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2024
Kather, V., Seipel, F., Berges, B., Davis, G. , Gibson, C., Harvey, M., Henry, L., Stevenson, A., and Risch, D. 2024. Development of a machine learning detector for North Atlantic humpback whale song. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 155(3).
https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0025275

McKenna, M.F., Rowell, T.J., Margolina, T., Baumann-Pickering, S., Solsona-Berga, A., Adams, J.D., Joseph, K., Kim, E.B., Kok, A.C.M., Kügler, A., Lammers, M.O., Merkens, K., Peavy Reeves, L., Southall, B.L., Stimpert, A.K., Barkowski, J., Thompson, M.A., Van Parijs, S., Wall, C.C., Zang, E.J., and Hatch, L.T. (2024). Understanding vessel noise across a network of marine protected areas. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 196(4):369.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-024-12497-2

Rankin, S., Sakai, T., Archer, F.I., Barlow, J., Cholewiak, D., DeAngelis, A.I., McCullough, J.L.K., Oleson, E.M., Simonis, A.E., Soldevilla, M., and Trickey, J.S. 2024. Open-source machine learning BANTER acoustic classification of beaked whale echolocation pulses. Ecological Informatics, 80.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2024.102511

Roberts, J.J., Yack, T.M., Fujioka, E., Halpin, P.N., Baumgartner, M.F., Boisseau, O., Chavez-Rosales, S., Cole, T.V., Cotter, M.P., Davis, G.E., DiGiovanni Jr., R.A., Ganley, L.C., Garrison, L.P., Good, C.P., Gowan, T.A., Jackson, K.A., Kenney, R.D., Khan, C.B., Knowlton, A.R., Kraus, S.D., Lockhart, G.G., Lomac-MacNair, K.S., Mayo, C.A., McKenna, B.E., McLellan, W.A., Nowacek, D.P., O’Brien, O., Pabst, D.A., Palka, D.L., Patterson, E.M., Pendleton, D.E., Quintana-Rizzo, E., Record, N.R., Redfern, J.V., Rickard, M.E., White, M., Whitt, A.D., and Zoidis, A.M. 2024. North Atlantic right whale density surface model for the US Atlantic evaluated with passive acoustic monitoring. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 732:167-192.
https://doi.org/10.3354/meps14547

Westell, A., Rowell, T.J., Posdaljian, N., Solsona-Berga, A., Van Parijs, S.M. , and DeAngelis, A.I.. 2024. Acoustic presence and demographics of sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) off southern New England and near a US offshore wind energy area. ICES Journal of Marine Science, fsae012.
https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsae012

2023
Ballance, L.T., Pitman, R.L., Barlow, J., Pusser, T., DeAngelis, A.I. , Hayslip, C., Irvine, L., Steel, D., Baker, C.S., Gillies, D., Baumann-Pickering, S., Trickey, J.S., and Gisborne B. 2023. Acoustic recordings, biological observations, and genetic identification of a rare(?) beaked whale in the North Pacific: Mesoplodon carlhubbsi. Marine Mammal Science: 1-20.
https://doi.org/10.1111/mms.13059

Davis, G.E., Tennant, S., and Van Parijs, S.M. 2023. Upcalling behaviour and patterns in North Atlantic right whales, implications for monitoring protocols during wind energy development. ICES Journal of Marine Science, fsad174.
https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsad174

Diogou, N., Halliday, W. D., Dosso, S. E., Mouy, X., Niemi, A., and Insley, S. J. 2023. Bowhead whale year-round acoustic presence and habitat associations in the Amundsen Gulf, Western Canadian Arctic, 2018–2019. Progress in Oceanography 213, 103004.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2023.103004

Harrison, J., Ferguson, M. C., New, L., Cleary, J., Curtice, C., DeLand, S., Fujioka, E., Halpin, P. N., Tyson Moore, R. B., and Van Parijs, S. M. 2023. Biologically Important Areas II for cetaceans within U.S. and adjacent waters - Updates and the application of a new scoring system. Frontiers in Marine Science 10:1081893.
https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2023.1081893

Holdman, A. K., Tregenza, N., Van Parijs, S. M., & DeAngelis, A. I. (2023). Acoustic ecology of harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) between two US offshore wind energy areas. ICES Journal of Marine Science, fsad150.
https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsad150

Kanes, K.S.J., Dosso, S.E., Lado Insua, T.L., Mouy, X., Bateman, A. 2023. Seasonal and diel patterns in Pacific white-sided dolphin (Lagenorhynchus obliquidens) pulsed calls near Barkley Canyon. Marine Mammal Science, 1–16.
https://doi.org/10.1111/mms.13055

Mouy, X., Black, M., Cox, K., Qualley, J., Dosso, S., and Juanes, F. 2023. Identification of fish sounds in the wild using a set of portable audio-video arrays. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 14.
https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.14095

Sigourney, D. B., DeAngelis, A., Cholewiak, D., Palka, D. 2023. Combining passive acoustic data from a towed hydrophone array with visual line transect data to estimate abundance and availability bias of sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus). PeerJ 11: e15850.
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15850

Transue, L., Monczak, A., Tribble, C., Marian, A., Fair, P., Ballenger, J., Balmer, B. and Montie, E.W. 2023. The Biological and Anthropogenic Soundscape of an Urbanized Port–the Charleston Harbor Estuary, South Carolina, USA. PLoS ONE 18:4, p.e0283848.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0283848

Van Hoeck, R. V. Rowell, T. J., Dean, M. J., Rice, A. N., and Van Parijs, S. 2023. Comparing Atlantic Cod Temporal Spawning Dynamics across a Biogeographic Boundary: Insights from Passive Acoustic Monitoring. Marine and Coastal Fisheries: Dynamics, Management, and Ecosystem Science 15:e10226.
https://doi.org/10.1002/mcf2.10226

