Publications

Relationship between sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) click structure and size derived from videocamera images of a depredating whale (sperm whale prey acquisition) 733K PDF file
Delphine Mathiasa and Aaron Thode, Marine Physical Laboratory, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California 92093-0238
Jan Straley, University of Alaska Southeast, Sitka, Alaska 99835
Kendall Folkert, Alaska Longline Fishermen’s Association, P.O. Box 6497, Sitka, Alaska 99835

Observations of potential acoustic cues that attract sperm whales to longline fishing in the Gulf of Alaska (548K PDF file)
Aaron Thodea, Marine Physical Laboratory, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, San Diego, California 92093-0205
Janice Straley, University of Alaska Southeast, Sitka, Alaska 99835
Christopher O. Tiemann, Applied Research Laboratories, University of Texas at Austin, P.O. Box 8029, Austin, Texas 78713-8029
Kendall Folkert, P.O. Box 6497, Sitka, Alaska 99835
Victoria O’Connell, Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Sitka, Alaska 99835

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Thode, A. Gerstoft, P., Burgess, W.C., Sabra, K., Guerra, M., Stokes, M.D., Noad, M., Cato, D.C., 2004b.  A portable matched-field processing system using passive acoustic time synchronization, submitted Sep. 2004, IEEE J. Ocean. Eng.

Thode, A., Straley, J., O’Connell, T., Burgess, W.C., Lemrick, C., Walker, S., Tiemann, C., 2004c. Acoustic observations of longline depredation by sperm whales. Presented at San Diego, CA, 148th Acoustical Society of America conference.

Thode, A., M. D.K. Mellinger, S. Stienessen, A. Martinez, K.D.Mullin, 2002a. Depth-dependent acoustic features of diving sperm whales in the Gulf of Mexico.  J. Acous. Soc. Am. 112(1) 308-321,

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