Queen Charlotte Sound Hydrophone Deployed 2016-07-06

The Song Meter SM2M Hydrophone SN 681520 was deployed on 2016-07-06 at Queen Charlotte Sound. Queen Charlotte Sound is a sound of the Pacific Ocean in British Columbia, between Vancouver Island and Haida Gwaii. This device is a Hydrophone. Hydrophones are devices containing transducers that convert underwater sound waves into electrical signals. They are acoustic instruments that can process data while they are being collected to produce calibrated waveform data. Hydrophones are typically used to study vocalizations of marine mammals, ship traffic and ambient noise. It was deployed on a fixed platform. Data from this deployment were archived and made available through Ocean Networks Canada's Oceans 3.0 digital infrastructure, with quality assurance and derived data products following established practices.