Van Parijs, S. M., DeAngelis, A. I., Aldrich, T., Gordon, R., Holdman, A., McCordic, J. A., Mouy, X., Rowell, T.J., Tennant, S., Westell, A., Davis, G. E. 2023. Establishing baselines for predicting change in ambient sound metrics, marine mammal, and vessel occurrence within a US offshore wind energy area. ICES Journal of Marine Science 0: 1-14.
https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsad148

2022
DeAngelis, A. I., Barlow, J., Gillies, D., and Ballance, L. T. 2022. Echolocation depths and acoustic foraging behavior of Baird’s beaked whales (Berardius bairdii) based on towed hydrophone recordings. Marine Mammal Science: 12958.
https://doi.org/10.1111/mms.12958

DeAngelis A. I., Van Parijs, S. M., Barkowski, J., Baumann-Pickering, S., Burger, K., Davis, G. E., Joseph, J., Kok, A. C. M., Kügler, A., Lammers, M., Margolina, T., Pegg, N., Rice, A., Rowell, T. J., Ryan, J. P., Stokoe, A., Zang, E., and Hatch, L. 2022. Exploring marine mammal presence across seven US national marine sanctuaries. Frontiers in Remote Sensing 3:970401.
https://doi.org/10.3389/frsen.2022.970401

Delarue, J. J.-Y., Moors-Murphy, H. B., Kowarski, K. A., Davis, G. E., Urazghildiiev, I. R., and Martin, S. B. 2022. Acoustic occurrence of baleen whales, particularly blue, fin, and humpback whales, off eastern Canada, 2015-2017. Endangered Species Research 47: 265-289.
https://doi.org/10.3354/esr01176

Stanistreet, J. E., Beslin, W. A. M., Kowarski, K., Martin, S. B., Westell, A., and Moors-Murphy, H. B. 2022. Changes in the acoustic activity of beaked whales and sperm whales recorded during a naval training exercise off eastern Canada. Scientific Reports 12: 1973.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-05930-4

Westell, A., Sakai, T., Valtierra, R., Van Parijs, S. M., Cholewiak, D., and DeAngelis, A. 2022. Sperm whale acoustic abundance and dive behaviour in the western North Atlantic. Scientific Reports 12:16821.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-20868-3

2021
Baumgartner, M. F., Ball, K., Partan, J., Pelletier, L., Bonnell, J., Hotchkin, C., Corkeron, P. J., and Van Parijs, S. M. 2021. Near real-time detection of low-frequency baleen whale calls from an autonomous surface vehicle: Implementation, evaluation, and remaining challenges. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 149:2950.
https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0004817

Haver, S. M., Adams, J. D., Hatch, L. T., Van Parijs, S. M., Dziak, R. P., Haxel, J., Heppell, S. A., McKenna, M. F., Mellinger, D.K., and Gedamke, J. 2021. Large Vessel Activity and Low-Frequency Underwater Sound Benchmarks in United States Waters. Frontiers in Marine Science 8:669528.
https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.669528

Kendall, M. S., Williams, B. L., Winship, A. J., Carson, M., Grissom, K., Rowell, T. J., Stanley, J., and Roberson, K. W. 2021. Winds, waves, warm waters, weekdays, and which ways boats are counted influence predicted visitor use at an offshore fishing destination. Fisheries Research 237: 105879.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fishres.2021.105879

McCordic, J. A., DeAngelis, A. I., Kline, L. R., McBride, C., Rodgers, G. G., Rowell, T. J., Smith, J., Stanley, J. A., Stokoe, A., and Van Parijs, S. M. 2021. Biological Sound Sources Drive Soundscape Characteristics of Two Australian Marine Parks. Frontiers in Marine Science 8: 669412.
https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.669412

McKenna, M. F., Baumann-Pickering, S., Kok, A. C. M., Oestreich, W. K., Adams, J. D., Barkowski, J., Fristrup, K. M., Goldbogen, J. A., Joseph, J., Kim, E. B., Kügler, A., Lammers, M. O., Margolina, T., Peavey Reeves, L. E., Rowell, T. J., Stanley J. A., Stimpert, A. K., Zang, E. J., Southall, B. L., Wall, C. C., Van Parijs, S., and Hatch, L. T. 2021. Advancing the Interpretation of Shallow Water Marine Soundscapes. Frontiers in Marine Science 8:719258.
https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.719258

Pegg, N., Roca, I. T., Cholewiak, D., Davis, G. E., and Van Parijs, S. M. 2021. Evaluating the Efficacy of Acoustic Metrics for Understanding Baleen Whale Presence in the Western North Atlantic Ocean. Frontiers in Marine Science 8:749802.
https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.749802

Ramírez-Valdez, A., Rowell, T. J., Dale, K. E., Craig, M. T., Allen, L. G., Villaseñor-Derbez, J. C., Cisneros-Montemayor, A. M., Hernández-Velasco, A., Torre, J., Hofmeister, J., and Erisman, B. E. 2021. Asymmetry across international borders: Research, fishery and management trends and economic value of the giant sea bass (Stereolepis gigas). Fish and Fisheries, 00:1-20.
https://doi.org/10.1111/faf.12594

Stanley, J. A., Van Parijs, S. M., Davis, G. E., Sullivan, M., and Hatch, L. T. 2021. Monitoring spatial and temporal soundscape features within ecologically significant US National Marine Sanctuaries. Ecological Applications, e02439.
https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.2439

