publications

Publications based on SWFSC Sonobuoy Recordings and Playback Studies

Jones, B., Rankin, S., & Archer, E. (2011). Fin whale acoustics as a tool to assess stock structure in the North Pacific. U.S. Department of Commerce, National Marine Fisheries Service Technical Memorandum NOAA-TM-NMFS-SWFSC-485. 23 pp. PDF

Miller, B. S., Wotherspoon, S., Rankin, S., Calderan, S., Leaper, R., & Keating, J. L. (2018). Estimating drift of directional sonobuoys from acoustic bearings. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 143(1), EL25-EL30. doi.org/10.1121/1.5020621

Oleson, E. M., Barlow, J., Gordon, J., Rankin, S., & Hildebrand, J. A. (2003). LOW FREQUENCY CALLS OF BRYDE’S WHALES. Marine Mammal Science, 19(2), 407-419. doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-7692.2003.tb01119.x

Ou, H., Au, W. W., Van Parijs, S., Oleson, E. M., & Rankin, S. (2015). Discrimination of frequency-modulated Baleen whale downsweep calls with overlapping frequencies. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 137(6), 3024-3032.//doi.org/10.1121/1.4919304

Rankin, S. (2008). Acoustic studies of marine mammals during seven years of combined visual and acoustic line-transect surveys for cetaceans in the eastern and central Pacific Ocean. U.S. Department of Commerce, National Marine Fisheries Service Technical Memorandum NOAA-TM-NMFS-SWFSC-429. 58 pp. PDF

Rankin, S., & Barlow, J. (2007). Vocalizations of the sei whale Balaenoptera borealis off the Hawaiian Islands. Bioacoustics, 16(2), 137-145. PDF

Rankin, S., Barlow, J., & Stafford, K. M. (2006). Blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) sightings and recordings south of the Aleutian Islands. Marine Mammal Science, 22(3), 708-713. doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-7692.2006.00054.x

Rankin, S., Miller, B., Crance, J. L., Sakai, T., & Keating, J. L. (2019). Sonobuoy acoustic data collection during cetacean surveys. U.S. Department of Commerce, National Marine Fisheries Service Technical Memorandum NOAA-TM-NMFS-SWFSC-614. 36 pp. PDF

Thode, A. M., Sakai, T., Michalec, J., Rankin, S., Soldevilla, M. S., Martin, B., & Kim, K. H. (2019). Displaying bioacoustic directional information from sonobuoys using “azigrams”. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 146(1), 95-102. doi.org/10.1121/1.511481

Wade, P.R., De Robertis, A., Hough, K.R., Booth, R., Kennedy, A., LeDuc, R.G., Munger, L., Napp, J., Shelden, K.E.W., Rankin, S. and Vasquez, O. (2011). Rare detections of North Pacific right whales in the Gulf of Alaska, with observations of their potential prey. Endangered Species Research, 13(2), 99-109.doi.org/10.3354/esr00324

Wade, P., Heide-Jørgensen, M.P., Shelden, K., Barlow, J., Carretta, J., Durban, J., LeDuc, R., Munger, L., Rankin, S., Sauter, A. and Stinchcomb, C. (2006). Acoustic detection and satellite-tracking leads to discovery of rare concentration of endangered North Pacific right whales. Biology letters, 2(3), 417-419. doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2006.0460