Acoustic detections of cetaceans from real-time Environmental Acoustic Recording System (EARS) buoy in the northern Gulf of Mexico 2016-09-10 to 2017-01-31

A real-time buoy was deployed to test the development of Environmental Acoustic Recording System (EARS) buoy satellite-transmitted data packages. Acoustic detections of cetacean (beaked whales, sperm whales, and dolphins) phonations were classified using Matlab. Detection events were reported by site, with associated filename, duration, number of clicks in each event, and timestamp for the beginning of the detection event.