About the Authors
- Susanna B. Blackwell
-
* E-mail: susanna@greeneridge.com
Affiliation Greeneridge Sciences, Inc., Santa Barbara, California, United States of America
- Christopher S. Nations
-
Affiliation Western EcoSystems Technology, Inc., Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
- Trent L. McDonald
-
Affiliation Western EcoSystems Technology, Inc., Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
- Aaron M. Thode
-
Affiliation Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California, United States of America
- Delphine Mathias
-
Current Address: Société d’Observation Multi-Modale de L’Environnement (SOMME), Brest, France
Affiliation Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California, United States of America
- Katherine H. Kim
-
Affiliation Greeneridge Sciences, Inc., Santa Barbara, California, United States of America
- Charles R. Greene Jr
-
Affiliation Greeneridge Sciences, Inc., Santa Barbara, California, United States of America
- A. Michael Macrander
-
Affiliation Shell Exploration & Production Company, Anchorage, Alaska, United States of America
Competing Interests
SBB, KHK, and CRG are employed by Greeneridge Sciences, Inc., an independent contracting company that performs studies of the interactions between underwater sounds and marine vertebrates. Greeneridge conducted this research under contract with the Shell Exploration & Production Company (SEPCO). WEST Inc. (CSN and TLM) was sub-contracted for help with statistics, and Scripps Institution of Oceanography (AMT and DM) was sub-contracted for help with automated whale call and airgun pulse detection, algorithms that have been previously published in the peer-reviewed open literature. Throughout the study design and data analyses, SEPCO (AMM) provided suggestions, as any co-author would, but played no role in the decision to publish, the determination of the final results and conclusions of the study, or the preparation of the manuscript until the final editorial stages. These declarations or the authors’ affiliations do not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: CRG SBB TLM CSN AMT AMM. Performed the experiments: SBB DM AMT KHK CSN. Analyzed the data: CSN SBB AMT KHK TLM. Wrote the paper: SBB CSN AMT.