Van Parijs, S. M., Baker, K., Carduner, J., Daly, J., Davis, G. E., Esch, C., Guan, S., Scholik-Schlomer, A., Sisson, N. B., and Staaterman, E. 2021. NOAA and BOEM Minimum Recommendations for Use of Passive Acoustic Listening Systems in Offshore Wind Energy Development Monitoring and Mitigation Programs. Frontiers in Marine Science 8:760840.
https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.760840

Weiss, S. G., Cholewiak, D., Frasier, K. E., Trickey, J. S., Baumann-Pickering, S., Hildebrand, J. A., and Van Parijs, S. M. 2021. Monitoring the acoustic ecology of the shelf break of Georges Bank, Northwestern Atlantic Ocean: New approaches to visualizing complex acoustic data. Marine Policy 130:104570.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2021.104570

2020
Baumgartner, M. F., Bonnell, J., Corkeron, P. J., Van Parijs, S. M., Hotchkin, C, Hodges, B. A., Bort Thornton, J., Mensi, B. L., and Bruner, S. M. 2020. Slocum gliders provide accurate near real-time estimates of baleen whale presence from human-reviewed passive acoustic detection information. Frontiers in Marine Science 7: 100.
https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2020.00100

Caiger, P. E., Dean, M. J., DeAngelis, A. I., Hatch, L. T., Rice, A. N., Stanley, J. A., Tholke, C., Zemeckis, D. R., and Van Parijs, S. M. 2020. A decade of monitoring Atlantic cod Gadus morhua spawning aggregations in Massachusetts Bay using passive acoustics. Marine Ecological Progress Series 635: 89-103.
https://doi.org/10.3354/meps13219

Davis, G. E., Baumgartner M. F., Corkeron, P. J., Bell, J., Berchok, C., Bonnell, J.M., Bort Thornton, J., Brault, S., Buchanan, G. A., Cholewiak, D. M., Clark, C. W., Delarue, J., Hatch, L. T., Klinck, H., Kraus, S. D., Martin, B., Mellinger, D. K., Moors‐Murphy, H., Nieukirk, S., Nowacek, D. P., Parks, S. E., Parry, D., Pegg, N., Read, A. J., Rice, A. N., Risch, D., Scott, A., Soldevilla, M. S., Stafford, K. M., Stanistreet, J. E., Summers, E., Todd, S., and Van Parijs, S. M. 2020. Exploring movement patterns and changing distributions of baleen whales in the western North Atlantic using a decade of passive acoustic data. Global Change Biology 26(9): 4812-4840.
https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15191

Haver, S. M., Rand, Z., Hatch, L. T., Lipski, D., Dziak, R. P., Gedamke, J., Haxel, J., Heppell, S. A., Jahncke, J., McKenna, M. F., Mellinger, D. K., Oestreich, W. K., Roche, L., Ryan, J., and Van Parijs, S. M. 2020. Seasonal trends and primary contributors to the low-frequency soundscape of the Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 148(2): 845.
https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0001726

Kline, L. R., DeAngelis, A. I., McBride, C., Rodgers, G. G., Rowell, T. J., Smith, J., Stanley, J. A., Read, A. D., and Van Parijs, S. M. 2020. Sleuthing with sound: Understanding vessel activity in marine protected areas using passive acoustic monitoring. Marine Policy 120: 104138.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2020.104138

Li, P., Liu, X., Palmer, K., Fleishman, E., Gillespie, D. M., Nosal, E. M., Shiu, Y., Klinck, H., Cholewiak, D., Helble, T., and Roch, M. 2020. Learning deep models from synthetic data for extracting dolphin whistle contours. In International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN). IEEE Computer Society.
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2005.08894
Mooney T. A., Di Iorio, L., Lammers, M., Tzu-Hao, L., Nedelec, S. L., Parsons, M., Radford, C., Urban, E., and Stanley, J. 2020. Listening forward: approaching marine biodiversity assessments using acoustic methods. Royal Society Open Science 7: 7201287
https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.201287

Shiu, Y., Palmer, K. J., Roch, M. A., Fleishman, E., Liu, X., Nosal, E., Helble, T., Cholewiak, D., Gillespie, D., and Klinck, H. 2020. Deep neural networks for automated detection of marine mammal species. Scientific Reports 10: 607.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-57549-y

Stanley, J. A., Caiger, P. E., Phelan, B., Shelledy, K., Mooney, T. A., and Van Parijs, S. M. 2020. Ontogenetic variation in the auditory sensitivity of black sea bass (Centropristis striata) and the implications of anthropogenic sound on behavior and communication. Journal of Experimental Biology 223: jeb219683.
https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.219683

2019
Baumgartner, M. F., Bonnell, J., Van Parijs, S. M., Corkeron, P.J., Hotchkin, C., Ball, K., Pelletier, L-P., Partan, J., Peters, D., Kemp, J., Pietro, J., Newhall, K., Stokes, A., Cole, T. V. N., Quintana, E., and Kraus, S. D. 2019. Persistent near real-time passive acoustic monitoring for baleen whales from a moored buoy: system description and evaluation. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 10: 1476-1489.
https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13244

