ADMINISTRATIVE DATA 



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 Agreement No. AA851-IA0-5 entitled, "Study of the Effects of Sound 

 on Marine Marmals" (NOSC Project 513-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. Jeffrey P. Petrino of BLM Code 851 served as 

 contracting of"^icer. 



NOSC was selected for this work because of its unique combination of 

 experience and facilities in the areas of underwater sound and marine 

 mammals. The work was done by a task group managed by Dr. Elek Lindner of the 

 Marine Sciences Division. Principal members of the task team were: R. S. 

 Gales, Acoustics , J. A. Hoke, Instrumentatio n, and D. R. Schmidt, Data 

 Recording and Analysis . 



The whole-hearted cooperation and assistance of all members of the team 

 is gratefully acknowledged. In addition, thanks are due to other members of 

 the Airborne Acoustics Branch who assisted at various times, particularly to 

 Karen Wilcken, who typed the original manuscript. 



Acknowledgements are also due to members of Computer Sciences 



Corporation (CSC) under contract to NOSC for their significant contributions 



to the later portions of the project. Participants from CSC were: 



D. MacCormack and R. Christensen who performed the source spectrum analyses, 



and J. A. Hoke who performed under CSC after his retirement from government 



service in late 1980. 



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