Cetacean Acoustic Trend Tracking
Cetacean Acoustic Trend Tracking is a research project addressing questions around what suitable low-cost long-term deployment opportunities for F-PODs may exist, the training and support needed, and what data issues, instrument losses, etc. may arise, and finally what the data is able to show.
Sites include seaweed farms, deployments by local wildlife groups, fish tracking stations, and other academic projects which may gain added value from cetacean activity data.
Monitoring Locations
Sites along the South West peninsular to Isles of Scilly.
Sites along the English Channel from Sussex to Dorset.
Sites in the Bristol Channel, off Skomer, through Cardigan Bay and up to Anglesey.
The Channel Islands have been gathering Cetcean data for several years.
Sites along the North Sea Coast.
Scotland is a special case for CATT as we are partnering with Marine Scotland to share F-POD data from government and academic studies undertaken in Scottish waters.
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This arrangement offers a way for large scale projects to share their F-POD data with CATT while retaining control over management and curation of their data sets.