Dunn, D. C., Harrison, A-L., Curtice, C., DeLand, S.,Donnelly, B., Fujioka, E., Heywood, E., Kot, C. Y., Poulin, S., Whitten, M., Åkesson, S., Alberini, A., Appeltans, W., Arcos, J. M., Bailey, H., Ballance, L. T., Block, B., Blondin, H., Boustany, A. M., Brenner, J., Catry, P., Cejudo, D., Cleary, J., Corkeron, P., Costa, D. P., Coyne, M., Crespo, G. O., Davies, T. E., Dias, M. P., Douvere, F., Ferretti, F., Formia, A., Freestone, D., Friedlaender, A. S., Frisch-Nwakanma, H., Froján, C. B., Gjerde, K. M., Glowka, L., Godley, B. J., Gonzalez-Solis, J., Granadeiro, J. P., Gunn, V., Hashimoto, Y., Hawkes, L. M., Hays, G. C., Hazin, C., Jimenez, J., Johnson, D. E., Luschi, P., Maxwell, S. M., McClellan, C., Modest, M., Notarbartolo di Sciara, G., Palacio, A. H., Palacios, D. M., Pauly, A., Rayner, M., Rees, A. F., Salazar, E. R., Secor, D., Sequeira, A. M. M., Spalding, M., Spina, F., Van Parijs, S., Wallace, B., Varo-Cruz, N., Virtue, M., Weimerskirch, H., Wilson, L., Woodward B., and Halpin, P. N. 2019. The importance of migratory connectivity for global ocean policy. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 286: 20191472.
https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.1472

Haver, S. M., Fournet, M. E. H., Dziak, R. P., Gabriele, C., Gedamke, J., Hatch, L. T., Haxel, J., Heppell, S. A., McKenna, M. F., Mellinger, D. K., and Van Parijs, S. M. 2019. Comparing the Underwater Soundscapes of Four U.S. National Parks and Marine Sanctuaries. Frontiers in Marine Science 6:500.
https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2019.00500

Heenehan, H., Stanistreet, J. E., Corkeron, P. J., Bouveret, L., Chalifour, J., Davis, G. E., Henriquez, A., Kiszka, J., Kline, L., Reed, C., Shamir-Reynoso, O., Vedie, F., DeWolf, W., Hoetjes, P., and Van Parijs, S. M. 2019. Caribbean Sea Soundscapes: Monitoring Humpback Whales, Biological Sounds, Geological Events, and Anthropogenic Impacts of Vessel Noise. Frontiers in Marine Science 6: 347.
https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2019.00347

Parks, S. E., Cusano, D. A., Van Parijs, S. M., and Nowacek, D. P. 2019. North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis) acoustic behavior on the calving grounds. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 146(1):EL15.
https://doi.org/10.1121/1.5115332

Parks, S. E., Cusano, D. A., Van Parijs, S. M., and Nowacek, D. P. 2019. Acoustic crypsis in communication by North Atlantic right whale mother-calf pairs on the calving grounds. Biology Letters 15: 20190485.
https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2019.0485

Tremblay, C. J., Van Parijs, S. M., and Cholewiak, D. 50 to 30-Hz triplet and singlet down sweep vocalizations produced by sei whales (Balaenoptera borealis) in the western North Atlantic Ocean. 2019. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 145(6): 3351.
https://doi.org/10.1121/1.5110713

Webster, T. A., Van Parijs, S. M., Rayment, W. J., and Dawson, S. M. 2019. Temporal variation in the vocal behaviour of southern right whales in the Auckland Islands, New Zealand. Royal Society Open Science 6: 181487.
https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.181487

Zemeckis, D. R., Dean, M. J., DeAngelis, A. I., Van Parijs, S. M., Hoffman, W. S., Baumgartner, M. F., Hatch, L. T., Cadrin, S. X., and McGuire, C. H. 2019. Identifying the distribution of Atlantic cod spawning using multiple fixed and glider-mounted acoustic technologies. ICES Journal of Marine Science 76(6): 1610-1625.
https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsz064

2018
Cholewiak, D., Clark, C. W., Ponirakis, D., Frankel, A., Hatch, L. T., Risch, D., Stanistreet, J. E., Thompson, M., Vu, E., and Van Parijs, S. M. 2018. Communicating amidst the noise: modeling the aggregate influence of ambient and vessel noise on baleen whale communication space in a national marine sanctuary. Endangered Species Research 36: 59-75.
https://doi.org/10.3354/esr00875

Cholewiak, D. M., Cerchio, S., Jacobsen, J. K, Urbán-R, J., and Clark, C. W. 2018. Songbird dynamics under the sea: acoustic interactions between humpback whales suggest song mediates male interactions. Royal Society Open Science 5: 171298.
https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.171298

Cusano, D. A., Conger, L. A., Van Parijs, S. M., and Parks, S. E. 2018. Implementing conservation measures for the North Atlantic right whale: considering the behavioral ontogeny of mother-calf pairs. Animal Conservation 22: 228-237.
https://doi.org/10.1111/acv.12457

DeAngelis, A. I., Stanistreet, J. E., Baumman-Pickering, S., and Cholewiak, D. M. 2018. A description of echolocation clicks recorded in the presence of True’s beaked whale (Mesoplodon mirus). The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 144(5): 2691-2700.
https://doi.org/10.1121/1.5067379

Haver, S. M., Gedamke, J., Hatch, L. T., Dziak, R. P., Van Parijs, S., McKenna, M. F., Barlow, J., Berchok, C., DiDonato, E., Hanson, B., Haxel, J., Holt, M., Lipski, D., Matsumoto, H., Meinig, C., Mellinger, D. K., Moore, S. E., Oleson, E. M., Soldevilla, M. S., and Klinck, H. 2018. Monitoring long-term soundscape trends in U.S. Waters: The NOAA/NPS Ocean Noise Reference Station Network. Marine Policy 90: 6-13.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2018.01.023

Root-Gutteridge, H., Cusano, D. A., Shiu, Y., Nowacek, D. P., Van Parijs, S. M., and Parks, S. E. 2018. A lifetime of changing calls: North Atlantic right whales, Eubalaena glacialis, refine call production as they age. Animal Behaviour 137: 21-34.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2017.12.016

