Lindy Weilgart


Email: lweilgar@dal.ca

CV

 

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Material relating to letter in Marine Mammal Science

(October 2005; vol. 21, no. 4):

“Signal-to-noise: Funding structure versus ethics as a solution to conflict-of-interest response to resonance and dissonance: Science, ethics, and the sonar debate. Marine Mammal Science 20: 898 - 899. Weilgart et al. 2005.


Email exchange between representative of operational US Navy and official of Office of Naval Research


Notarized authentication of above email exchange

 

 

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Publications

 

Weilgart, L. (ed.). 2010. Are There Technological Alternatives to Airguns for Oil and Gas Exploration to Reduce Potential Noise Impacts on Cetaceans? Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference of the Effects of Noise on Aquatic Life, August 15-20, Cork, Ireland.

 

Weilgart, L.S. 2006. Managing noise through Marine Protected Areas around global hot spots. International Whaling Commission Scientific Committee document SC/58/E25, 12 pp.

 

Weilgart, L.S. 2007. The need for precaution in the regulation and management of undersea noise. J. Int. Wildlife Law and Policy 10:3, 247-253.

 

Wright, A.J., N. Aguilar Soto, A.L. Baldwin, M. Bateson, C.M. Beale, C. Clark, T. Deak, E.F. Edwards, A. Fernández, A. Godinho, L.T. Hatch, A. Kakuschke, D. Lusseau, D. Martineau, L.M. Romero, L.S. Weilgart, B.A. Wintle, G. Notarbartolo-di-Sciara, and V. Martin. 2007. Do marine mammals experience stress related to anthropogenic noise? Int. J. Comp. Psych. 20: 274-316.

 

Weilgart, L.S. and H. Whitehead. 1990. Vocalizations of the North Atlantic pilot whale (Globicephala melas) as related to behavioral contexts. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 26: 399-402.

 

Weilgart, L.S. 2007. A brief review of known effects of noise on marine mammals. Int. J. Comp. Psych. 20: 159-168.

 

Weilgart, L., H. Whitehead, L. Rendell, and J. Calambokidis, J. 2005. Signal-to-noise: funding structure vs. ethics as a solution to conflict-of-interest. Mar. Mamm. Sci. 21 (4): 779-781.

 

Wade, L., Whitehead, H., and L. Weilgart. 2010. Conflict of interest in research on anthropogenic noise and marine mammals: does funding bias conclusions? Marine Policy 34: 320-327.3

 

The impacts of anthropogenic ocean noise on cetaceans and implications for management. CJZ 85(11): 1091–1116 (2007)


Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Conservation Biology, Victoria, B.C., Canada, June 1997. Human-generated noise and marine environment: objections to ATOC and LFA sonar and suggestions for future protocols


Paper presented at the Fifth Annual Whales Alive Conference, Maui, HI., January 1997. ATOC and LFA sonar: undersea noise pollution and the limitations of science.


Link to Testimony for LFA hearing, 7 Feb. 1998


The threat of underwater noise on whales: management in light of scientific limitations. Conference of Impact of Acoustics on Marine Organisms. Berlin, 17-19 June 2002


Seismic testing and the impacts of high intensity sound on whales. Talk for Suzuki Foundation, February 2004


Comments on the Acoustic Exposure Criteria EIS, 7 March, 2005


Comments on the Statement of Canadian Practice for the Mitigation of Seismic Noise in the Marine Environment, 13 April 2005

 

 

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Okeanos Reports

 

Agardy, T., N. Aguilar Soto, A. Cañadas, M.H. Engel, A. Frantzis, L.T. Hatch, E. Hoyt, K. Kaschner, E. LaBrecque, V. Martin, G. Notarbartolo di Sciara, G. Pavan, A. Servidio, B. Smith, J. Wang, L. Weilgart, B. Wintle, and A. Wright. 2007. Report on the Scientific Workshop: A Global Scientific Workshop on Spatio-Temporal Management of Noise, 4-6 June 2007, Puerto Calero, Lanzarote, 44 pp. Available at: http://www.okeanos-stiftung.org/assets/Uploads/str2007en2.pdf

 

Wright, A.J. (ed) 2008. International Workshop on Shipping Noise and Marine Mammals, Hamburg, Germany, 21st-24th April 2008. Okeanos - Foundation for the Sea, Auf der Marienhöhe 17, D-64297 Darmstadt. 33+v p.

 

Wright, A.J. (Ed.). Report of the Workshop on Assessing the Cumulative Impacts of Underwater Noise with Other Anthropogenic Stressors on Marine Mammals: From Ideas to Action. Monterey, California, USA, 26th-29th August, 2009. Okeanos - Foundation for the Sea, pp. 19-26. Available from: http://www.okeanos-stiftung.org/assets/Uploads/CIReportFinal3.pdf

 

Weilgart, L. (Ed.). 2010. Report of the Workshop on Alternative Technologies to Seismic Airgun Surveys for Oil and Gas Exploration and their Potential for Reducing Impacts on Marine Mammals. Monterey, CA, USA, 31 August-1 Sept. 2009. Okeanos - Foundation for the Sea. Available from: http://www.okeanos-stiftung.org/assets/Uploads/Airgun.pdf

 

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