Our PhD candidate, @philippawright.bsky.social, at #CWW2025 (Wind energy &vWildlife impacts) on the #PrePARED project:🐟Fish for thought: The nutritional quality of prey species with a developing offshore wind landscape @uniofstandrews.bsky.social Learn more about PrePARED here: owecprepared.org

Very proud to supervise the brilliant work @philippawright.bsky.social is doing as part of her PhD. 🌟 If you're at CWW, and are interested in the nutritional quality of fish 🐟 around offshore wind farms, reach out to Philippa! @seamammalresearch.bsky.social @smruc.bsky.social @bioss.bsky.social

🚨 Milestone Alert! Last week, our CAB systems surpassed 5,000 days of listening beneath the waves — tracking whales, vessels, and more throughout the Pacific Northwest! #CoastalAcousticBuoy

Check out our latest blog post! ➡️ On using our Coastal Acoustic Buoys for the real-time passive acoustic mitigation monitoring of dolphins during a port's dredging campaign in the north of Scotland. #passiveacoustics #CAB #mitigationmonitoring #ArdersierPort www.smruconsulting.com/blog/real-ti...

Hot off the press: "A call for comparable measurements of underwater radiated noise related to vessel speed reduction programs" in @asa-news.bsky.social pubs.aip.org/asa/jel/arti... #VSR #URN

PrePARED webinar now recorded online! ➡️ Report 007, "Challenges & Solutions for Offshore Wind Farm Cumulative Effects Assessments for Marine Mammals" by SMRU Consulting's Rachael Sinclair. #PrePAREDProject #OWEC #CrownEstateScotland owecprepared.org/outputs/ www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dXQ...

Great to see our Coastal Acoustic Buoys, (CAB Guardian & CAB Sentinels) included in this review of cutting edge tech for marine mammal monitoring by Institute of Marine Engineering, Science & Technology (@imarest.bsky.social ) & DEFRA www.imarest.org/resource/mar...

Happy World Orca Day everyone! We have just picked up SRKW on our Lime Kiln hydrophone as of 12:07 p.m. and the Haro Strait and Boundary Pass voluntary ship Slowdowns are now in effect! #WorldOrcaDay #SRKW #ECHOProgram

🐋Proud to have contributed to this independent science panel on #SRKW recovery, alongside colleagues from @raincoast.org @georgiastraitbc.bsky.social @seadocsociety.bsky.social @nrdc.org @oceansinitiative.org @wwfcanada.org @davidsuzukifdn.bsky.social @ubcoceans.bsky.social @sfuscience.bsky.social

📣 PrePARED WEBINAR 📣 The Predators & Prey Around Renewable Energy Developments (#PrePARED) project is hosting a webinar on the Challenges & Solutions for Offshore Wind Farm Cumulative Effects Assessments for Marine Mammals. 🗓️ Tue 15 Jul, 12-12:30 (BST) events.teams.microsoft.com/event/c2565c...

Check out our new Notes from the field blog post about deploying 30 PAM moorings at the Dogger Bank Wind Farm! www.smruconsulting.com/blog/notes-f... #Fieldwork #PAM #OffshoreWind

New output from the ONR/LMR-funded #ACCURATE project by @popigk.bsky.social in @asa-news.bsky.social #passiveacoustics #densityestimation #beampattern #biosonar @uniofstandrews.bsky.social @seamammalresearch.bsky.social @au.dk #CREEM #JASA doi.org/10.1121/10.0...

Proud to have contributed to the @wwfnederland.bsky.social #BlueCorridors project! www.linkedin.com/posts/erich-...

New report on cumulative effects assessments (CEAs) by Rachael Sinclair for the #PrePAREDProject. Here, we recommend guidance for the standardization of CEAs, in order to make them more representative, comparable, thus enabling a more streamlined consenting process. owecprepared.org/wp-content/u...

Looking forward to attending this hosted by the #PrePAREDProject (Predators and Prey Around Renewable Energy Developments) team on Wednesday 21 May from 12 - 12:30pm GMT+1. You can register here: rb.gy/gav951 #offshorewind #renewables #thecrownestate @exeter.ac.uk

New paper: Darias-O'Hara et al. "Behavioural response thresholds for the assessment of noise impact on Antarctic marine mammal species", Marine Policy. @uniofstandrews.bsky.social @au.dk @seamammalresearch.bsky.social Funded [email protected] www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Happy Friday! Here are some nice #SRKW vocals our #LimeKiln hydrophone recorded in March. @thewhalemuseum.bsky.social #HaroStrait

New paper: Darias-O'Hara et al. "Behavioural response thresholds for the assessment of noise impact on Antarctic marine mammal species", Marine Policy. @uniofstandrews.bsky.social @au.dk @seamammalresearch.bsky.social Funded [email protected] www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Hello J63!! Earth Day was extra special this year! In addition to kicking off the first day of Storming the Sound with Salmon, members of the Orca Conservancy team got first looks at the newest calf in J Pod, J63! 📷 J40 with new calf J63 - taken by @intertidalkendy.bsky.social

Check out this fantastic article for an eloquent explanation of our recent publication in @science.org www.acsh.org/news/2025/03...

