2012 Progress Report

Comments to Draft Environmental Impact Statements (DEIS):

• Atlantic Geophysical and Geological DEIS
• Atlantic Fleet Training and Testing DEIS
• Hawaii-Southern California Training and Testing DEIS
• ION Geophysical Arctic Surveys Environmental Assessment DEIS
• Arctic Oil and Gas activities Five Year Plan DEIS
• Diablo Canyon – PG&E Geophysical Surveys Comments

Conference attendance and presentations:

• Outer Continental Shelf summit in Washington DC (+lobbying)
• San Diego Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) “Impacts of noise on fish and invertebrates.”
• BOEM/US Navy “Marine Mammal Mapping” in Washington, DC (+lobbying)
• Oil and Gas Producers “Joint Industry Program” program review in DC
• Host committee for 2013 Impacts of Noise on Aquatic Life conference in Budapest, Hungary
• Blue Mind conference – presentation in San Francisco
• Acoustics Society Technical Planning Meeting in Kansas City, MO
• Acoustic Society Meeting – Arctic Sessions Chair. Kansas City, MO

Publications:

• “Historic noise levels in the ocean prior to industrialized whaling” M. Stocker, T. Reuterdahl. In review.
• Trade book “Hear Where We Are” accepted by Springer for publication in May 2013.

Outreach/Public information:

• Lecture to the Monterrey Bay chapter of the American Cetacean Society
• Peter Benchley Award host committee
• Launch of “DontBeABuckethead.org” collaborative website with NRDC and WWF with petition.
• “Hands Across the Sand” presentation in Sonoma County.
• Discovery Day Science Festival “Power of Sound” interactive display 20,000 visitors total (probably 500 participants at our booth).
• Blue Trails Design Jam – Finalist
• OCR Facebook presence – up to 65,000 “likes” and Shares”
• Over 40 OCR newsletters/blog posts for 2012
• OCR YouTube channel with bio-acoustics mini lectures.
• Two one-hour radio features on Pacifica Radio with Caroline Casey
• Acoustic Society Webcast on “Historic Noise Levels in the Ocean” picked up by LA Times, other papers, and Webnews.
• Information table at “Okeanos” multimedia ocean performance event in San Francisco,  CA
• “Fish Ears and Shrimp songs” presentation to Sonoma Surfriders.

Projects in various stages of development:

• Tracking whale sharks through monitoring of fish chorusing.
• Kurtosis metrics – Thresholds and Criteria projects
• Arctic Soundscapes – online output for Cornell University Arctic recordings
• Blue Trail – Arctic Soundscapes −  Large area bio-acoustic environment with a produced soundscape using recordings from various Arctic marine researchers
• Ocean soundscapes −  a bio-acoustic composed tableau traveling from Antarctica across the latitudes to the Arctic through biological and human sounds
• Exposure criteria program
• Bio-acoustics timeline on the OCR website.
• Ongoing educational productions for the OCRdotORG YouTube channel.
• Acoustical Forensics workshops
• Stranding interactive GIS Database