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Joint Work of the Expert Group on Acoustics & Cetaceans and SC-ATS

The SCAR Expert Group on Acoustics and Cetaceans meets from time to time under the aegis of the Standing Committee on the Antarctic Treaty System to consider what advances have been made in understanding the relationships between man's generation of noise in the marine environment on the one hand, and animals like whales, dolphins and seals on the other hand. Reports can be found on the Acoustics Group page.

In addition, the SCAR Expert Group considers other documents, such as for instance:

• the report of the Joint Nature Conservancy Council of the UK (BELOW) on effects on mammals of commercial seismic surveys in the UK Continental Shelf area, and also their guidelines to the Department of Trade and Industry, which are used by the DTI to issue licences for petroleum exploration and survey (JNCC Guidelines for Minimising Acoustic Disturbance to Marine Mammals from Seismic Surveys)
• the US National Research Council publication on Marine Mammal Populations and Ocean Noise (Marine Mammal Populations and Ocean Noise: Determining When Noise Causes Biologically Significant Effects, by the Committee on Characterizing Biologically Significant Marine Mammal Behavior, US National Research Council 142 pages, 2005)