Great talk by @kateywhyte.bsky.social from @bioss.bsky.social at the SOI today. So 👏 much 👏 data 👏 Such an exciting project! @uniofstandrews.bsky.social

Welcome to our new Managing Director, Dr Cormac Booth www.linkedin.com/posts/cormac...

We're proud to have our CAB Guardians for real-time passive acoustic mitigation monitoring in the Moray Firth. Here's a video from the recent deployment for Haventus, with SMRU Consulting staff Chloe, Jack & Sam. www.linkedin.com/posts/havent...

🔊 Paper alert! 🐬🎧 Noise of high-speed vessels 🚤 impairs the #biosonar ability of #harbourporpoises 🐬 - making it more difficult for them to 🤯 sense surroundings, 🧭 navigate and 🐟 hunt prey within several hundred meters. 🥳Huge contribution to understanding masking effects! 🌐 doi.org/10.1242/jeb....

🌊🔊 #QuietSound is tackling underwater noise pollution to protect Southern Resident killer whales! 🐋 Check out IMarEST on the latest efforts to help these majestic creatures. 🌊🔊 Read more: www.imarest.org/resource/mp-... #MarineLife #KillerWhales #Conservation #underwaternoise

Our acoustic monitoring station at #LimeKiln recorded a magnitude 4.5 earthquake 03/03/25 at 05:02 a.m.! The epicenter was located 30 km away on the east coast of Orcas Island & the earthquake was loud enough underwater to cause audio clipping (remove headphones!) #TheWhaleMuseum #HaroStrait #PAM

To celebrate the recent International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we spoke with three of our scientists: Magda, Meadhbh, and Sam. Read about their career journeys, inspirations and advice for aspiring scientists here: www.smruconsulting.com/blog/celebra... #womeninscience #wimms

🦭 Have you spotted a grey seal killing or eating harbour seals or grey seal pups in the UK? Please send your footage and reports to [email protected] ! 🦭

New publication on #humpback acoustics, in @royalsociety.org from our project scientist, @emarwood.bsky.social @seamammalresearch.bsky.social @ellengarland.bsky.social @lrendell.bsky.social @francae.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Proud supervisor moment! Ella's masters thesis paper on Okinawa humpback #whale #song complexity and evolution is out today in RSOS. Awesome collaboration with Nozomi Kobayashi et al. @francae.bsky.social @lrendell.bsky.social @seamammalresearch.bsky.social doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

New paper! Humpback song evolution in the waters of Okinawa. Great to see this out, another #MSc_MMS_St_A Marine Mammal Science MSc thesis published 🥳 congratulations to Ella and Nozomi. 🐋🦑🧪 tl;dr:

See our blogpost on tracking seals around a tidal turbine using the new multibeam sonar processing modules in PAMGuard: appliedecologistsblog.com/2025/02/06/s...

We are hiring a Managing Director! Lead our global organisation at the forefront of marine mammal science, with teams in Scotland, the USA, and Canada. Applications close 10 February 25. Learn more: ow.ly/MV5350UKRv7

Another paper using PAMGuard. For this one we developed a bespoke PAMGuard module to process multibeam sonar data in order to track seals around an operating tidal turbine. All code and built modules at www.pamguard.org. @jessmontabaranom.bsky.social @seamammalresearch.bsky.social

📢 Webinar alert! I'll be presenting my PhD research as part of the Hebridean Whale and Dolphin Trust Winter Webinar series on Weds 22th Jan. Sign up here on Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.com/e/killer-wha...

New research from the NMMF, the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment and LKARTS-Norway shows #minke whales can hear sound frequencies as high as 45-90 kHz, higher than previously believed and one of the first real-world measurements of hearing in baleen whales. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

New report published - on combining DAS & PAM data to improve density estimates of cetaceans 🐋 #DigitalAerialSurvey #PassiveAcousticMonitoring #MarineDirectorate @uniofstandrews.bsky.social #CREEM #HiDefAerialSurveying @smruc.bsky.social www.gov.scot/publications...

New #PrePAREDProject outputs from @uniofstandrews.bsky.social + @smruc.bsky.social. Philippa Wright & team have generated >400 new energy density estimates from 29 prey species. This ongoing work aids in assessing impacts of disturbed foraging on marine predators. owecprepared.org/wp-content/u...

I've started a marine mammal reseachers starter pack. It focuses on researchers and labs studying marine mammals. Feel free to ask to be added :) go.bsky.app/MWiR9uS