Why we do this…

Comments to Draft Environmental Impact Statements (DEIS):

• 2015 – Atlantic Geophysical IHA Critique with Exhibits
• 2015 – NOAA Acoustic Guidelines Comments
• 2015 – Comments on 5 year offshore oil & gas leasing

Navy/NMFS Court Case:

• Stipulated Settlement Agreement and Order

Scientific Integrity Complaint:

• 2015 – BOEM Scientific Integrity Complaint
• 2015 – BOEM take tables reference
• 2015 – BOEM response
• 2015 – Request for Reconsideration of Determinations on Complaint

Conference attendance and presentations:

• Offshore Technologies Conference (OTC) in Houston, TX
• Presenter as an Energy Panelist at the Blue Vision Summit, Washington, DC
• Healthy Ocean Hill Day visits to CA representatives, Washington, DC
• Acoustics Society Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA
• International Standards Organization (ISO) standards meeting on underwater metrics and terminology
• New Bedford Whaling museum celebration of early underwater sound recordists Bill Watkins and Bill Scheville
• Workshop on detection, classification, localization, and population density estimates at Scripps Institute
• Speaker at the Inauguration of “The Sea Party”, Washington, DC
• Society of Marine Mammologists meeting

Policy/Publication

• ISO 18405 “Underwater Acoustics http://www.besttramadolonlinestore.com Terminology” and ISO 18406
  “Measurement of Noise

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  from Pile Driving” expected to be ready for ISO approval by the end of this year

Outreach/Public information:

• “Sound of the Bay” exhibit at Environmental Volunteers Interpretive Center (view online)
• “The Roots of Understanding Sound” Timeline
• OCR Facebook presence – up to 65,000 “likes” and Shares”
• Over 20 OCR newsletters/blog posts for 2015
• OCR YouTube channel with bio-acoustics mini lectures.
• Radio interview on Pacifica Radio with Caroline Casey
• OCR Website received 38,248 page views, and our blog received 9986 page views

Projects in various stages of development:

• Developing Citizen Science ocean noise collection project
• Zuvuya – Media Art Installation
• Kurtosis metrics – Thresholds and Criteria projects
• Arctic Soundscapes – online output for Cornell University Arctic recordings
• 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