore Wind Farm Cumulative Effects Assessments for Marine Mammals. 🗓️ Tue 15 Jul, 12-12:30 (BST) events.teams.microsoft.com/event/c2565c...
- Check out our new Notes from the field blog post about deploying 30 PAM moorings at the Dogger Bank Wind Farm! www.smruconsulting.com/blog/notes-f... #Fieldwork #PAM #OffshoreWind
- New output from the ONR/LMR-funded #ACCURATE project by @popigk.bsky.social in @asa-news.bsky.social #passiveacoustics #densityestimation #beampattern #biosonar @uniofstandrews.bsky.social @seamammalresearch.bsky.social @au.dk #CREEM #JASA doi.org/10.1121/10.0...
- Proud to have contributed to the @wwfnederland.bsky.social #BlueCorridors project! www.linkedin.com/posts/erich-...
- New report on cumulative effects assessments (CEAs) by Rachael Sinclair for the #PrePAREDProject. Here, we recommend guidance for the standardization of CEAs, in order to make them more representative, comparable, thus enabling a more streamlined consenting process. owecprepared.org/wp-content/u...
- Looking forward to attending this hosted by the #PrePAREDProject (Predators and Prey Around Renewable Energy Developments) team on Wednesday 21 May from 12 - 12:30pm GMT+1. You can register here: rb.gy/gav951 #offshorewind #renewables #thecrownestate @exeter.ac.uk
- Happy Friday! Here are some nice #SRKW vocals our #LimeKiln hydrophone recorded in March. @thewhalemuseum.bsky.social #HaroStrait
- New paper: Darias-O'Hara et al. "Behavioural response thresholds for the assessment of noise impact on Antarctic marine mammal species", Marine Policy. @uniofstandrews.bsky.social @au.dk @seamammalresearch.bsky.social Funded by@umweltbundesamt.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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- Reposted by SMRU ConsultingCheck out this fantastic article for an eloquent explanation of our recent publication in @science.org www.acsh.org/news/2025/03...
- Reposted by SMRU ConsultingGreat talk by @kateywhyte.bsky.social from @bioss.bsky.social at the SOI today. So 👏 much 👏 data 👏 Such an exciting project! @uniofstandrews.bsky.social
- Welcome to our new Managing Director, Dr Cormac Booth www.linkedin.com/posts/cormac...
- We're proud to have our CAB Guardians for real-time passive acoustic mitigation monitoring in the Moray Firth. Here's a video from the recent deployment for Haventus, with SMRU Consulting staff Chloe, Jack & Sam. www.linkedin.com/posts/havent...
- Reposted by SMRU Consulting🔊 Paper alert! 🐬🎧 Noise of high-speed vessels 🚤 impairs the #biosonar ability of #harbourporpoises 🐬 - making it more difficult for them to 🤯 sense surroundings, 🧭 navigate and 🐟 hunt prey within several hundred meters. 🥳Huge contribution to understanding masking effects! 🌐 doi.org/10.1242/jeb....
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- Our acoustic monitoring station at #LimeKiln recorded a magnitude 4.5 earthquake 03/03/25 at 05:02 a.m.! The epicenter was located 30 km away on the east coast of Orcas Island & the earthquake was loud enough underwater to cause audio clipping (remove headphones!) #TheWhaleMuseum #HaroStrait #PAM
- To celebrate the recent International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we spoke with three of our scientists: Magda, Meadhbh, and Sam. Read about their career journeys, inspirations and advice for aspiring scientists here: www.smruconsulting.com/blog/celebra... #womeninscience #wimms
- Reposted by SMRU Consulting🦭 Have you spotted a grey seal killing or eating harbour seals or grey seal pups in the UK? Please send your footage and reports to SMRUsealreports@st-andrews.ac.uk ! 🦭
- SMRU researchers are appealing for the public to help us understand why UK Harbour seals are in steep decline news.st-andrews.ac.uk/archive/st-a...
- New publication on #humpback acoustics, in @royalsociety.org from our project scientist, @emarwood.bsky.social @seamammalresearch.bsky.social @ellengarland.bsky.social @lrendell.bsky.social @francae.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
- Reposted by SMRU ConsultingProud supervisor moment! Ella's masters thesis paper on Okinawa humpback #whale #song complexity and evolution is out today in RSOS. Awesome collaboration with Nozomi Kobayashi et al. @francae.bsky.social @lrendell.bsky.social @seamammalresearch.bsky.social doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
- Reposted by SMRU ConsultingNew paper! Humpback song evolution in the waters of Okinawa. Great to see this out, another #MSc_MMS_St_A Marine Mammal Science MSc thesis published 🥳 congratulations to Ella and Nozomi. 🐋🦑🧪 tl;dr:
- Proud supervisor moment! Ella's masters thesis paper on Okinawa humpback #whale #song complexity and evolution is out today in RSOS. Awesome collaboration with Nozomi Kobayashi et al. @francae.bsky.social @lrendell.bsky.social @seamammalresearch.bsky.social doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
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- We are hiring a Managing Director! Lead our global organisation at the forefront of marine mammal science, with teams in Scotland, the USA, and Canada. Applications close 10 February 25. Learn more: ow.ly/MV5350UKRv7
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- Reposted by SMRU Consulting📢 Webinar alert! I'll be presenting my PhD research as part of the Hebridean Whale and Dolphin Trust Winter Webinar series on Weds 22th Jan. Sign up here on Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.com/e/killer-wha...
- New research from the NMMF, the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment and LKARTS-Norway shows #minke whales can hear sound frequencies as high as 45-90 kHz, higher than previously believed and one of the first real-world measurements of hearing in baleen whales. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- New report published - on combining DAS & PAM data to improve density estimates of cetaceans 🐋 #DigitalAerialSurvey #PassiveAcousticMonitoring #MarineDirectorate @uniofstandrews.bsky.social #CREEM #HiDefAerialSurveying @smruc.bsky.social www.gov.scot/publications...
- New #PrePAREDProject outputs from @uniofstandrews.bsky.social + @smruc.bsky.social. Philippa Wright & team have generated >400 new energy density estimates from 29 prey species. This ongoing work aids in assessing impacts of disturbed foraging on marine predators. owecprepared.org/wp-content/u...
