NWSSRP Theme 1 - Marine Noise Monitoring and Impacts

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Investigate selected potential impacts of exposure to a seismic survey on demersal fishes, pearl oysters and infauna across different spatial and temporal scales. Man-made noise is increasing rapidly in marine environments and is recognised as a pollutant of global importance. Management of this issue requires a better understanding of the effect of noise on organisms at all levels of the marine food chain.

As part of the North West Shoals to Shore program, AIMS is investigating the long and short-term impacts of marine noise from the petroleum industry on plankton, pearl oysters and fish.

The studies are also measuring the quality and amount of noise pollution produced by the seismic surveys and vessel activity to produce real-world information about the impacts.

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Telemetry Tag Metadata NWSSRP

Telemetry Tag Metadata NWSSRP

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Meekan, M. G., Speed, C. W., McCauley, R. D., Fisher, R., Birt, M. J., Currey-Randall, L. M., Semmens, J. M., Newman, S. J., Cure, K., Stowar, M., Vaughan, B., & Parsons, M. J. G. (2021). A large-scale experiment finds no evidence that a seismic survey impacts a demersal fish fauna. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(30), e2100869118. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2100869118

Meekan, M. G., Speed, C. W., McCauley, R. D., Fisher, R., Birt, M. J., Currey-Randall, L. M., Semmens, J. M., Newman, S. J., Cure, K., Stowar, M., Vaughan, B.,…

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Speed CW, Meekan MG, Birt MJ, Parsons MJG, McLean D, Taylor BM, Thomas L, McCauley R, Semmens JM and Newman SJ (2022) Trophic Structure and Diet of Predatory Teleost Fishes in a Tropical Demersal Shelf Ecosystem. Front. Mar. Sci. 9:871611. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.871611

Speed CW, Meekan MG, Birt MJ, Parsons MJG, McLean D, Taylor BM, Thomas L, McCauley R, Semmens JM and Newman SJ (2022) Trophic Structure and Diet of Predatory…

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Vessel Control Array Telemetry data NWSSRP

Vessel Control Array Telemetry data NWSSRP

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Fish abundance BRUVS Habitat NWSSRP

Fish abundance BRUVS Habitat NWSSRP

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Data from Dang C (2024): The raw RNASeq sequence data were deposited in the Sequence Read Archive (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sra) under the project accession number PRJNA1151144.

Data from Dang C (2024): The raw RNASeq sequence data were deposited in the Sequence Read Archive (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sra) under the project accession…

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Dang, C., Severn-Ellis, A.A., Bayer, P. et al. Insights into the transcriptomic responses of silver-lipped pearl oysters Pinctada maxima exposed to a simulated large-scale seismic survey. BMC Genomics 25, 1188 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-024-11091-7

Dang, C., Severn-Ellis, A.A., Bayer, P. et al. Insights into the transcriptomic responses of silver-lipped pearl oysters Pinctada maxima exposed to a simulated…

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SamplingSiteReceivedLevels NWSSRP Fish Experiment

SamplingSiteReceivedLevels NWSSRP Fish Experiment

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High Exposure Array Telemetry data NWSSRP

High Exposure Array Telemetry data NWSSRP

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Parsons, M. J. G., Barneche, D. R., Speed, C. W., McCauley, R. D., Day, R. D., Dang, C., Fisher, R., Gholipour-Kanani, H., Newman, S. J., Semmens, J. M., & Meekan, M. G. (2023). A large-scale experiment finds no consistent evidence of change in mortality or commercial productivity in silverlip pearl oysters (Pinctada maxima) exposed to a seismic source survey. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 115480. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2023.115480

Parsons, M. J. G., Barneche, D. R., Speed, C. W., McCauley, R. D., Day, R. D., Dang, C., Fisher, R., Gholipour-Kanani, H., Newman, S. J., Semmens, J. M., &…

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McCauley, R. D., Meekan, M. G., & Parsons, M. J. G. (2021). Acoustic Pressure, Particle Motion, and Induced Ground Motion Signals from a Commercial Seismic Survey Array and Potential Implications for Environmental Monitoring. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 9(6). https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse9060571

McCauley, R. D., Meekan, M. G., & Parsons, M. J. G. (2021). Acoustic Pressure, Particle Motion, and Induced Ground Motion Signals from a Commercial Seismic…

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Lauren Amy Hawkins, Benjamin J. Saunders, M. Montserrat Landero Figueroa, Robert D. McCauley, Iain M. Parnum, Miles James Parsons, Christine Erbe; Habitat type drives the spatial distribution of Australian fish chorus diversity. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 1 October 2023; 154 (4): 2305–2320. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0021330

Lauren Amy Hawkins, Benjamin J. Saunders, M. Montserrat Landero Figueroa, Robert D. McCauley, Iain M. Parnum, Miles James Parsons, Christine Erbe; Habitat type…

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Fish lengths BRUVS NWSSRP

Fish lengths BRUVS NWSSRP

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Conrad W. Speed, Laurence Dugal, Mark G. Meekan, Matthew J. Birt, Miles Parsons, Dianne McLean, Brett Taylor, Robert D. McCauley, Jayson M. Semmens, Stephen J. Newman, Rebecca Fisher, and Luke Thomas (2025). Novel use of environmental DNA metabarcoding to assess the impacts of a large-scale seismic survey on tropical fish communities. Environmental DNA.

Conrad W. Speed, Laurence Dugal, Mark G. Meekan, Matthew J. Birt, Miles Parsons, Dianne McLean, Brett Taylor, Robert D. McCauley, Jayson M. Semmens, Stephen J.…

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eDNA Fish Data

eDNA Fish Data

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AIMS Web Site

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Additional information

Date (revision)	2026-10-25
Status	completed
Update frequency	asNeeded
Metadata language	en
License	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
Source metadata	ISO 19115 XML
Last updated	2026-11-05
Created	2026-11-05
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