SMRU Consulting
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We are a world leading marine mammal consultancy with an unrivalled reputation for providing innovative, robust, and environmentally sound solutions in the marine environment. https://www.smruconsulting.com/
SMRU Consulting is proud to support this work, by providing real-time acoustic monitoring so whales can be detected, noise monitored and drive good stewardship in busy offshore environments. This partnership with Microsoft AI for Good Lab & Maritime Blue has been a great way to help affect change.
The sound of survival
Only 75 southern resident killer whales remain. Microsoft AI and bioacoustic buoys in the Salish Sea detect whale calls in real time—alerting ships to slow down and reduce deadly noise pollution.
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SMRU Consulting is delighted to support Inch Cape Offshore Limited with post-consent services and bottlenose dolphin monitoring throughout the construction phase. #offshorewind #offshoreenergy #renewableenergy
All monopile foundations now installed - Inch Cape Offshore
Installation of all the monopile foundations for Inch Cape Offshore Wind Farm’s wind turbines is complete, marking a major milestone in the flagship Scottish project’s offshore construction. Inch Cape...
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Next month, Dr Jason Wood will be presenting at Marine Renewables Canada #MRC2025 on "Benefits of Real Time Passive Acoustic Monitoring for Mitigation", which will explore case studies in which our #CoastalAcousticBuoys have been used for marine mammal #mitigation #monitoring ...
Today, Cormac Booth will be presenting to the National Physical Laboratory (#NPL) #Underwater #Sound #Forum in London on lessons learned from the last 15 years of #underwaternoise and #marinemammal monitoring with CAB. #realtime #EnvironmentalMonitoring #SmartSensors #Innovation #GreenTech
Exciting opportunity: please join SMRU Consulting and Ørsted for a webinar on Tuesday, 4th Nov, to run through the findings of the recently completed 'IDEAS' project (Improving cetacean Density Estimation from digital Aerial Surveys).
Want to know more about digital aerial survey data and cetaceans? SMRU Consulting and Ørsted are hosting a webinar on Tue 4th Nov to run through the findings of the recently completed 'IDEAS' ...
Want to know more about digital aerial survey data and cetaceans? SMRU Consulting and Ørsted are hosting a webinar on Tue 4th Nov to run through the findings of the recently completed 'IDEAS' project ...
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We're excited to share that Courtney Ogilvy from SMRU Consulting will be presenting at Marine Renewables Canada 2025! #MRC2025 #CanadianOffshoreWind #marinescience #environmentalimpactassessment #renewableenergy
Our PhD candidate, @philippawright.bsky.social, at #CWW2025 (Wind energy &vWildlife impacts) on the #PrePARED project:🐟Fish for thought: The nutritional quality of prey species with a developing offshore wind landscape @uniofstandrews.bsky.social Learn more about PrePARED here: owecprepared.org
Very proud to supervise the brilliant work @philippawright.bsky.social is doing as part of her PhD. 🌟 If you're at CWW, and are interested in the nutritional quality of fish 🐟 around offshore wind farms, reach out to Philippa! @seamammalresearch.bsky.social @smruc.bsky.social @bioss.bsky.social
Line Cordes@linecordes.bsky.social · last yr.Great talk by @philippawright.bsky.social at CWW - fish for thought!
🚨 Milestone Alert! Last week, our CAB systems surpassed 5,000 days of listening beneath the waves — tracking whales, vessels, and more throughout the Pacific Northwest! #CoastalAcousticBuoy
Check out our latest blog post! ➡️ On using our Coastal Acoustic Buoys for the real-time passive acoustic mitigation monitoring of dolphins during a port's dredging campaign in the north of Scotland. #passiveacoustics #CAB #mitigationmonitoring #ArdersierPort www.smruconsulting.com/blog/real-ti...
Real-time Passive Acoustic Mitigation Monitoring during Ardersier Port Expansion — SMRU Consulting
SMRU Consulting’s Coastal Acoustic Buoys (CABs) have been busy listening for dolphins in the Scottish Highlands… Haventus has been leading the redevelopment of the Port of Ardersier, near Inverne...
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Hot off the press: "A call for comparable measurements of underwater radiated noise related to vessel speed reduction programs" in @asa-news.bsky.social pubs.aip.org/asa/jel/arti... #VSR #URN
A call for comparable measurements of underwater radiated noise related to vessel speed reduction programs
Marine vessels are mandated or requested to reduce speed to meet operational, economic, and conservation goals. Vessel speed reduction (VSR) is a key strategy i
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PrePARED webinar now recorded online! ➡️ Report 007, "Challenges & Solutions for Offshore Wind Farm Cumulative Effects Assessments for Marine Mammals" by SMRU Consulting's Rachael Sinclair. #PrePAREDProject #OWEC #CrownEstateScotland owecprepared.org/outputs/ www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dXQ...
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SMRU Consulting@smruc.bsky.social · last yr.📣 PrePARED WEBINAR 📣 The Predators & Prey Around Renewable Energy Developments (#PrePARED) project is hosting a webinar on the Challenges & Solutions for Offshore Wind Farm Cumulative Effects Assessments for Marine Mammals. 🗓️ Tue 15 Jul, 12-12:30 (BST) events.teams.microsoft.com/event/c2565c...
Great to see our Coastal Acoustic Buoys, (CAB Guardian & CAB Sentinels) included in this review of cutting edge tech for marine mammal monitoring by Institute of Marine Engineering, Science & Technology (@imarest.bsky.social ) & DEFRA www.imarest.org/resource/mar...
