All Stories

  1. Gliders for passive acoustic monitoring of the oceanic environment

    Article • Frontiers in Remote Sensing, February 2023, Frontiers

    Dr Nathan Merchant

  2. A decade of underwater noise research in support of the European Marine Strategy Framework Directive

    Article • Ocean & Coastal Management, September 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Nathan Merchant

  3. Multi-site validation of shipping noise maps using field measurements

    Article • Marine Pollution Bulletin, June 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Nathan Merchant

  4. Exposure of individual harbour seals (Phoca vitulina) and waters surrounding protected habitats to acoustic deterrent noise from aquaculture

    Article • Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, March 2022, Wiley

    Dr Nathan Merchant

  5. Recommended metrics for quantifying underwater noise impacts on North Atlantic right whales

    Article • Marine Pollution Bulletin, February 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Nathan Merchant

  6. Auditory impairment from acoustic seal deterrents predicted for harbour porpoises in a marine protected area

    Article • Journal of Applied Ecology, June 2021, Wiley

    Dr Nathan Merchant

  7. The soundscape of the Anthropocene ocean

    Article • Science, February 2021, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Dr Nathan Merchant

  8. Balancing risks of injury and disturbance to marine mammals when pile driving at offshore windfarms

    Article • Ecological Solutions and Evidence, November 2020, Wiley

    Dr Nathan Merchant

  9. Validated shipping noise maps of the Northeast Atlantic

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, September 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Nathan Merchant

  10. Exclusion of tidal influence on ambient sound measurements

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, August 2020, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Dr Nathan Merchant

  11. Impulsive noise pollution in the Northeast Atlantic: Reported activity during 2015–2017

    Article • Marine Pollution Bulletin, March 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Nathan Merchant

  12. Harbour porpoise responses to pile-driving diminish over time

    Article • Royal Society Open Science, June 2019, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Nathan Merchant

  13. Effects of impulsive noise on marine mammals: investigating range‐dependent risk

    Article • Ecological Applications, June 2019, Wiley

    Dr DEBORAH JF RUSSELL, Dr Nathan Merchant

  14. Underwater noise abatement: Economic factors and policy options

    Article • Environmental Science & Policy, February 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Nathan Merchant

  15. Wind Speed Measured from Underwater Gliders Using Passive Acoustics

    Article • Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, December 2018, American Meteorological Society

    pierre cauchy, Dr Nathan Merchant

  16. Habitat degradation negatively affects auditory settlement behavior of coral reef fishes

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, April 2018, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Nathan Merchant

  17. Guiding principles for assessing the impact of underwater noise

    Article • Journal of Applied Ecology, April 2018, Wiley

    Dr Nathan Merchant

  18. Vessel noise cuts down communication space for vocalizing fish and marine mammals

    Article • Global Change Biology, December 2017, Wiley

    Dr Nathan Merchant

  19. Marine Noise Budgets in Practice

    Article • Conservation Letters, November 2017, Wiley

    Dr Nathan Merchant

  20. A Review of the Tools Used for Marine Monitoring in the UK: Combining Historic and Contemporary Methods with Modeling and Socioeconomics to Fulfill Legislative Needs and Scientific Ambitions

    Article • Frontiers in Marine Science, August 2017, Frontiers

    Dr Stephen Dye, Dr Nathan Merchant

  21. Responses of bottlenose dolphins and harbor porpoises to impact and vibration piling noise during harbor construction

    Article • Ecosphere, May 2017, Wiley

    Dr Nathan Merchant

  22. Seals and shipping: quantifying population risk and individual exposure to vessel noise

    Article • Journal of Applied Ecology, April 2017, Wiley

    Dr Nathan Merchant

  23. Underwater Ambient Noise in a Baleen Whale Migratory Habitat Off the Azores

    Article • Frontiers in Marine Science, April 2017, Frontiers

    Dr Nathan Merchant

  24. Underwater noise levels in UK waters

    Article • Scientific Reports, November 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Brendan John Godley, Dr Nathan Merchant, Dr Matthew Witt

  25. Evidence for ship noise impacts on humpback whale foraging behaviour

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, August 2016, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Nathan Merchant

  26. Particle motion: the missing link in underwater acoustic ecology

    Article • Methods in Ecology and Evolution, March 2016, Wiley

    Dr Nathan Merchant

  27. Underwater noise modelling for environmental impact assessment

    Article • Environmental Impact Assessment Review, February 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Nathan Merchant

  28. Soundscape and Noise Exposure Monitoring in a Marine Protected Area Using Shipping Data and Time-Lapse Footage

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nathan Merchant

  29. Measuring acoustic habitats

    Article • Methods in Ecology and Evolution, January 2015, Wiley

    Dr Nathan Merchant, Dr Matthew Witt

  30. Quantifying the effect of boat disturbance on bottlenose dolphin foraging activity

    Article • Biological Conservation, January 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Nathan Merchant

  31. Soundscapes and vocal behavior of humpback whales in Massachusetts Bay

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, April 2014, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Dr Nathan Merchant

  32. Monitoring ship noise to assess the impact of coastal developments on marine mammals

    Article • Marine Pollution Bulletin, January 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Nathan Merchant

  33. Remote performance assessment of cabled observatory hydrophone systems

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, November 2013, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Dr Nathan Merchant

  34. Short-term disturbance by a commercial two-dimensional seismic survey does not lead to long-term displacement of harbour porpoises

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, October 2013, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Nathan Merchant

  35. Spectral probability density as a tool for marine ambient noise analysis

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, May 2013, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Dr Nathan Merchant

  36. Spectral probability density as a tool for ambient noise analysis

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, April 2013, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Dr Nathan Merchant

  37. Spectral probability density as a tool for marine ambient noise analysis

    Article • January 2013, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Dr Nathan Merchant

  38. Averaging underwater noise levels for environmental assessment of shipping

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, October 2012, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Dr Nathan Merchant

  39. Assessing sound exposure from shipping in coastal waters using a single hydrophone and Automatic Identification System (AIS) data

    Article • Marine Pollution Bulletin, July 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Matthew Witt, Dr Nathan Merchant, Prof Brendan John Godley