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FILOGENESI MOLECOLARE DEI CETACEI, ACUSTICA MARINA E CARTOGRAFIA DELLE BIOCENOSI MARINE

Teaching Staff

VENERA FERRITO - MODULO 1 - BIO/05 - 3 CFU
GIORGIO CONCETTO BELLIA - Module Marine acoustic - FIS/01 - 3 CFU
MARCELLO LUIGI CATRA - MODULO 3 - BIO/03 - 3 CFU

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Detailed Course Content

• Marine acoustic
  

  1 - The sea - the physico-chemical parameters, salinity, temperature, light transmission, nutrients. The thermocline. Currents, Coriolis forces, winds and currents, tides. The Mediterranean. Acoustic detectors at great depths .
  2 - the sound - wave equation, and propagation velocity, pressure waves, units of measure.
  3 - sound propagation - basic principles, reflections on the surface and on the bottom, refraction, absorption. Outline of Fourier Analysis
  4 - sea sounds - noise sources, effect of rain, the wind; sound produced by ships
  5 - bioacustica - classification of sounds made by cetaceans; echolocation and tracking; some of the sound analysis techniques. Methods of detection, localization and tracking
  6 - Passive Acoustic Monitoring (PAM) - acquisition of acoustic information, analysis of the behavior of cetaceans, protecting the environment, habitat analysis

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Textbook Information

• Marine acoustic
  

  1 - Passive acoustic Monitoring of cetaceans – Walter M.X. Zimmer – Cambridge University press 2011
  2 - Bioacoustic approaches in biodiversity inventories - Obrist M.K., Pavan G., Sueur J., Riede K., Llusia D. & Márquez R.

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