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Author: shannonrankin

content/about.qmd

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 ## Accelerating the Use of Passive Acoustic-Equipped Gliders to Monitor and Assess Cetacean Populations
 
-__*Why This Matters:*__ NOAA Fisheries is mandated by Congress to monitor marine mammals to mitigate current risks and support sustainable oceans by improving our understanding of marine mammals as functioning parts of marine ecosystems. PAM-equipped gliders allow for a more economical approach to improving our understanding of marine mammals and supporting their long-term conservation.
-***Why This Matters:*** NOAA Fisheries is mandated by Congress to monitor marine mammals to mitigate current risks and support sustainable oceans by improving our understanding of marine mammals as functioning parts of marine ecosystems. PAM-equipped gliders allow for a more economical approach to improving our understanding of marine mammals and supporting their long-term conservation.
+***Why This Matters:*** NOAA Fisheries is mandated by Congress to monitor marine mammals to mitigate current risks and support sustainable oceans by improving our understanding of marine mammals as functioning parts of marine ecosystems. PAM-equipped gliders allow for a more economical approach to improving our understanding of marine mammals and supporting their long-term conservation. ***Why This Matters:*** NOAA Fisheries is mandated by Congress to monitor marine mammals to mitigate current risks and support sustainable oceans by improving our understanding of marine mammals as functioning parts of marine ecosystems. PAM-equipped gliders allow for a more economical approach to improving our understanding of marine mammals and supporting their long-term conservation.
 
 To this end, NOAA Fisheries will lead a 3 year effort to accelerate a transition to operations for using PAM-based glider surveys to augment existing surveys. These efforts are based on previous successful research efforts using PAM-equipped gliders off the U.S. East Coast to study right whales, and recent testing of Seagliders off Hawaiʻi. Slocum gliders are being used for real-time monitoring of North Atlantic right whales off the U.S. Atlantic coast through a [NEFSC/WHOI collaboration](https://www.whoi.edu/news-insights/content/teaming-up-for-right-whales){target="_blank"}. NOAA's OMAO UxS Operation Center partnered with PIFSC to test PAM-equipped Seagliders to augment ship-based surveys across the vast Pacific Islands region. The results from these studies highlighted that PAM-equipped gliders can augment and replace some ship-based survey efforts, informing climate assessments, including changes in range or space use, and quantitative metrics, including density.
 

content/gliders.qmd

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 ## Slocum Gliders (Teledyne Webb) ![](images/SlocumGlider.jpg){width="97"}
 
-NOAA's Southwest Fisheries Science Center began deploying Slocum gliders to study Antarctic krill in 2018, and in 2025 they will expand their glider program with PAM-equipped gliders to study marine mammals off the U.S. West coast. Slocum Gliders are modular, and two different PAM systems will be tested: the [DMON](https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA617025.pdf){target="_blank"} (developed by WHOI) and [WISPR](https://embeddedocean.com/passive-acoustics-2/){target="_blank"} (Embedded Ocean Systems).
+NOAA's Southwest Fisheries Science Center began deploying Slocum gliders to study Antarctic krill in 2018, and in 2025 they will expand their glider program with PAM-equipped gliders to study marine mammals off the U.S. West coast. Slocum Gliders are modular, and three different PAM systems will be tested: the [DMON](https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA617025.pdf){target="_blank"} (developed by WHOI) and [WISPR](https://embeddedocean.com/passive-acoustics-2/){target="_blank"} (Embedded Ocean Systems), and [OceanObserver](https://static1.squarespace.com/static/52aa2773e4b0f29916f46675/t/6845b40f81c09d69d27e3a8e/1749398546414/OceanObserver+Slocum+Glider+Brochure.pdf) ((JASCO Applied Sciences)[https://www.jasco.com/].
 
 ## Seagliders (U Washington) ![](images/seaGlider.jpg){width="114"}
 

content/sensors.qmd

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 The
 [Auris](https://www.alseamar-alcen.com/index.php/products/underwater-glider/seaexplorer){target="_blank"}
 acoustic processing system is a proprietary system developed for the
-Alseamar SeaExplorer glider. It can accommodate up to 4 channels with embedded processing capabilities for detection, classification, and beamforming. 
+Alseamar SeaExplorer glider. It can accommodate up to 4 channels with
+embedded processing capabilities for detection, classification, and
+beamforming.
 
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-[Jasco's OceanObserver](https://www.jasco.com/oceanobserver) can accommodate up to 16 acoustic channels with onboard processing for detection, ambient noise, and ocean environmental measurements. The Ocean Observer will be used on a Teledyne Slocum glider. 
+[[Jasco’s
+OceanObserver]{.underline}](https://www.jasco.com/oceanobserver "https://www.jasco.com/oceanobserver") can
+accommodate up to 16 acoustic channels with onboard processing for
+detection, ambient noise, and ocean environmental measurements. The
+Ocean Observer will be used on a Teledyne Slocum glider.