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The Effect of Sound on Fish and Marine Invertebrates
Paul White
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Outline
• Introduction/Update to ISVR
• The use of, and problems associated with, sound underwater.
• Sound and Anguilliformes (eels and lamprey)
• Impact of sound on Marine Invertebrates
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The University of Southampton
Southampton
London
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Academic and administrative structure
8 Faculties
ISVR
University of Southampton
Faculty of Engineering and the Environment (FEE): 4 Academic Units
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Faculty of Engineering and the Environment (FEE)
FEE
ISVR CMEES AACE Eng. Sci. Civil Aero. Mech.
Education Enterprise
Consultancy
ISVR Consulting
USAIS Academic Units
Departments
ANTC Micro- fluidics
Structures
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Director: Paul White
Dynamics: David Thompson
Acoustics Phil Joseph
Human Sciences David Simpson
Signal Processing & Control Group
Steve Daley
Clinical and Consulting Units
USAIS (Uni Soton Auditory Implant Service)
Carl Verschuur
ISVR Consulting Malcolm Smith
Research Groups
Deputy HoS Education: Neil Ferguson
ISVR internal organisation
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Academic Consulting Unit
and Clinic
Research
Administrative
Undergraduate M.Eng./B.Eng./B.Sc.
Graduate M.Sc.
M.Phil./Ph.D.
~ 90
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65 31
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~130
~50
Staff and students
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Programmes of Study
BEng/MEng Acoustical Engineering (3/4 years) BSc Acoustics and Music (3 years) BSc Audiology (4 years)
MSc Sound and Vibration Studies (1 year) MSc Audiology (1 year)
MPhil/PhD (3 years) EngD (4 years) – only open to UK students
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Highlights of Funding Successes
• Platform grant + large industrial contract in 3D audio.
• The Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre (UTC) in gas turbine noise.
• BAe support for Centre for Research in Active Control (CRAC)
• Mapping the Underworld
• EU Grant on Cochlear modelling
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Bioacoustics in general
• Areas of interest:
– How animals hear and produce sound: biometics
– The impact of noise on animals
– Use of acoustics to study animal behaviour
– Use of acoustics to manipulate animals
• Species groups commonly considered:
– Marine mammals
– Birds
– Fish
– Invertebrates
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Bioacoustics in ISVR
• Topics considered include:
– Using dolphins to inspire novel sonar/radar technologies.
– Bat echolocation
– Analysis and classification of dolphin whistles
– Automated humpback whale song classification
– Monitoring owl populations
– Sound and fish
– Impacts of marine invertebrates
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Eels (European eel – Anguilla anguilla)
• An IUCN red listed species.
– Current recruitment is 1% of pre-1980’s levels.
• European Union states that nations must implement an eel management plan.
• Eel life cycle (catadromous)
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What has this to do with acoustics?
• The EU require that (at least) 40% of adult eels can return to the sea to spawn.
• Eel migration is encumbered by man-made structures and water abstraction sites.
• Mechanical screening many not be effective – is an acoustic barrier a viable alternative?
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Eel hearing
• Electrophsyiological measurement of an audiogram.
• Eels appear to be sensitive to low frequency sounds.
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Jerko et al., J. Comp. Physio. A, 455-459, 1989
+100 dB to convert to “re 1 µPa”
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On-going work at ISVR
• In collaboration with colleagues in the International Centre for Ecohydraulics Research (ICER) based in CMEES (Civil, Maritime and Environmental Engineering Sci Unit) in FEE.
• Field measurements of eels around an infra sound source.
• Computing electrophysiological and behavioural audiograms for Anguilliformes (eels and lamprey).
– Other work in this area includes: schooling behaviour in response to sound, the Lombard effect in fish, the effect of sound on sea-horses, study of pile driving noise, noise mapping and the potential effect on eel migration routes.
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Field Measurements of Eel Behaviour
• Field site is at Longham in Dorset (~30 miles from Soton) on the River Stour.
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Infrasound source Eel rack (once commercial)
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Experimental Procedure
• The sound field from the source is mapped.
• Migrating eels are trapped and acoustically tagged.
• They are released upstream of the study site and their movements studied when the infrasound source is on and when it is off.
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On
Off
Off
On
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Audiograms of Animals
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• In general two ways of estimating the audiograms of animals.
– Behavioural
• Play a sound an look for a measureable response – can be augmented via conditioning
– Electrophysiological
• Use electrodes to detect the brain activity associated with hearing the sound – e.g. Jerko’s measurement of an eel’s audiogram
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Behavioural Tests for Anguilliformes
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Eels and Lamprey
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Electrophysiological Tests
• Based on measuring auditory brainstem responses (ABRs)
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Lamprey
Electrodes
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Marine Invertebrates
• In collaboration with colleagues at the National Oceanography Centre.
• The effect of sound on marine mammals and fish has been considered for some time (albeit many questions remain).
• The possible effect of noise on benthic invertebrate species has received almost no consideration.
• These species form a vital part of the ecosystem.
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Chosen Species
• Venerupis philippinarum (bivalve/clam)
• Amphiura filiformis (brittle star)
• Nephrops norvegicus (Norway lobster)
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Measuring impact of Sound on Invertebrates
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Metrics
• Three conditions, 7 day exposures:
– Ambient noise
– Impulsive (pile driving)
– Continuous Ship
• Bioturbation (luminophores)
• Glucose and latcose
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Results
• The Amphiura showed no response
• Whereas the bivalves and Nephrops did modify their behaviour.
– These bivalves reduce activity in response to sound.
– Conversely Nephrops increased activity (significantly for continuous sounds and not significantly for impulsive)
• The biochemistry did not reveal any significant changes in the glucose or lactate as a result of the exposures.
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Thank you for listening (unlike the Amphiura)
Any questions?