Publications and Presentations

SEFSC Passive Acoustic Ecology Program

Publications

2024

Barry, K.P., K.D. Mullin, K. Maze-Foley, L.A. Wilcox Talbot, P.E. Rosel, M.S. Soldevilla, L.A. Dias, M.R. Ramirez-Leon, and J.A. Litz. 2024. Killer whales in the Gulf of Mexico and North Atlantic off the Southeastern United States. Frontiers in Marine Science. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2024.1360314

Solsona-Berga, A., K.E. Frasier, N. Posdaljian, S. Baumann-Pickering, S. Wiggins, M. Soldevilla, L. Garrison, and J.A. Hildebrand. 2024. Accounting for sperm whale population demographics in density estimation using passive acoustic monitoring. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 746: 121-140. doi: 10.3354/meps14693

Garrison, L.P., M.S. Soldevilla, A. Martinez, and K.D. Mullin. 2024. A density surface model describing the habitat of the Critically Endangered Rice’s whale Balaenoptera ricei in the Gulf of Mexico. Endangered Species Research. doi: 10.3354/esr01324

Rankin, S., T. Sakai, F.I. Archer, J. Barlow, D. Cholewiak, A.I. DeAngelis, J.L.K. McCullough, E.M. Oleson, A.E. Simonis, M.S. Soldevilla, and J.S. Trickey. 2024. Open-source machine learning BANTER acoustic classification of beaked whale echolocation pulses. Ecological Informatics. doi: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2024.10251

Soldevilla, M.S., A.J. Debich, I. Perez-Carballo, S. Jarriel, K.E. Frasier, L.P. Garrison, A. Gracia, J.A. Hildebrand, P.E. Rosel, and A. Serrano. 2024. Rice’s whale occurrence in the western Gulf of Mexico from passive acoustic recordings. Marine Mammal Science. doi: 10.1111/mms.13109

2023

Lettrich, M.D., M.J. Asaro, D.L. Borggaard, D.M. Dick, R.B. Griffis, J.A. Litz, C.D. Orphanides, D.L. Palka, M.S. Soldevilla, B. Balmer, S. Chavez, D. Cholewiak, D. Claridge, R.Y. Ewing, K.L. Fazioli, D. Fertl, E.M. Fougeres, D. Gannon, L. Garrison, J. Gilbert, A. Gorgone, A. Hohn, S. Horstman, B. Josephson, R.D. Kenney, J.J. Kiszka, K. Maze-Foley, W. McFee, K.D. Mullin, K. Murray, D.E. Pendleton, J. Robbins, J.J. Roberts, G. Rodriguez-Ferrer, E.I. Ronje, P.E. Rosel, T. Speakman, J.E. Stanistreet, T. Stevens, M. Stolen, R. Tyson Moore, N.L. Vollmer, R. Wells, H.R. Whitehead, and A. Whitt. 2023. Vulnerability to climate change of United States marine mammal stocks in the western North Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico, and Caribbean. PLOS ONE. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0290643

Kok, A.C.M., M.J. Hildebrand, M. MacArdle, A. Martinez, L.P. Garrison, M.S. Soldevilla, and J.A. Hildebrand. 2023. Kinematics and energetics of foraging behavior in Rice’s whales of the Gulf of Mexico. Scientific Reports. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-35049-z

2022

Soldevilla, M.S., A.J. Debich, L.P. Garrison, J.A. Hildebrand, and S.M. Wiggins. 2022. Rice’s whales in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico: call variation and occurrence beyond the known core habitat. Endangered Species Research. 48: 155-173. doi: 10.3354/esr01196

Soldevilla, M.S., K. Ternus, A. Cook, J.A. Hildebrand, K.E. Frasier, A. Martinez, and L.P. Garrison. 2022. Acoustic localization, validation, and characterization of Rice’s whale calls. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 151(6). doi:10.1121/10.0011677

Rosel, P.E., L. Engleby, L.P. Garrison, J.A. Litz, K.D. Mullin, M.S. Soldevilla, M. Srinivasan, L.A. Wilcox, T. Yamada, and B.J. Zoodsma. 2022. Response to Corkeron et al. “Balaenoptera ricei is also the Gulf of Mexico whale”. Marine Mammal Science. doi: 10.1111.mms.12927

2021

Frasier, K.E., L.P. Garrison, M.S. Soldevilla, S.M. Wiggins, and J.A. Hildebrand. 2021. Cetacean distribution models based on visual and passive acoustic data. Scientific Reports. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-87577-1

2020

Davis, G.E., M.F. Baumgartner, P.J. Corkeron, J. Bell, C. Berchok, J.M. Bonnell, J. Bort Thornton, S. Brault, G.A. Buchanan, D.M. Cholewiak, C.W. Clark, J. Delarue, L.T. Hatch, H. Klinck, S.D. Kraus, B. Martin, D.K. Mellinger, H. Moors-Murphy, S. Nieukirk, D.P. Nowacek, S.E. Parks, D. Parry, N. Pegg, A.J. Read, A.N. Rice, D. Risch, A. Scott, M.S. Soldevilla, K.M. Stafford, J.E. Stanistreet, E. Summers, S. Todd, and S.M. Van Parijs. 2020. Exploring movement patterns and changing distributions of baleen whales in the western North Atlantic using a decade of passive acoustic data. Global Change Biology. doi: 10.1111/gcb.15191

