Ocean awareness - investigating the intersection of marine mammals, ships and sound

海洋意识——调查海洋哺乳动物、船舶和声音的交集

• 批准号: 500069-2016
• 负责人: Canessa, Rosaline
• 金额: $ 3.6万
• 依托单位: University of Victoria
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Collaborative Research and Development Grants
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2017-01-01 至 2018-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=619010
• 关键词: Ocean; awareness; investigating; intersection; marine

The 'Ocean Awareness' project is a collaboration between researchers at the University of Victoria, IBM Canada and JASCO Applied Sciences with support from Oceans Network Canada (ONC), and Saturna Island Marine Research and Education Society (SIMRES). Researchers will be exploring the effects of marine noise from human activities and environmental changes on marine life in southern British Columbia. The research will be undertaken in two study areas: Boundary Pass in the southern Strait of Georgia (an area with heavy marine traffic and an important habitat for marine mammals); and Barkley Canyon on the west coast of Vancouver Island (an area with a high species diversity and recording of unique/rare vocal calls by marine mammals). In Boundary Pass we will be exploring the spatial and temporal interaction between marine vessels and marine mammals, and the sound habitat degradation due to noise from marine vessels. In Barkley Canyon we will be exploring the relationship between marine mammal sounds and environmental variables, and anthropogenic noise. The findings of this work will aim to inform future real-time data analysis and ultimately help inform managers, planners and policy makers. Acoustic and spatial data generated and used by this project will also be available to visualize and explore online for government, industry, NGOs and the public.

“海洋意识”项目是维多利亚大学、IBM加拿大公司和JASCO应用科学公司的研究人员在加拿大海洋网络（ONC）和土星岛海洋研究和教育协会（SIMRES）的支持下开展的合作。研究人员将在不列颠哥伦比亚省南部探索人类活动和环境变化产生的海洋噪音对海洋生物的影响。这项研究将在两个研究区域进行：格鲁吉亚海峡南部的边界通道（一个海洋交通繁忙和海洋哺乳动物重要栖息地的地区）;以及温哥华岛西海岸的巴克利峡谷（一个物种多样性高和记录海洋哺乳动物独特/罕见叫声的地区）。在边界通行证，我们将探索海洋船只和海洋哺乳动物之间的空间和时间的相互作用，以及由于海洋船只的噪音造成的声音栖息地退化。在巴克利峡谷，我们将探索海洋哺乳动物的声音和环境变量之间的关系，以及人为噪音。这项工作的结果旨在为未来的实时数据分析提供信息，并最终帮助管理人员、规划人员和政策制定者了解情况。该项目生成和使用的声学和空间数据也将提供给政府、工业、非政府组织和公众，供其在线可视化和探索。