Entanglement is a costly life-history stage in large whales by van der Hoop, Julie, Corkeron, Peter, Moore, Michael

“…Entanglement in fishing gear is one example of an unnatural but relatively common circumstance that imposes energetic demands of a similar order of magnitude and duration of life-history events such as migration and pregnancy in large whales. We present two complementary bioenergetic approaches to estimate the energy associated with entanglement in North Atlantic right whales, and compare these estimates to the natural energetic life history of individual whales. …”
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Using a coherent hydrophone array for observing sperm whale range, classification, and shallow-water dive profiles by Tran, Duong D., Huang, Wei, Bohn, Alexander C., Wang, Delin, Gong, Zheng, Ratilal, Purnima, Makris, Nicholas

“…Whale bearings were estimated using time-domain beamforming that provided high coherent array gain in sperm whale click signal-to-noise ratio. …”
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Ecosystem Scale Acoustic Sensing Reveals Humpback Whale Behavior Synchronous with Herring Spawning Processes and Re-Evaluation Finds No Effect of Sonar on Humpback Song Occurrence in the Gulf of Maine in Fall 2006 by Gong, Zheng, Tran, Duong, Yi, Dong Hoon, Wu, Fan, Zorn, Alexander, Ratilal, Purnima, Jain, Ankita Deepak, Makris, Nicholas

“…We show that humpback-whale vocalization behavior is synchronous with peak annual Atlantic herring spawning processes in the Gulf of Maine. …”
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All the fish of the sea by Ritvo, Harriet

“…Graham Burnett, Trying Leviathan: The Nineteenth-Century Court Case That Put the Whale on Trial and Challenged the Order of Nature, Princeton University Press (2007) ISBN 978-0691129501 xvi + 266 pp., $32.95.…”
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Simultaneous localization of multiple broadband non-impulsive acoustic sources in an ocean waveguide using the array invariant by Gong, Zheng, Ratilal, Purnima, Makris, Nicholas

“…The generalized array invariant approach is used to estimate the range of a vertical source array and vocalizing humpback whales over wide areas from measurements made by a towed horizontal receiver array during the Gulf of Maine 2006 Experiment. …”
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Final report on energy, supply, demand/need and the gaps between : to the M.W. Kellogg Co., Houston, Texas and the Environmental Protection Agency under Task 27 of EPA Contract 8-0... by Meyer, James Wagner, Jones, William J., Kessler, Myer M.

“…There was a crisis based on a shortage of wood fuel in the early 17th century. Whale oil was so short during the Civil War that the price doubled, yet it then dropped by a factor of six before the end of the century as kerosene became an alternate option. …”
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