NOAA Fisheries PAM-Equipped Glider Research

Passive Acoustic Monitoring is an effective means of monitoring marine mammals and the marine environment, and NOAA Fisheries is expanding their efforts into PAM-equipped underwater gliders as a means of conducting this research to meet their management needs.

This site provides updated information on these efforts.

Information provided here is ongoing, and is frequently updated.

News!

Newsworthy Updates!

Sound Bytes Blog: It’s a boat, it’s a plane, it’s a passive acoustic ocean glider! Selene Fregosi (PIFSC) explains how underwater gliders help us listen for whales!

Ocean Gliders Listen for Whales off Oregon in Test of New Ways to Count Them Passive acoustic monitoring by ‘gliders’ may better detect some species