title: Trouble-shooting deployment and recovery options for various stationary passive acoustic monitoring devices in both shallow- and deep-water applications.
abstract: Deployment of any type of measuring device into the ocean, whether to shallow or deeper depths, is accompanied by the hope that this equipment and associated data will be recovered. The ocean is harsh on gear. Salt water corrodes. Currents, tides, surge, storms, and winds collaborate to increase the severity of the conditions that monitoring devices will endure. All ocean-related research has encountered the situations described in this paper. In collating the details of various deployment and recovery scenarios related to stationary passive acoustic monitoring use in the ocean, it is the intent of this paper to share trouble-shooting successes and failures to guide future work with this gear to monitor marine mammal, fish, and ambient (biologic and anthropogenic) sounds in the ocean-in both coastal and open waters.
authors.affiliation: Geo-Marine Inc., 2201 K Avenue, Plano, Texas 75074, USA. kdudzinski@geo-marine.com
authors.forename: Kathleen M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Dudzinski
authors.forename: Shani J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Brown
authors.forename: Marc
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lammers
authors.forename: Klaus
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Lucke
authors.forename: David A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Mann
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Simard
authors.forename: Carrie C
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Wall
authors.forename: Marianne Helene
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Rasmussen
authors.forename: Edda Elísabet
authors.initials: EE
authors.lastname: Magnúsdóttir
authors.forename: Jakob
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Tougaard
authors.forename: Nina
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Eriksen
mesh_terms: D000162:Acoustics / Q000295:instrumentation*; D000818:Animals; D004784:Environmental Monitoring / Q000295:instrumentation*; D004867:Equipment Design; D004868:Equipment Failure; D009792:Oceans and Seas; D012623:Seawater; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted; D013018:Sound Spectrography; D014159:Transducers; D014828:Vocalization, Animal; D014907:Whales / Q000502:physiology*