Mitigating Impacts of Underwater Noise From Dredging on Beluga Whales in Cook Inlet, Alaska

Conference paper
Part of the Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology book series (AEMB, volume 730)

Abstract

The Port of Anchorage, near the head of Cook Inlet in south central Alaska, receives ~80% of all the goods that enter Alaska. Several glacial rivers deposit their large silt load into Cook Inlet, and each year the US Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) dredges ~1,650,000 m 3 of silt from in front of the port.

Keywords

Mitigation Measure Hearing Threshold Army Corps Auditory Threshold Hearing Sensitivity 
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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.United States Army Corps of EngineersElmendorf Air Force BaseUSA

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