A Parametric Analysis and Sensitivity Study of the Acoustic Propagation for Renewable Energy

As countries explore renewable energy opportunities, offshore wind farms are being developed along coastlines. To construct these wind farms, piles are driven into the seafloor as foundational structures for the turbines. Pile driving involves risk of noise pollution that can affect marine fauna. To mitigate these risks, risk assessments and...

Population-level consequences of seismic surveys on fishes An interdisciplinary challenge

Bathymetric diffraction of basin-scale hydroacoustic signals

The ocean is nearly transparent to low frequency sound permitting the observation of distant events such as earthquakes or explosions at fully basin scales. For very low frequency the ocean acts as a shallow-water waveguide and lateral variability in bathymetry can lead to out-of-plane effects. In this paper, data from the International...