Dataset

Sanctuary Soundscape Monitoring Project (SanctSound) Daily Aggregated Species Detections

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NOAA and the U.S. Navy are working to better understand underwater sound within the National Marine Sanctuary System. From 2018-2021, these agencies worked with numerous scientific partners to study sound within seven national marine sanctuaries and one marine national monument, which includes waters off Hawai‘i and the east and west coasts. Standardized measurements were used to assess sounds produced by marine animals, physical processes (e.g., wind and waves), and human activities. Collectively, this information will help NOAA and the Navy measure sound levels and baseline acoustic conditions in sanctuaries. This work is a continuation of ongoing Navy and NOAA monitoring and research, including efforts by NOAA's Office of National Marine Sanctuaries. This dataset includes the SanctSound species detections based on recorded sounds produced by marine animals with those observations aggregated to daily presence. The full resolution SanctSound species detection products can be discovered and accessed at the NCEI Passive Acoustic Data Archive along with the dataset-specific metadata, processing details and citation. Sound sources were extracted from the SanctSound audio dataset also available at the the NCEI Passive Acoustic Data Archive (NOAA Office of National Marine Sanctuaries and U.S Navy. 2021. SanctSound Raw Passive Acoustic Data. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. https://doi.org/10.25921/saca-sp25).

Citation: NOAA Office of National Marine Sanctuaries and U.S Navy (2023). Sanctuary Soundscape Monitoring Project (SanctSound) Daily Aggregated Species Detections. Version 1.1. Occurrence dataset. https://ipt-obis.gbif.us/resource?r=noaa_sanctsound_daily_species&v=1.1

Published: June 05, 2025 at 19:11

URL: https://ipt-obis.gbif.us/resource?r=noaa_sanctsound_daily_species

Simone Baumann-Pickering
Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Leila Hatch
NOAA Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary

John Joseph
U.S. Naval Postgraduate School

Anke Kuegler
Hawai'i Institute of Marine Biology, University of Hawai'i at Manoa

Marc Lammers
NOAA Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary

Tetyana Margolina
U.S. Naval Postgraduate School

Lindsey Peavey Reeves
NOAA Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary

Timothy Rowell
NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center

Alison Stimpert
Moss Landing Marine Laboratories

Sofie Van Parijs
NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center

Eden Zang
NOAA Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary

Carrie Wall Bell
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information

Mathew Biddle
U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System

22,928
occurrence records
68,784
measurements and facts
14
taxa
12
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 541
2.4%

Quality flags

The OBIS data quality flags are documented at https://github.com/iobis/obis-qc.

No quality flags.

Measurement types

DNA derived data