Abstract

Recent advances in the technology for long‐term underwater acoustic recording provide new data on the temporal patterns of marine mammal sounds. Autonomous acoustic recordings are now being made with broad frequency bandwidth up to 200‐kHz sampling rates. These data allow sound recording from most marine mammal species, including, for instance, the echolocation clicks of odontocetes. Large data storage capacity up to 1280 Gbytes allow these recordings to be conducted over long time periods for study of diel and seasonal calling patterns. Examples will be presented of temporal patterns from long‐term recordings collected in four regions: the Bering Sea, offshore southern California, the Gulf of California, and the Southern Ocean. These data provide new insight on marine mammal distribution, seasonality, and behavior.

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