Marine Mammal Monitoring: Methods, Technologies and Opportunities for Innovation
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Happy World Orca Day everyone! We have just picked up SRKW on our Lime Kiln hydrophone as of 12:07 p.m. and the Haro Strait and Boundary Pass voluntary ship Slowdowns are now in effect! #WorldOrcaDay #SRKW #ECHOProgram
🐋Proud to have contributed to this independent science panel on #SRKW recovery, alongside colleagues from @raincoast.org @georgiastraitbc.bsky.social @seadocsociety.bsky.social @nrdc.org @oceansinitiative.org @wwfcanada.org @davidsuzukifdn.bsky.social @ubcoceans.bsky.social @sfuscience.bsky.social
WWF-Canada@wwfcanada.org · last yr.🐋 Southern resident killer whales are on track to extinction BUT recovery is still possible. A new report by an independent science panel of 31 experts across Canada & the U.S. identifies 26 key actions to reverse their decline & enable their recovery. 🔗 View the full report here: bit.ly/44iH5Ia
📣 PrePARED WEBINAR 📣 The Predators & Prey Around Renewable Energy Developments (#PrePARED) project is hosting a webinar on the Challenges & Solutions for Offshore Wind Farm Cumulative Effects Assessments for Marine Mammals. 🗓️ Tue 15 Jul, 12-12:30 (BST) events.teams.microsoft.com/event/c2565c...
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Check out our new Notes from the field blog post about deploying 30 PAM moorings at the Dogger Bank Wind Farm! www.smruconsulting.com/blog/notes-f... #Fieldwork #PAM #OffshoreWind
Notes from the field – 30th June 2025 — SMRU Consulting
In early March almost half of the St. Andrews-based Sea Mammal Research Unit (SMRU) Consulting team were away from the office on field-related work. In one effort we had a team of four in Cromarty set...
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New output from the ONR/LMR-funded #ACCURATE project by @popigk.bsky.social in @asa-news.bsky.social #passiveacoustics #densityestimation #beampattern #biosonar @uniofstandrews.bsky.social @seamammalresearch.bsky.social @au.dk #CREEM #JASA doi.org/10.1121/10.0...
Sensitivity of density estimates to off-axis beam pattern assumptions in deep-diving odontocetes
Density estimation from passive acoustic monitoring requires knowledge of the sound production rates and signal characteristics of animal calls. This study expl
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Proud to have contributed to the @wwfnederland.bsky.social #BlueCorridors project! www.linkedin.com/posts/erich-...
Bringing whale superhighways to life: WWF and a global coalition of… | Erich Hoyt | 11 comments
Bringing whale superhighways to life: WWF and a global coalition of leading scientists, civil society, governments, and tech innovators have launched BlueCorridors.org—a new digital platform combining...
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New report on cumulative effects assessments (CEAs) by Rachael Sinclair for the #PrePAREDProject. Here, we recommend guidance for the standardization of CEAs, in order to make them more representative, comparable, thus enabling a more streamlined consenting process. owecprepared.org/wp-content/u...
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Looking forward to attending this hosted by the #PrePAREDProject (Predators and Prey Around Renewable Energy Developments) team on Wednesday 21 May from 12 - 12:30pm GMT+1. You can register here: rb.gy/gav951 #offshorewind #renewables #thecrownestate @exeter.ac.uk
New paper: Darias-O'Hara et al. "Behavioural response thresholds for the assessment of noise impact on Antarctic marine mammal species", Marine Policy. @uniofstandrews.bsky.social @au.dk @seamammalresearch.bsky.social Funded by@umweltbundesamt.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Behavioural response thresholds for the assessment of noise impact on Antarctic marine mammal species
Increasing levels of anthropogenic noise in our oceans is concerning, especially in Antarctic waters where marine mammals are more naïve to sound sour…
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Happy Friday! Here are some nice #SRKW vocals our #LimeKiln hydrophone recorded in March. @thewhalemuseum.bsky.social #HaroStrait
New paper: Darias-O'Hara et al. "Behavioural response thresholds for the assessment of noise impact on Antarctic marine mammal species", Marine Policy. @uniofstandrews.bsky.social @au.dk @seamammalresearch.bsky.social Funded by@umweltbundesamt.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Behavioural response thresholds for the assessment of noise impact on Antarctic marine mammal species
Increasing levels of anthropogenic noise in our oceans is concerning, especially in Antarctic waters where marine mammals are more naïve to sound sour…
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Hello J63!! Earth Day was extra special this year! In addition to kicking off the first day of Storming the Sound with Salmon, members of the Orca Conservancy team got first looks at the newest calf in J Pod, J63! 📷 J40 with new calf J63 - taken by @intertidalkendy.bsky.social
Check out this fantastic article for an eloquent explanation of our recent publication in @science.org www.acsh.org/news/2025/03...
When Breath Fails: The Deep Difference Between Seals and SEALS
What do elite Navy SEALS, world-class free-divers, and marine mammals have in common? They all push the limits of breath-hold endurance—yet only one group evolved with the right warning system to avoi...
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Great talk by @kateywhyte.bsky.social from @bioss.bsky.social at the SOI today. So 👏 much 👏 data 👏 Such an exciting project! @uniofstandrews.bsky.social
We're proud to have our CAB Guardians for real-time passive acoustic mitigation monitoring in the Moray Firth. Here's a video from the recent deployment for Haventus, with SMRU Consulting staff Chloe, Jack & Sam. www.linkedin.com/posts/havent...
Haventus’ dredging operation at our Ardersier Energy Transition Facility… | Haventus
Haventus’ dredging operation at our Ardersier Energy Transition Facility is about to get underway, to ensure our harbour and approach channel are deep and wide…
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