Stanistreet, J. E., Nowacek, D. P., Bell, J. T., Cholewiak, D. M., Hildebrand, J. A., Hodge, L. E. W., Van Parijs, S. M., and Read, A. J. 2018. Spatial and seasonal patterns in acoustic detections of sperm whales Physeter macrocephalus along the continental slope in the western North Atlantic Ocean. Endangered Species Research 25: 1-13.
https://doi.org/10.3354/esr00867

2017
Cholewiak, D., DeAngelis, A. I., Palka, D., Corkeron, P. J., and Van Parijs, S. M. 2017. Beaked whales demonstrate a marked acoustic response to the use of shipboard echosounders. Royal Society open science 4: 170940.
https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.170940

Davis, G. E., Baumgartner, M. F., Bonnell, J. M., Bell, J., Berchok, C., Bort Thornton, J., Brault, S., Buchanan, G., Charif, R. A., Cholewiak, D., Clark, C. W., Corkeron, P., Delarue, J., Dudzinski, K., Hatch, L., Hildebrand, J., Hodge, L., Klinck, H., Kraus, S., Martin, B., Mellinger, D. K., Moors-Murphy, H., Nieukirk, S., Nowacek, D. P., Parks, S., Read, A. J., Rice, A. N., Risch, D., Sirovic, A., Soldevilla, M., Stafford, K., Stanistreet, J. E., Summers, E., Todd, S., Warde, A., and Van Parijs, S. M. 2017. Long-term passive acoustic recordings track the changing distribution of North Atlantic right whales (Eubalaena glacialis) from 2004 to 2014. Scientific Reports 7: 13460.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-13359-3

DeAngelis, A. I., Valtierra, R., Van Parijs, S. M., and Cholewiak, D. 2017. Using multipath reflections to obtain dive depths of beaked whales from a towed hydrophone array. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 142(2): 1078-1087.
https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4998709

Heenehan, H. L., Van Parijs, S. M., Bejder, L., Tyne, J. A., and Johnston, D. W. 2017. Differential effects of human activity on Hawaiian spinner dolphins in their resting bays. Global Ecology and Conservation 10: 60-69.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2017.02.003

McDonald, E. M., Morano, J. L., DeAngelis, A. I., and Rice, A. N. 2017. Building time-budgets from bioacoustic signals to measure population-level changes in behavior: a case study with sperm whales in the Gulf of Mexico. Ecological Indicators 72: 360-364.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2016.08.028

Soldevilla, M. S., Baumann-Pickering, S., Cholewiak, D., Hodge, L. E., Oleson, E. M., and Rankin, S. 2017. Geographic variation in Risso’s dolphin echolocation click spectra. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 142(2): 599-617
https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4996002

Stanistreet, J. E., Nowacek, D. P., Baumann-Pickering, S., Bell, J. T., Cholewiak, D. M., Hildebrand, J. A., Hodge, L. E. W., Moors-Murphy, H. B., Van Parijs, S. M., and Read, A. J. 2017. Using passive acoustic monitoring to document the distribution of beaked whale species in the western North Atlantic Ocean. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 74(12): 2098-2109.
https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfas-2016-0503

Stanley, J. A., Van Parijs, S. M., and Hatch, L. T. 2017. Underwater sound from vessel traffic reduces the effective communication range in Atlantic cod and haddock. Scientific Reports 7: 15633.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-14743-9

2016
Hatch, L. T., Wahle, C. M., Gedamke, J., Harrison, J., Laws, B., Moore, S. E., Stadler, J. H., and Van Parijs, S. M. 2016. Can you hear me here? Managing Acoustic habitat in US waters. Endangered Species Research 30: 171-186.
https://doi.org/10.3354/esr00722

Heenehan, H. L., Van Parijs, S. M., Bejder, L., Tyne, J. A., and Johnston, D. W. 2016. Using acoustics to prioritize management decisions to protect coastal dolphins: A case study using Hawaiian spinner dolphins. Marine Policy 75: 84-90.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2016.10.015

Heenehan, H. L., Tyne, J. A., Bejder, L., Van Parijs, S. M., and Johnston, D. W. 2016. Passive acoustic monitoring of coastally associated Hawaiian spinner dolphins, Stenella longirostris, ground-truthed through visual surveys. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 140(1): 206-215.
https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4955094

Mooney, T. A., Kaplan, M. B., Izzi, A., Lamoni, L., and Sayigh, L. 2016. Temporal trends in cusk eel sound production at a proposed US wind farm site. Aquatic Biology 24: 201-210.
https://doi.org/10.3354/ab00650

Roch, M. A., Batchelor, H., Baumann-Pickering, S., Berchok, C. L., Cholewiak, D., Fujioka, E., Garland, E. C., Herbert, S., Hildebrand, J. A., Oleson, E. M., Van Parijs, S., Risch, D., Sirovic, A., and Soldevilla, M. S. 2016. Management of acoustic metadata for bioacoustics. Ecological Informatics 31: 122-136.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2015.12.002

Stanistreet, J. E., Nowacek, D. P., Read, A. J., Baumann-Pickering, S., Moors-Murphy, H. B., and Van Parijs, S. M. 2016. Effects of duty-cycled passive acoustic recordings on detecting the presence of beaked whales in the northwest Atlantic. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 140(1): EL31-EL37.
https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4955009

Stanley, J. A., Van Parijs, S. M., and Hatch, L. T. 2016. The acoustic ecology of soniferous fishes within Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics 27: 070011.
https://doi.org/10.1121/2.0000289

Urazghildiiev, I. R. and Van Parijs, S. M. 2016. Automatic grunt detector and recognizer for Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua). The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 139(5): 2532-2540.
https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4948569

Van Parijs, S. M. and Clark, C. W. 2006. Long-term mating tactics in an aquatic-mating pinniped, the bearded seal, Erignathus barbatus. Animal Behaviour 72(6): 1269-1277.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2006.03.026

Webster, T. A., Dawson, S. M., Rayment, W. J., Parks, S. E., and Van Parijs, S. M. 2016. Quantitative analysis of the acoustic repertoire of southern right whales in New Zealand. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 140(1): 322-333.
https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4955066

2015
Delarue, J.J-Y., Moors-Murphy, H.B., Kowarski, K.A., Maxner, E.E., Davis, G.E., Stanistreet, J.E., and Martin, S.B. 2024. Acoustic occurrence of beaked whales off eastern Canada, 2015-2017. Endangered Species Research, 53:439-466.
https://doi.org/10.3354/esr01314

Ou, H., Au, W. W. L., Van Parijs, S., Oleson, E. M., and Rankin, S. 2015. Discrimination of frequency-modulated Baleen whale downsweep calls with overlapping frequencies. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 137(6): 3024-3032.
https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4919304
Thomisch, K., Boebel, O., Zitterbart, D.P., Samaran, F., Van Parijs, S., and Van Opzeeland, I. 2015. Effects of subsampling of passive acoustic recordings on acoustic metrics. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 138(1): 267-278.
https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4922703

Van Parijs, S. M., Baumgartner, M., Cholewiak, D., Davis, G., Gedamke, J., Gerlach, D., Haver, S., Hatch, J., Hatch, L., Hotchkin, C., Izzi, A., Klinck, H., Matzen, E., Risch, D., Silber, G. K., and Thompson, M. 2015. NEPAN: A U.S. Northeast Passive Acoustic Sensing Network for Monitoring, Reducing Threats and the Conservation of Marine Animals. Marine Technology Society Journal 49(2): 70-86.
https://doi.org/10.4031/MTSJ.49.2.16

Van Parijs, S. M., Curtice, C., and Ferguson, M. C. (Eds.). 2015. Biologically Important Areas for cetaceans within U.S. waters. Aquatic Mammals (Special Issue) 41(1): 128 pp.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1578/AM.41.1.2015.1

2014
Risch, D., Castellote, M., Clark, C. W., Davis, G. E., Dugan, P. J., Hodge, L. E. W., Kumar, A., Lucke, K., Mellinger, D. K., Nieukirk, S. L., Popescu, C. M., Ramp, C., Read, A. J., Rice, A. N., Silva, M. A., Siebert, U., Stafford, K. M., Verdaat, H., and Van Parijs, S.M. 2014. Seasonal migrations of North Atlantic minke whales: novel insights from large-scale passive acoustic monitoring networks. Movement Ecology 2(24): 1-17.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40462-014-0024-3

Risch, D., Siebert, U., and Van Parijs, S. M. 2014. Individual calling behaviour and movements of North Atlantic minke whales (Balaenoptera acutorostrata). Behaviour 151(9): 1335-1360.
https://doi.org/10.1163/1568539X-00003187

Risch, D., Gales, N. J., Gedamke, J., Kindermann, L., Nowacek, D. P., Read, A. J., Siebert, U., Van Opzeeland, I. C., Van Parijs, S. M., and Friedlaender, A. S. 2014. Mysterious bio-duck sound attributed to the Antarctic minke whale (Balaenoptera bonaerensis). Biology Letters 10: 20140175.
https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2014.0175

2013
Baumgartner, M. F., Fratantoni, D. M., Hurst, T. P., Brown, M. W., Cole, T. V. M., Van Parijs, S. M., and Johnson, M. 2013. Real-time reporting of baleen whale passive acoustic detections from ocean gliders. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 134(3): 1814-1823.
https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4816406

Cholewiak, D., Baumann-Pickering, S., and Van Parijs, S. M. 2013. Description of sounds associated with Sowerby’s beaked whales (Mesoplodon bidens) in the western North Atlantic Ocean. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 134(5): 3905-3912.
https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4823843

Cholewiak, D., Sousa-Lima, R., and Cerchio, S. 2013. Humpback whale song hierarchical structure: historical context and discussion of current classification issues. Marine Mammal Science 29(3): E312-E332.
https://doi.org/10.1111/mms.12005

Hernandez, K. M., Risch, D., Cholewiak, D. M., Dean, M. J., Hatch, L. T., Hoffman, W. S., Rice, A. N., Zemeckis, D., and Van Parijs, S. M. 2013. Acoustic monitoring of Atlantic Cod (Gadus morhua) in Massachusetts Bay: implications for management and conservation. ICES Journal of Marine Science 70(3): 628-635.
https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fst003

Risch, D., Clark, C. W., Dugan, P. J., Popescu, M., Siebert, U., and Van Parijs, S. M. 2013. Minke whale acoustic behavior and multi-year seasonal and diel vocalization patterns in Massachusetts Bay, USA. Marine Ecology Progress Series 489: 279-295.
https://doi.org/10.3354/meps10426

Stanistreet, J. E., Risch, D., and Van Parijs, S. M. 2013. Passive acoustic tracking of singing humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) on a Northwest Atlantic feeding ground. PLoS ONE 8(4): e61263.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0061263

Valtierra, R. D., Holt, R. G., Cholewiak, D., and Van Parijs, S. M. 2013. Calling depths of baleen whales from single sensor data: Development of an autocorrelation method using multipath localization. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 134(3): 2571-2581.
https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4816582

Van Opzeeland, I., Van Parijs, S., Kinderman, L., Burkhardt, E., and Boebel, O. 2013. Calling in the cold: Pervasive acoustic presence of humpback whales (Megaptera nocaeandliae) in Antarctic coastal waters. PLoS ONE 8(9): e73007.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0073007

2012
Hatch, L. T., Clark, C. W., Van Parijs, S. M., Frankel, A., and Ponirakis, D. 2012. Quantifying loss of communication space for right whales in and around a U.S. National Marine Sanctuary. Conservation Biology 26(6): 983-994.
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1523-1739.2012.01908.x

Mussoline, S. E., Risch, D., Hatch. L. T., Weinrich, M. T., Wiley, D. N., Thompson, M. A., Corkeron, P. J., and Van Parijs, S. M. 2012. Seasonal and diel variation in North Atlantic right whale up-calls: implications for management and conservation in the northwestern Atlantic Ocean. Endangered Species Research 17: 17-26.
https://doi.org/10.3354/esr00411

Risch, D., Corkeron, P. J., Ellison, W. T., and Van Parijs, S. M. 2012. Changes in humpback whale song occurrence in response to an acoustic source 200 km away. PLoS ONE 7(1): e29741.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0029741

Van Opzeeland, I. C., Van Parijs, S. M., Frickenhaus, S., Kreiss, C. M., and Boebel, O. 2012. Individual variation in pup vocalizations and absence of behavioral signs of maternal vocal discrimination in Weddell seals (Leptonychotes weddellii). Marine Mammal Science 28(2): E158-172.
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-7692.2011.00505.x

Vu, E. T., Risch, D., Clark, C. W., Gaylord, S., Hatch, L. T., Thompson, M. A., Wiley, D. N., and Van Parijs, S. M. 2012. Humpback whale song occurs extensively on feeding grounds in the western North Atlantic Ocean. Aquatic Biology 14: 175-183
https://doi.org/10.3354/ab00390

2011
Moore, S. E., Van Parijs, S. M., Southall, B. L., and Stafford, K. M. 2011. Listening to marine mammals at basin to local scales. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 129(4): 2371-2371.
https://doi.org/10.1121/1.3587678

Valtierra, R. D., Van Parijs, S. M., and Holt, R. G. 2011. A simple autocorrelation method for multipath localization techniques. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 129(4): 2574.
https://doi.org/10.1121/1.3588497

Wiley, D., Ware, C., Bocconcelli, A., Cholewiak, D., Friedlaender, A., Thompson, M., and Weinrich, M. 2011. Underwater components of humpback whale bubble-net feeding behavior. Behaviour 148: 575-602.
https://doi.org/10.1163/000579511X570893

2010
Bort, J., Van Parijs, S. M., Stevick, P. T., Summers, E., and Todd, S. 2015. North Atlantic right whale Eubalaena glacialis vocalization patterns in the central Gulf of Maine from October 2009 through October 2010. Endangered Species Research 26: 271-280.
https://doi.org/10.3354/esr00650

Van Opzeeland, I., Van Parijs, S., Bornemann, H., Frickenhaus, S., Kindermann, L., Klinck, H., Plotz, J., and Boebel, O. 2010. Acoustic ecology of Antarctic pinnipeds. Marine Ecology Progress Series 414: 267-291.
https://doi.org/10.3354/meps08683

2009
Clark, C. W., Ellison, W. T., Southall, B. L., Hatch, L., Van Parijs, S. M. Frankel, A., and Ponirakis, D. 2009. Acoustic masking in marine ecosystems: intuitions, analysis, and implication. Theme Section ‘Acoustics in marine ecology’ in Marine Ecology Progress Series 395: 201-222.
https://doi.org/10.3354/meps08402

Delarue, J., Todd, S., Van Parijs, S. M., and Di Iorio, L. 2009. Geographic variation in Northwest Atlantic fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus) song: implications for stock structure assessment. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 125(3): 1774-1782.
https://doi.org/10.1121/1.3068454

Van Opzeeland, I. C., Corkeron, P. J., Risch, D., Stenson, G., and Van Parijs, S. M. 2009. Geographic variation in vocalizations of pups and mother-pup behavior of harp seals (Pagophilus groenlandicus). Aquatic Biology 6: 109-120.
https://doi.org/10.3354/ab00170

Van Parijs, S. M., Clark, C. W., Sousa-Lima, R. S., Parks, S. E., Rankin, S., Risch, D., and Van Opzeeland, I. C. 2009. Management, mitigation and research applications of near real time and archival passive acoustic sensors over variable temporal and spatial scales. Theme Section ‘Acoustics in marine ecology’ in Marine Ecology Progress Series 395: 21-36.
https://doi.org/10.3354/meps08123

2008
Baumgartner, M.F., Van Parijs, S.M., Wenzel, F.W., Tremblay, C.J., Esch, H.C., and Warde, A.M. 2008. Low frequency vocalizations attributed to sei whales (Balaenoptera borealis). Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 124(2): 1339-1349.
https://doi.org/10.1121/1.2945155

Hatch, L., Clark, C., Merrick, R., Van Parijs, S., Ponirakis, D., Schwehr, K., Thompson, M., and Wiley, D. 2008. Characterizing the relative contributions of large vessels to total ocean noise fields: a case study using the Gerry E. Studds Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary. Environmental management 42(5): 735-752.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-008-9169-4

2007
Risch, D., Clark, C. W., Corkeron, P. J., Elepfandt, A., Kovacs, K. M., Lydersen, C., Stirling, I., and Van Parijs, S. M. 2007. Vocalizations of male bearded seals, Erignathus barbatus: classification and geographical variation. Animal Behaviour 73(5): 747-762.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2006.06.012

2006
Davies, C. E., Kovacs, K. M., Lydersen, C., and Van Parijs, S. M. 2006. Development of display behavior in young captive bearded seals. Marine Mammal Science 22(4): 952-965.
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-7692.2006.00075.x

