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A setup for measuring spectral source levels (SSLs) of ships transiting along a seaway, the traffic density and shipping noise, is presented. The results feed shipping-noise modeling that reproduces the actual in situ observations to map shipping-noise variability over space and time for investigating its effects on aquatic organisms. The ship’s SSL databank allows sorting the different contributors to total shipping noise for assisting in exploring mitigation approaches (e.g., fleet composition, rerouting). Such an acoustic observatory was deployed since November 2012 for a complete annual cycle of measurements in the deep downstream part of the St. Lawrence Seaway.
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This work was funded by Fisheries and Oceans Canada, a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Discovery Grant to Yvan Simard, and other support to the authors. We thank and are grateful to several contributors to this St. Lawrence Seaway observatory project.
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Simard, Y., Roy, N., Gervaise, C., Giard, S. (2016). A Seaway Acoustic Observatory in Action: The St. Lawrence Seaway. In: Popper, A., Hawkins, A. (eds) The Effects of Noise on Aquatic Life II. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 875. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2981-8_128
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