Go stealthy, go slow or go around? Join Charlotte Findlay this week as we look at the implications of shipping noise on marine mammals. With international maritime trade on the rise what approaches are being made to reduce this impact?

About Charlotte...

Charlotte completed her PhD thesis with the University of Highlands and Islands at the Scottish Association for Marine Science, Oban, on the risk to marine mammals as a result of exposure to acoustic deterrent (ADDs) noise at aquaculture sites. This project modelled the underwater noise from ADDs on the west coast of Scotland to assess the risk for marine mammal populations, specifically the risk of injury and habitat displacement in harbour porpoises and harbour seals. Charlotte an impulsive (e.g., seismic/piling etc.) underwater noise advisor for the UK at the JNCC in 2017.

Now, charlotte is a postdoctoral research fellow at Aarhus University, Denmark, on the EU H2020 SATURN and TANGO projects assessing the effects of underwater radiated noise (URN) from shipping to marine mammals.

EU H2020 SATURN is an EU-funded project researching solutions to the problem of underwater radiated noise caused by shipping and other vessels. This project aims to establish which sounds are most detrimental to aquatic species, how they are produced and propagated. It hopes to identify the short-term and cumulative long-term impacts of noise from shipping and boats on invertebrates, fish and marine mammals in rivers and the ocean. And finally to determine how to measure and reduce this impact.

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