Abstract
A multidisciplinary team of scientists working under a research agreement between the University of California, Santa Barbara and BP America Production Company has undertaken a 2‐year project, currently ongoing, to develop one or more standardized and practical methods for assessing cumulative effects of anthropogenic underwater sound on marine mammals. The work of the team is based on access to existing scientific information without substantial involvement of additional primary research although topics for future research may be part of the eventual recommendations. While the final goal of the project is to conceptualize and specify widely applicable methodologies, case studies are being used to help formulate and test the feasibility of assessment frameworks. The primary case study involves the significant hydrocarbon related industrial activity that took place in the Beaufort Sea (Alaska and Canada) during late summer and autumn 2008 and its potential cumulative effect on the population of bowhead wha...
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