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Virginia offshore wind developer agrees to avoid right whales for evaluation,...
Last fall, Dominion Virginia Power won the first federal lease for developing wind power off the coast of Virginia. As with all offshore energy and Naval activity on the east coast, one of the first...
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NATO sonar exercises, strandings in Crete
While recent years have seen an apparent reduction in the number of sonar-related strandings, one of the world’s hot spots for such tragedies saw a rash of strandings in recent days. Two different...
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Deepwater Wind agrees to limit activities to protect Right whales
Deepwater Wind, which recently won the first-ever competitive lease auction for US offshore wind, has signed an agreement with a consortium of environmental organizations that affirms its intention to...
View ArticleFantastic ocean noise presentation from Leila Hatch of NOAA
Earlier this month, Leila Hatch, one of NOAA’s leading experts on ocean acoustics and a long-time researcher in and around Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, presented an hour-long talk on...
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IMO adopts shipping noise guidelines
The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has adopted the first-ever comprehensive guidelines on shipping noise. The voluntary guidelines mark the first step toward a longer-term goal of bringing...
View ArticleNavy (mostly) prevails in LFA lawsuit
Eighteen months after a lawsuit challenged the latest 5-year authorization for the US Navy’s SURTASS-LFA low-frequency active sonar system, Federal Judge Elizabeth Laporte ruled in the Navy’s favor on...
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Airguns infect summer soundscapes in remote polar Atlantic Ocean
AEI lay summary of:Holger Klinck, Sharon L. Nieukirk, David K. Mellinger, Karolin Klinck, Haruyoshi Matsumoto, and Robert P. Dziak. Seasonal presence of cetaceans and ambient noise levels in polar...
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NJ sues Feds over academic seismic survey planned for July
The State of New Jersey has gone to federal court to block a seismic survey planned for this month fifteen miles offshore. The survey, funded by the National Science Foundation, received its final...
View ArticleSeabed mining facing high hurdles from NZ EPA
In recent years, there’s been a growing sense of concern in the ocean noise community about the worldwide emergence of plans for mining the seabed for a wide range of minerals. Some of these plans are...
View ArticleAEI poster for the Wind and Wildlife Research Meeting
Next week in Denver, the American Wind and Wildlife Institute and National Wind Coordinating Collaborative will be hosting their 10th Wind and Wildlife Research Meeting. For the second time, I put...
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