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Biological Sonar
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2019
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F. G. Walton Smith
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Project Title: |
Biologically Sourced Sonar and Soundscape Interrogation |
Project Status: |
Submitted |
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Principal Investigator: |
T. Aran Mooney, WHOI |
Project Institution: |
WHOI |
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Project ID: |
106142 |
Version #: |
2 |
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Date Submitted: |
4/23/2018 12:08:00 PM |
Created By: |
T. Aran Mooney |
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Date Last Modified: |
12/4/2018 3:23:00 PM |
URI Serial #: |
None |
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Funding Agencies: |
DARPA - NONE - Funded |
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Summary of Field Work: |
We aim to leverage marine life for the detection and tracking of underwater
vehicles, including passive acoustic monitoring and study of coral reefs in the US Virgin Islands, St. John, USVI.
Work will largely consist of baseline monitoring and several tests of influence on the community soundscape. We will seek to use the R/V Walton Smith for 2 weeks in June 2019 and 2 weeks in June 2022. We will be diving from small boats for multiple days during the trip. For much of the trip the W-S can be moored at the 100' mooring in Lammshure Bay, as they have done before, to reduce noise impacts on the local reefs. |
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Summary of Facility Requirements: |
We will typically need ship on mooring. Allowing for the deployment of divers, reef surveys and deployments of small recording devices. We will need an Aframe, Winch or davit arm to deploy a REMUS 600. We will need small boats for diver operations and sufficient deck space the for REMUS. |
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Summary of other requirements and comments: |
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Type of Request: |
Primary Ship Use |
Request Status: |
Submitted |
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Request ID: |
1009930 |
Created By: |
T. Aran Mooney |
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Date Last Modified: |
4/23/2018 12:16:00 PM |
Date Submitted: |
4/23/2018 12:08:00 PM |
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Year: |
2019
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Ship/Facility: |
F. G. Walton Smith
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Optimum Start Date:
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6/5/2019 |
Dates to Avoid: |
none right now |
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Earliest Start Date: |
5/1/2019 |
Multi-Ship Op: |
No |
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Latest Start Date: |
11/1/2019 |
Other Ship(s): |
n/a |
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Operating Days Needed: |
Science Days |
Mob Days |
De-Mob Days |
Estimated Transit Days |
Total Days |
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14 |
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8 |
24 |
Repeating Cruise?
(within same year) |
No |
Interval: |
3 years |
# of Cruises: |
2 |
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Description of Repeating cruise requirements: |
repeating 3 years later (ca. June 2022) for a 3rd phase of the project |
Justification/Explanation for ship choice, dates,
conflicts, number of days & multi-ship operations: |
14 days for science including deploying recorders, surveying reefs, collecting 5-6 days of baseline data, then multiple days where reefs are interrogated with AUV passing by or similar. Plus replicates. From experience it takes 4-5 days for the R/V Walton Smith to drive from Miami to St. Thomas were we would load and then cruise the short distance to St. John. We'll need ca. 1 day in Miami and/or St. Thomas to Mob and Demob. |
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Short Description of Op Area
for use in schedules: |
St. John, USVI |
| Description of Op Area: |
South side of the island of St. John, US Virgin Islands. Lat longs provide are the research area. the Mob location is St. Thomas and is approximately: 18.331228 N, 64.953561 W
Below is distance from St. Thomas Dock to far research site on St. John
Distances between 2 farthest research sites (research op are) is about 3.643 NM |
| Op Area Size/Dia.: |
14.373 |
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Lat/Long |
Marsden Grid |
Navy Op Area |
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Beginning
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18.297947° N
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64.7044° W
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18° 17.87682' N
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64° 42.264' W
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Ending
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18.309757° N
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64.765048° W
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18° 18.58542' N
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64° 45.90288' W
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Foreign Clearance Required? |
No |
Coastal States:
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 Important Info on Foreign Research Clearances
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Are you or any member in your science party bringing in any science equipment items which are regulated for export by the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and/or the Export Administration Regulations (EAR)?
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Yes |
If yes, have you applied for the necessary permits through your export control office?
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No |
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Comments about foreign clearance requirements or
description of any other special permitting requirements
(e.g., MMPA, ESA, IHA, Marine Sanctuaries, etc.) |
This is a US Territory. We will be working on ITAR for REMUS asap |
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Requested Start Port |
Intermediate Port(s) |
Requested End Port |
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Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands |
None, |
Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands |
Explanation/justification for requested
ports and dates of intermediate stops
or to list additional port stops |
closest port to research site |
Important Info on Working in Foreign Ports
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Chief Scientist: |
T. Aran Mooney, WHOI |
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# in Science Party |
10 |
# of different science teams |
3 |
# Marine Technicians to be
provided by ship operator:
(include in science party total)
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4 |
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Explanation of Science Party Requirements and Technician Requirements |
We will bring a passive acoustics team for soundscape measurements, an team to measure snapping shrimp sound propagation and a team for REMUS operation |
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 Dynamic Positioning |  ADCP | Multibeam | Seismic |
| Dredging/Coring/Large Dia. Trawl Wire | Stern A-frame | Fiber Optic (.681) | 0.680 Coax Wire |
| SCUBA Diving | Radioisotope use - briefly describe | NO Radioisotope use/Natural level work | Other Operator Provided Inst. - Describe |
| 0 PI-Provided Vans - briefly describe | MOCNESS | | |
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Explain Instrumentation or Capability
requirements that could affect choice
of ship in scheduling. |
We will bring the REMUS but must be able to deploy it from the Walton Smith.
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Explain Major Ancillary Facilities
Requirements and list description
and provider for "other" systems. |
maybe need a winch, i don't know. however you want to deploy the remus 600 and the small boats |
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