Noise dose for aquatic animals: Preliminary estimates for two seismic surveys.

Session 1pAB: Animal Bioacoustics 1pAB8. Noise Dose for Aquatic Animals: Preliminary Estimates for Two Seismic Surveys

Two major air-gun exposure experiments have been conducted in Norwegian waters: The Nordkappbank experiment in 1992 [Can. J. Fish. Res. Aq. Sci., 1996, Vol. 53, pp. 2238-2249] and the Vesterålen experiment in 2009 [Fisken og Havet, 2010, Nr. 2, 76 pp. Inst. of Mar. Res.]. Although changes in catch rates and distribution of fish were observed in both cases, the responses were higher in the first...

Biotechnology and DNA vaccines for aquatic animals.

Biotechnology has been used extensively in the development of vaccines for aquaculture. Modern molecular methods such as polymerase chain reaction (PCR), cloning and microarray analysis have facilitated antigen discovery, construction of novel candidate vaccines, and assessments of vaccine efficacy, mode of action, and host response. This review focuses on DNA vaccines for finfish to illustrate...

A Volumeter for Respiration of Aquatic Animals

Extracting time-domain Green’s function estimates from ambient seismic noise

[1] It has been demonstrated experimentally and theoretically that an estimate of the Green’s function between two seismic stations can be obtained from the time-derivative of the long-time average cross correlation of ambient noise between these two stations. This TDGF estimate from just the noise field includes all tensor components of the Green’s function and these Green’s function estimates...

Community noise annoyance risk in two surveys.

Two noise annoyance surveys were performed in Bratislava, the capital of the Slovak Republic, in a ten-year interval (1989-1999). This was a period of political and socioeconomic transformation as well as of changes in traffic management. Equivalent noise levels were assessed at the dormitory (exposed group) and in the residential areas (100 measuring stations) where another group of students (...