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    Estimating Gulf of Maine zooplankton distributions using multiple frequency acoustic, video and environmental data

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    Date
    2001-02
    Author
    Warren, Joseph D.  Concept link
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    https://hdl.handle.net/1912/3476
    Location
    Gulf of Maine
    DOI
    10.1575/1912/3476
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     Zooplankton; Endeavor (Ship: 1976-) Cruise EN307 
    Abstract
    This thesis develops methods useful for estimating zooplankton distributions in the field by combining acoustic models and an integrated set of field data. The accuracy of existing scattering models for fluid-like and elastic-shelled animals is determined by analysis of scattering data from individual animals in a laboratory tank. Results indicate that simple two-ray scattering models are accurate and allow predictions of size or orientation of an animal to be made for certain animal orientations. A model for gas-bearing zooplankton is compared with in situ multiple frequency acoustic measurements from siphonophores. Estimates of the numerical density of these animals are made using echo integration data from a scientific echo-sounder. Multiple frequency acoustic scattering data from a survey of an internal wave are analyzed to determine the contributions from biological and physical sources. Net tow data provide information about biological scatterers while temperature and salinity profiles are used with a theoretical model to predict contributions from physical sources. Results indicate that scattering from physical sources is comparable to that from biological sources in certain regions and that spectra may be used to distinguish these sources. Improved estimates of biomass from acoustic scattering data were made by accounting for the scattering contributions from physical sources. This is the first work to quantify the scattering contributions from biological and physical sources of scattering in a field study.
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    Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution February 2001
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    Thesis: Warren, Joseph D., "Estimating Gulf of Maine zooplankton distributions using multiple frequency acoustic, video and environmental data", 2001-02, DOI:10.1575/1912/3476, https://hdl.handle.net/1912/3476
     

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