The Marine Mammal Subcommittee is a group with expertise in marine mammal distribution, ecology, behavior, and monitoring across Atlantic ecosystems that share information about ongoing and planned research, identify key data gaps, and help maintain alignment and coordination among research and data collection teams.
The Subcommittee meets multiple times per year. All are welcome to participate. Subscribe to the RWSC newsletter to receive monthly reminders and calendar invitations. View the latest Marine Mammal Subcommittee Meeting materials.
Contact the Marine Mammal Subcommittee Coordinator, Debbie Brill.
PROJECTS
Since its formation in 2021, the RWSC Marine Mammal Subcommittee has served as the focal group for coordination of archival passive acoustic monitoring in U.S. Atlantic waters. Participants include staff from state and federal agencies, the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission, private companies, researchers, and other experts.
Data Management Best Practices for Long-Term Archival PAM Data
The RWSC PAM Data Management Best Practices addresses the data collection, management, and storage phases of a long-term/archival PAM project to ensure that while numerous individual entities may be deploying, collecting, and analyzing PAM data, the infrastructure and information exists to facilitate future meta-analyses and syntheses of PAM data across the U.S. Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf.