New publication: Spatial Impact of Wind Farm Construction on Harbor Porpoise Detectability
Ocean Science Consulting is pleased to announce publication of their latest peer-reviewed paper ‘Spatial Impact of Wind Farm Construction on Harbor Porpoise Detectability’, published in The Effects of Noise on Aquatic Life. Authors are: Nienke C. F. van Geel, Steven Benjamins, Brett Marmo, Jacob Nabe-Nielsen, Anja Wittich, Denise Risch, Darren Jameson, Victoria L. G. Todd, […]
Publication of our article on binning-based inter-click interval data of free-ranging harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena)
OSC is pleased to announce publication of the article Presentation of binning-based inter-click interval data from passive acoustic monitoring of free-ranging harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) (Ruffert et al., 2020) in the peer-reviewed journal International Journal of Acoustics and Vibration (IJAV). This article was co-authored by OSC’s Managing Directors, Dr Victoria Todd and Ian Todd, and […]
OSC report on Hector’s and Māui dolphins available online
Ocean Science Consulting NZ (Asia-Pacific) Limited (OSC-NZ) recently collaborated with colleagues at JASCO Applied Sciences (JASCO) and Cawthron Institute (New Zealand) to write a detailed literature review (Lucke et al., 2019) of potential non-fishing threats faced by Hector’s (Cephalorhynchus hectori hectori) and Māui dolphin (C. h. maui). The review was commissioned by Department of Conservation […]
MMO & PAM Handbook hailed as industry ‘bible’
The Marine Mammal Observer & Passive Acoustic Monitoring Handbook, written by Dr Victoria Todd, Ian Todd, Jane (Gardiner) Warley and Erica (Morrin) Chapman and drawing on their extensive collective experience working for OSC, has been hailed as a ‘bible’ for the industry in a review published in Marine Mammal Science. The Marine Mammal Observer & Passive […]
New publication: Meals on wheels? A decade of megafaunal visual and acoustic observations from offshore Oil & Gas rigs and platforms in the North and Irish Seas
OSC’s new paper ‘Meals on wheels? A decade of megafaunal visual and acoustic observations from offshore Oil & Gas rigs and platforms in the North and Irish Seas’ was published by PLoS One this month, and is available to download here. The paper presents a decade of visual and acoustic detections of marine megafauna around […]
