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Gathering the data that are analyzed and presented here!

Beam Reach wiki

A wiki supporting research projects of the Beam Reach Marine Science and Sustainability School. (To contribute, please request an account from info <at> beamreach <dot> org...)

Science

Equipment

• Hydrophones
• Recording hardware
• Underwater speaker
• Echosounder
• Fish tags and receivers

Data

Links to Beam Reach science narratives, logs, and raw data. Not all raw data files are available on line; please contact us with requests to upload audio files of interest you find in the narratives or logs. You may find valuable context (e.g. photos, audio) in the associated science blogbook posts, though the text is the same as the narrative entries.

• 2012: spring | Lime Kiln data sheets
• 2011: spring | fall | Lime Kiln data sheets
• 2010: spring | fall
• 2009: spring | science narrative | science log
• 2008: spring | science narrative | science log | raw data (upon request)
• 2007: fall 2007 data directory
• fall 2006, fall 2005...
• all sounds
• all images
• Vimeo video archive

Projects and processing

Useful tools for processing:

• Class resources and literature

On-going group research projects:

• localization tests
• Vocalization attributable to individual whales
• Echosounder surveys of salmon, other fish, and plankton
• Ling cod acoustic tagging
• Automated photo identification
• Puget Soundscape
• Salish Sea hydrophone network (Collaboration with the Whale Museum and others)
• Fish and invertebrate sounds of the Pacific Northwest

Space for individual research projects (e.g. externships)

• Your project here?

Published or public results

• Past student research papers and presentations
• Source level of calls from Southern resident killer whales (Val Veirs and Scott Veirs, 2005)
• Ambient noise in killer whale critical habitat (Val Veirs and Scott Veirs, 2006-2009)
• Commercial shipping noise in Haro Strait (Scott Veirs and Val Veirs, 2006)
• Fall 2007 mother+calf localization (Val Veirs et al, 2008)
• Information theory applied to southern resident killer whale calls (Kenna Lehmann et al., 2008)
• Killer whales increase their call amplitude in response to vessel noise (Holt et al, 2009)
• Preliminary analyses of 200 kHZ echosounder data from Haro Strait (2009, Poster at the Puget Sound Georgia Basin Ecosystem Conference, talk at 2009 ASA Portland)
• Acoustic characterization of killer whale habitat (Veirs, S., Veirs, V., and Wood, J., 2009; presented at the Transboundary Naturalist Workshop)
• 2011 ASA Seattle presentations (blog synopsis | archived meeting program PDF(3.5 MB))
  • Orca hearing weighted decibels: Underwater sound measurements appropriate to studies of Orcinus (killer whales) (Val Veirs, David Bain, and Scott Veirs; Abstract | PDF )
  • Masking of southern resident killer whale signals by commercial ship noise (Scott R. Veirs and Val R. Veirs)
  • Shipping noise signatures (Abstract of talk by Val Veirs, Scott Veirs, and Jason Wood)
  • Are click rates in killer whales an indicator of group behavior and foraging hotspots? (Erica L. Beneze, Jason Wood, Scott Veirs , and Val Veirs)
  • Shipping noise and vocal compensation by Southern Resident killer whales: Haro Strait as a study case. Jason D. Wood (SMRU Ltd.), Peggy Foreman (Univ. of Washington), Val Veirs, and Scott Veirs
• Ship noise in an urban estuary extends to frequencies used for echolocation by endangered killer whales (Veirs, Veirs, and Wood, 2015; PeerJ Pre-print)
• 2016 lecture: Salish Sea Bioacoustics:Insights from 10 years of Beam Reach Research (Rick Keil's Marine Pollution Class; University of Washington, Seattle, WA; emaze presentation; 1/22/2016, 3:30-5pm)

Sustainability

Issues of interest

Tidal power monitoring

Orca-boat rules

Ship quieting technology

Pile driving noise and mitigation

Oil spill and ship collision prevention

Rational design of marine protected areas in the San Juan Archipelago

Salmon conservation and dam removal

Salmon - killer whale connections

Salish Sea sonar chronology

Sustainability ship design

We're part of the solution

Service projects

• Cleaning and improving The Whale Museum's acoustic "observatory" in the lighthouse at Lime Kiln State Park (photo gallery)
• Restoring wetlands with the San Juan County Land Bank (Facebook photos: 1, 2
• Helping grow our food on Lacrover and Sweet Earth organic farms
• Educating boaters about whale watching with Sound Watch
• Assisting with educational outreach and school programs of The Whale Museum (blog post)
• Maintaining wildlife rehabilitation facilities at Wolf Hollow (blog post)
• Tagging and mapping creosote logs
• Participating in a 350.org global project to raise awareness about global warming (blog post)

Sustainability reports

Put links to the sustainability_log.xls files here

Fun stuff

Intro to wiki editing

• MediaWiki FAQ
• How to contribute (editing basics)

Wiki administration

• Configuration settings list
• MediaWiki release mailing list

Consult the User's Guide for information on using the wiki software.