UACE: International Quiet Ocean Experiment: Approach to Observations of Sound in the Ocean

• Session:
  Acoustic methods and technologies for ocean observatories
• Paper:
  International Quiet Ocean Experiment: Approach to Observations of Sound in the Ocean
• Author(s):
  Jennifer Miksis-Olds, Peter Tyack, George Frisk
• Abstract:
  The aim of the International Quiet Ocean Experiment (IQOE) Program is to create an international program of research, observation, and modeling to better characterize ocean sound fields and to foster understanding of the effects of sound on marine life. A central feature of the 10-year IQOE Program will be an International Year of the Quiet Ocean (IYQO), which will promote the participating scientific, industrial, environmental, and naval communities towards an intense period of scientific activity, coordinated across regions to create a global program. The Observation of Sound in the Ocean is one of four focused IQOE themes and is integral to the IQOE Program as a whole and to the IYQO. \n\nObserving sound in the ocean will be the motivation of work done under this theme to coordinate and standardize existing acoustic observing systems, add sound measurements to existing and future observing systems, and to encourage technical innovation in the measurement of sound. This theme will encourage international use of data and processing standards through a dedicated IQOE Standardization Working Group, and will promote acoustic observation of the key biological and physical variables within developing ocean observation systems. Data management of recorded sound from ocean observation networks is a challenge that will be addressed by the IQOE Data Management Working Group. Through the IQOE Partnership for Observation of the Global Oceans (POGO) Working Group, a proposal for acoustics as an Essential Ocean Variable (EOV) has been developed for consideration by the Global Ocean Observing System steering committee targeting both the Physics and Climate Panel and Biology and Ecosystem Panel.\n
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Contact details

• Contact person:
  Dr Jennifer Miksis-Olds
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• Affiliation:
  University of New Hampshire
• Country:
  United States