Abstract:

The dataset contains subsampled data of calls from Cuvier's beaked whales, bottlenose dolphins, Risso's dolphins, and sperm whales from Buoy 1 (28° 39.0219’ N, 88° 31.5006’ W North site) and Buoy 2 (28° 25.2810’ N, 88° 37.1121’ W South site) between July 12 and September 30, 2015 by the LADC-GEMM consortium. The data are amplitude (voltage) measurements of marine mammals in the northern Gulf of Mexico as a function of time. They were used in an outreach program to train students in acoustic analysis; the code is located in dataset R4.x261.000:0012. The dataset also includes a ReadMe file with the filename and timestamp of the location of the data in the original raw file.

Suggested Citation:

Juliet Ioup, Kendal Leftwich. 2018. Sample vocalization data for four marine mammal species from passive acoustic recordings in the northern Gulf of Mexico, 2015. Distributed by: Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative Information and Data Cooperative (GRIIDC), Harte Research Institute, Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi. doi:10.7266/N7ZC80ZG

Publications:

Leftwich, K. M., Ioup, J. W., & Seab, C. G. (2019). Introducing Scholarly Research to High School Physics Students. The Physics Teacher, 57(5), 336–338. doi:10.1119/1.5098927

Purpose:

The dataset was used in an outreach program to train students in acoustic analysis.

Data Parameters and Units:

txt file: Timestamp (hour.minute.seconds; raw file location), filename (raw file), time (seconds; filtered file location) mat files: amplitude (millivolts)

Instruments:

EARS acoustic buoys

Individual Files: