Reducing Human-Whale Interactions via Near Real-Time Delivery of Baleen Whale Acoustic Presence Information from Long-Endurance Autonomous Platforms

Mark Baumgartner1, Julianne Gurnee2, Cara F. Hotchkin3, Sofie M. Van Parijs2, Kimberley Teresa Ann Davies4 and Christopher T. Taggart5, (1)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Biology Department, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (2)NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (3)NAVFAC Atlantic, Norfolk, VA, United States, (4)University of Victoria, Dept. of Geography, Victoria, BC, Canada, (5)Dalhousie University, Oceanography Department, Halifax, NS, Canada