2018

Haver, S.M., J. Gedamke, L.T. Hatch, R.P. Dziak, S. Van Parijs, M.F. McKenna, J. Barlow, C. Berchok, E. DiDonato, B. Hanson, J. Haxel, M. Holt, D. Lipski, H. Matsumoto, C. Meinig, D.K. Mellinger, S.E. Moore, E.M. Oleson, M.S. Soldevilla, and H. Klinck. 2018. Monitoring long-term soundscape trends in U.S. Waters: The NOAA/NPS Ocean Noise Reference Station Network. Marine Policy. doi: 10..1016/j.marpol.2018.01.023

2017

Frasier, K.E., M.A. Roch, M.S. Soldevilla, S.M. Wiggins, L.P. Garrison, and J.A. Hildebrand. 2017. Automated classification of dolphin echolocation click types from the Gulf of Mexico. PLOS Computational Biology. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005823

Davis, G.E., M.F. Baumgartner, J.M. Bonnell, J. Bell, C. Berchok, J. Bort Thornton, S. Brault, G. Buchanan, R.A. Charif, D. Cholewiak, C.W. Clark, P. Corkeron, J. Delarue, K. Dudzinski, L. Hatch, J. Hildebrand, L. Hodge, H. Klinck, S. Kraus, B. Martin, D.K. Mellinger, H. Moors-Murphy, S. Nieukirk, D.P. Nowacek, S. Parks, A.J. Read, A.N. Rice, D. Risch, A. Sirovic, M. Soldevilla, K. Stafford, J.E. Stanistreet, E. Summers, S. Todd, A. Warde, and S.M. Van Parijs. 2017. Long-term passive acoustic recordings track the changing distribution of North Atlantic right whales (Eubalaena glacialis) from 2004 to 2014. Scientific Reports. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-13359-3

Soldevilla, M.S., S. Baumann-Pickering, D. Cholewiak, L.E.W. Hodge, E.M. Oleson, and S. Rankin. 2017. Geographic variation in Risso’s dolphin echolocation click spectra. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 142(2). doi: 10.1121/1.4996002

Soldevilla, M.S., J.A. Hildebrand, K.E. Frasier, L.A. Dias, A. Martinez, K.D. Mullin, P.E. Rosel, and L.P. Garrison. 2017. Spatial distribution and dive behavior of Gulf of Mexico Bryde’s whales: potential risk of vessel strikes and fisheries interactions. Endangered Species Research. doi: 10.3354/esr00834

Rice, A.N., M.S. Soldevilla, and J.A. Quinlan. 2017. Nocturnal patterns in fish chorusing off the coasts of Georgia and eastern Florida. Bulletin of Marine Science. doi: 10.5343/bms.2016.1043

2016

Roch, M.A., H. Batchelor, S. Baumann-Pickering, C.L. Berchok, D. Cholewiak, E. Fujioka, E.C. Garland, S. Herbert, J.A. Hildebrand, E.M. Oleson, S. Van Parijs, D. Risch, A. Sirovic, and M.S. Soldevilla. 2016. Management of acoustic metadata for bioacoustics. Ecological Informatics. doi: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2015.12.002

2014

Soldevilla, M.S., A.N. Rice, C.W. Clark, and L.P. Garrison. 2014. Passive acoustic monitoring on the North Atlantic right whale calving grounds. Endangered Species Research. 25:115-140. doi: 10.3354/esr00603

Reports

Soldvilla, M.S., L.P. Garrison, E. Scott-Denton, and R.A. Hart. 2016. Estimated bycatch mortality of marine mammals in the Gulf of Mexico shrimp otter trawl fishery during 2012 to 2014. NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SEFSC-697. doi: 10.7289/V5/TM-SEFSC-697

Rafter, M.A., K.E. Frasier, M.S. Soldevilla, L. Hodge, H. Frouin-Mouy, and I. Perex Carballo. 2022. LISTEN GoMex: 2010-2021 - Long-term Investigations into Soundscapes, Trends, Ecosystems, and Noise in the Gulf of Mexico. Marine Physical Laboratory, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA. MPL Technical Memorandum #662.

Frasier, K.E., M.S. Soldevilla, M.A. Kadifa, L. Hodge, H. Frouin-Mouy, L. Tenorio-Halle, A. Debich, I. Perez Carballo, K. Johnson, I.C. Barrera Diaz, A. Gracia, A. Serrano, L.P. Garrison, J.A. Hildebrand, M. Le Henaff, J. Ortega Ortiz, and C. Wall-Bell. 2023. LISTEN GoMex: 2020-2023 - Long-term Investigations into Soundscapes, Trends, Ecosystems, and Noise in the Gulf of Mexico. Marine Physical Laboratory, Scripps Insitution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA. MPL Technical Memorandum #667. Version 1.3.

Presentations

News

Rice’s Whales Heard in the Western Gulf of Mexico

Listening to a New Species, the Rice’s Whale, to Support its Conservation

Rice’s Whale Occurrence in the Western Gulf of Mexico from Passive Acoustic Recordings

Blogs

Collecting Information to Restore Marine Mammals and Seabirds in the Gulf of Mexico

Deploying Passive Acoustic Recorders for North Atlantic Right Whale Calving Season

Graduate students developed videos in English and Spanish describing the Gulf LISTEN HARP servicing cruises as part of the LISTEN GoMex project.

In the Field: First hand accounts from researchers straight from the field (by Scripps Institution of Oceanography Researchers)