title: Swim track kinematics and calling behavior attributed to Bryde's whales on the Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility.
abstract: Time difference of arrival methods for acoustically localizing multiple marine mammals have been applied to recorded data from the Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility in order to localize and track calls attributed to Bryde's whales. Data were recorded during the months of August-October 2014, and 17 individual tracks were identified. Call characteristics were compared to other Bryde's whale vocalizations from the Pacific Ocean, and locations of the recorded signals were compared to published visual sightings of Bryde's whales in the Hawaiian archipelago. Track kinematic information, such as swim speeds, bearing information, track duration, and directivity, was recorded for the species. The intercall interval was also established for most of the tracks, providing cue rate information for this species that may be useful for future acoustic density estimate calculations.
authors.affiliation: SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific, 53560 Hull Street, San Diego, California 92152-5001, USA.
authors.forename: Tyler A
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: Helble
authors.affiliation: SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific, 53560 Hull Street, San Diego, California 92152-5001, USA.
authors.forename: E Elizabeth
authors.initials: EE
authors.lastname: Henderson
authors.affiliation: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093-0701, USA.
authors.forename: Glenn R
authors.initials: GR
authors.lastname: Ierley
authors.affiliation: National Marine Mammal Foundation, 2240 Shelter Island Drive, Suite 200, San Diego, California 92106-3131, USA.
authors.forename: Stephen W
authors.initials: SW
authors.lastname: Martin