TY - CHAP TI - Multiple-Pulse Sounds and Seals: Results of a Harbor Seal (Phoca vitulina) Telemetry Study During Wind Farm Construction AU - Hastie, G AU - Russell, B AU - McConnell, B AU - Thompson, D AU - Janik, V T2 - The Effects of Noise on Aquatic Life II AB - Offshore construction and survey techniques can produce pulsed sounds with a high sound pressure level. In coastal waters, the areas in which they are produced are often also used by seals, potentially resulting in auditory damage or behavioral avoidance. Here, we describe a study on harbor seals during a wind farm installation off southeast England. The study used GPS/global system for mobile communication tags on 23 harbor seals that provided distribution and activity data; the closest range of individual seals to piling varied from 6.65 to 46.1 km. Furthermore, the maximum predicted received levels (RLs) at individual seals varied between 146.9 and 169.4 dB re 1 μPa peak to peak. CY - New York DA - 2016/01// PY - 2016 VL - 875 SP - 425 EP - 430 PB - Springer UR - https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4939-2981-8_50 U1 - University of St Andrews LA - English KW - Wind Energy KW - Fixed Offshore Wind KW - Noise KW - Marine Mammals ER -