NAVAL OCEAN SYSTEMS CENTER, SAN DIEGO. CA 92152 



AN ACTIVITY OF THE NAVAL MATERIAL COMMAND 

 JM PATTON, CAPT, USN HL BLOOD 



Commander Technical Director 



ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION 



The work described in this report was conducted in 1980 and 1981 for the Bureau 

 of Land Management (BLM) of the U.S. Department of Interior under Interagency Agree- 

 ment No. AA85 l-IAO-5 entitled, "Study of the Effects of Sound on Marine Mammals; 

 (NOSC Project 5 13-MM28). The work was sponsored by the New York Outer Continental 

 Shelf office of BLM under the general supervision of J. Philip Thomas and Eiji Imamura. 

 Jeffery P. Petrion of BLM Code 85 1 served as contracting officer. This research was per- 

 formed by the Naval Ocean Systems Center (NOSC). Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) 

 provided services under contract to NOSC. The work was done by the task group managed 

 by Dr. Elek Lindner of the NOSC Marine Sciences Division. Principal members of the task 

 team were: R.S. Gales, Acoustics, J.A. Hoke, Instrumentation, and D.R. Schmidt, Data 

 Recording and Analysis. Participants from CSC were: Akna Church, Head Bio Science 

 and Surface Surveillance Section, D. MacCormack, and R. Christensen, who performed the 

 source spectrum analysis. 



Released by Under authority of 



S Yamamoto, HO Porter, Head 



Marine Sciences Division Biosciences Department 



This report has been reviewed by the Bureau of Land Management and approved for 

 publication. The opinions expressed in this report are those of the authors and not neces- 

 sarily those of the Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Department of the Interior. The use 

 of trade names or identification of specific products or equipment by manufacturer does not 

 constitute endorsement or recommendation for use. 



