Acoustic recording: Pihaena (Moorea Island) January 2021

Dataset

"Highlighting the resilience potential of marine protected areas in the face of coral bleaching with passive acoustic monitoring"

Status: Marine Protected Area, coast: North, site: Pihaena, island: Moorea Island, depth:  10 m, position: external slope of the barrier reef, latitude: -17.4765, longitude: -149.8291, year: 2021, month: January, format: wav. The files are named DDHHMMSS (DD = day, HH = hour, MM = minutes, SS = seconds). 

Sampling frequency: 44.1 kHz, type of recorder: SNAP, type of hydrophone: HTI-96, sensitivity: between -170.1 and -169.6 dB re 1 V µPa^-1, gain: between 2 and 2.05 dB, acquisition: continuously.

This research is funded by two grants attributed to Xavier Raick. The first one is from the King Leopold III Fund for Nature Exploration and Conservation and the second one is from the University of Liège “financement mission scientifique”. This research is part of the project “Acoustics to Assess the Health Status of Reefs” hosted by the Ocean Decade Research Programme on the Maritime Acoustic Environment (OD-MAE) endorsed by the 2021-2030 United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (UNESCO).

More information can be found in the main text and in the Supplementary Materials of the related article by Raick et al. ""Highlighting the resilience potential of marine protected areas in the face of coral bleaching with passive acoustic monitoring".