The Effects of Noise on Aquatic Life
The Second International Conference on the Effects of Noise on Aquatic Life will take place in Ireland August 15-20, 2010. The main emphasis of the conference will be on defining the current state of knowledge. However, we will also assess progress in the
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Arthur N. Popper
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Anthony Hawkins
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The Effects of Noise on Aquatic Life
Editors Arthur N. Popper Department of Biology University of Maryland College Park, MD, USA [email protected]
Anthony Hawkins Loughine Limited Kincraig, Blairs Aberdeen, UK [email protected]
ISBN 978-1-4419-7310-8 e-ISBN 978-1-4419-7311-5 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-7311-5 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2011938466 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
This book is dedicated to our wives Helen Popper and Susan Hawkins We are grateful to them for putting up with us while we planned and organized the conference. Without their support, as well as their critical input in planning, the meeting could not have happened. Tony Hawkins and Art Popper
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Preface
These proceedings are the extended abstracts of the papers presented at the 2010 Second International Meeting on the Effects of Noise on Aquatic Life that took place in August in Cork, Ireland. The meeting brought together 248 scientists, regulators, and representatives from industry and environmental groups, representing 21 countries from all continents, to hear papers and discuss a broad range of topics focused on underwater sound and its effects on organisms living in the aquatic environment. This meeting followed from the immensely successful first conference that took place in 2007 in Nyborg, Denmark. The Cork meeting was, if anything, more successful than the first meeting in bringing people with different interests and experiences together and in allowing them to get to know one another, learn about new findings, and interact very successfully. The basis for the first two meetings, and the third which will be held in Europe in August 2013, arises from concern that has been growing since at least the early 1990s. Humans are adding substantial noise to the aquatic environment, and this noise might have an impact on the quality of life, and even the survival, of aquatic organisms. While the original concern focused on marine mammals, this has changed in more recent years to the point where equal emphasis is now being plac
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