Arctic Seismic Synthesis and Mitigating Measures Workshop. Proceedings. Held inBarrow, Alaska on March 5-6, 1997

摘要

Thw workshop ws held at Ilisagvik College, in Barrow, Alaska, on March 5 and 6,1997. Nearly 50 persons attended the workshop including whaling captains and crew from Barrow and the Villages of Nuiqsut and Kaktovik, as well as experts from the scientific community, regulatory agencies, and industry. The first day of the workshop and part of the second day were devoted to presentations on seismic operations, the bowhead whale migration, high-energy seismic survey sounds and propagation, aerial observations of seismic-vessel effects on bowhead whales, current regulatory approaches and mitigating measures for open-water seismic operations. Testimony was also received from many of the whaling captains and crew members who attended the workshop. Summaries of the presentations by the scientists and transcripts of the testimonies received from the whaling captains and crew from the basis for these workshop proceedings.