John Moloney hosts Teledyne Webinar: Acoustic Monitoring for Slocum Gliders
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JASCO’s Engineering and Business Development Manager describes JASCO’s OceanObserver’s integration onboard the Slocum Glider
JASCO Applied Sciences and Teledyne Webb Research have partnered to integrate JASCO’s OceanObserver acoustic and oceanographic data acquisition and processing system aboard the Slocum Glider. In a webinar produced by Teledyne Marine Webb Research, John Moloney describes the unique capabilities of the OceanObserver aboard the Slocum as demonstrated in a successful mission to Canada’s Gulf of St. Lawrence in 2018 in search of critically endangered North American right whales.
The Slocum Autonomous Underwater Glider is one of the world’s most utilized underwater gliders and JASCO’s OceanObserver provides intelligent acoustic monitoring. Together, the two provide marine mammal monitoring without the cost of vessel or aerial surveys.
The buoyancy driven Slocum glider gathers data as it rises and dives in the water to propel itself forward. Onboard, the OceanObserver records the underwater sounds and detects marine mammal calls or events of interest. Surfacing at specified intervals, the glider sends the detections to shore for analysis.
The OceanObserver payload is also applicable to other Teledyne platforms and can be integrated with many Teledyne sensors. JASCO’s ongoing development work with related equipment companies such as Reson and ODI are also mentioned in the webinar. This talk will be of relevance to those involved in a variety of applications of acoustic monitoring from anti-submarine warfare to mitigating the effects of underwater noise on marine environments, or more generally interested in the scientific use of Slocum gliders.
Watch the webinar below.
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About Teledyne Marine Webb Research
Teledyne Webb Research designs and manufactures scientific instruments for oceanographic research and monitoring with a focus on extended observations over both time and space. Teledyne Webb Research specializes in three areas of ocean instrumentation: Neutrally buoyant, autonomous drifters and profilers (10,000 to date), autonomous underwater gliding vehicles (900 to date), and moored underwater sound sources. These systems are core to several major ocean monitoring programs including the international Argo array, the National Science Foundation Ocean Observatories Initiative and the U.S. Navy Littoral Battlespace Sensing – Glider (LBS-G) program of record. A Teledyne Webb Research Slocum glider, the Scarlet Knight, was the first unmanned vehicle to cross an ocean. To learn more, visit www.teledynemarine.com/webb-research.