Risch, D., Corkeron, P. J., Ellison, W. T., and Van Parijs, S. M. 2014. Formal Comment to Gong et al.: Ecosystem Scale Acoustic Sensing Reveals Humpback Whale Behavior Synchronous with Herring Spawning Processes and Re-Evaluation Finds No Effect of Sonar on Humpback Song Occurrence in the Gulf of Maine in Fall 2006. PLoS ONE 9(10): e109225.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0109225

2004
Van Opzeeland, I. C. and Van Parijs, S. M. 2004. Individuality in harp seal, Phoca groenlandica, pup vocalizations. Animal Behaviour 68(5): 1115-1123.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2004.07.005

2003
Van Parijs, S. M. 2003. Aquatic mating in pinnipeds: A review. Special issue on Pinniped Vocal Communication in Aquatic Mammals 29(2): 214-226.
https://www.aquaticmammalsjournal.org/article/vol-29-iss-2-vanparijs/
Van Parijs, S. M., Lydersen, C., and Kovacs, K. M. 2003. Vocalizations and movements suggest alternative mating tactics in male bearded seals. Animal Behaviour 65(2): 273-283.
https://doi.org/10.1006/anbe.2003.2048

Van Parijs, S. M., Lydersen, C., and Kovacs, K. M. 2004. Effects of ice cover on the behavioural patterns of aquatic-mating male bearded seals. Animal Behaviour 68(1): 89-96.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2003.09.013

Van Parijs, S. M., Corkeron, P. J., Harvey, J., Hayes, S. A., Mellinger, D. K., Rouget, P. A., Thompson, P. M., Wahlberg, M., and Kovacs, K. M. 2003. Patterns in the vocalizations of male harbor seals. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 113(6): 3403-3410.
https://doi.org/10.1121/1.1568943

2002
Van Parijs, S. M., Smith, J., and Corkeron, P. J. 2002. Using calls to estimate the abundance of inshore dolphins: a case study with Pacific humpback dolphins Sousa chinensis. Journal of Applied Ecology 39(5): 853-864.
https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2664.2002.00756.x

2001
Van Parijs, S. M. and Corkeron, P. J. 2001. Evidence for signature whistle production by a Pacific humpback dolphin, Sousa chinensis. Marine Mammal Science 17(4): 944-949.
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-7692.2001.tb01308.x

Van Parijs, S. M. and Corkeron, P. J. 2001. Boat traffic affects the acoustic behaviour of Pacific humpback dolphins, Sousa chinensis. Journal of the Marine Biological Association 81(3): 533-538.
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025315401004180

Van Parijs, S. M., Kovacs, K. M., and Lydersen, C. 2001. Spatial and temporal distribution of vocalising male bearded seals: implications for male mating strategies. Behaviour 138(7): 905-922.
https://doi.org/10.1163/156853901753172719

Book Chapters
2023
Yurk, H., O’Neill, C., Quayle, L.S., Vagle, S., Mouy, X., Austin, M., Wladichuk, J., Morrison, C., LeBlond, W.T. 2023. Adaptive Call Design to Escape Masking While Preserving Complex Social Functions of Calls in Killer Whales. In: The Effects of Noise on Aquatic Life. Popper, A.N., Sisneros, J., Hawkins, A.D., Thomsen, F. (eds.), Springer, Cham.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10417-6_187-1

2013
Cholewiak, D., Risch, D., Valtierra, R., & Van Parijs, S. M., 2013. Methods for passive acoustic tracking of marine mammals: estimating calling rates, depths and detection probability for density estimation. Chapter 6 in Adam, O. (ed) Detection, Classification and Localization of marine mammals, pp. 107 - 145.
https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:52226839

Manuals
2016
DeAngelis, A., Wilder, J., Davis, G., Cholewiak, D., Gerlach, D., Van Parijs, S., and Baumgartner, M. 2016. Guide to monitoring real-time marine mammal detections using autonomous platforms.
https://doi.org/10.25923/d1ek-vx07

Gedamke, J., Ferguson, M., Harrison, J., Hatch, L., Henderson, L., Porter, M. B., Southall, B. L., & Van Parijs, S. 2016. Predicting anthropogenic noise contributions to US waters. In The Effects of Noise on Aquatic Life II. Springer New York, pp. 341-347.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2981-8_40

Harrison, J., Ferguson, M., Gedamke, J., Hatch, L., Southall, B., & Van Parijs, S. 2016. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Cetacean and Sound Mapping Effort: Continuing Forward with an Integrated Ocean Noise Strategy. In The Effects of Noise on Aquatic Life II. Springer New York, pp. 409-416.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2981-8_48

Miksis-Olds, J. L., Van Opzeeland, I. C., Van Parijs, S. M., & Jones, J. 2016. Pinniped Sounds in the Polar Oceans. Chapter 11 in Au, W. & Lammers, M. (eds.) Listening in the Ocean. Springer New York, pp. 257-308.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-3176-7_11

2010
Whitehead, H. & Van Parijs, S. M. 2010. Studying marine mammal social systems. Chapter 12 in Boyd, I. L., Bowen, W. D., and Iverson, S. J. (eds.) Marine Mammal Ecology and Conservation: A Handbook of Techniques. Oxford University Press.
https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:202545083

2008
Van Opzeeland, I., Kindermann, L., Boebel, O., & Van Parijs, S. 2008. Insights into the acoustic behaviour of polar pinnipeds: current knowledge and emerging techniques of study. In Weber, E.A., Krause L.H. (eds.) Animal Behaviour: New Research. Nova Science Publishers, New York, pp. 133-161.
https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:16486206

2001
Corkeron, P. J. & Van Parijs, S. M. 2001. Marine mammal migrations and movement patterns. In Steele, J. H., Turekian, K. K. & Thorpe, S. A. (eds). Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences. Academic Press, London, pp. 1603 - 1611.
https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-012374473-9.00442-2

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