NOAA Fisheries
Office of Protected Resources

Documents and Reports

(Note: All documents are in PDF format.)

Final Report:

• Odontocete Salvage, Necropsy, Ear Extraction, and Imaging Protocols
  Nina M. Young (editor), Julie Arruda, Alexander Costidis, Scott Cramer, Darlene R. Ketten, William McLellan, Eric W. Montie, Michael Moore, Sentiel Rommel

Additional Reading:

• Abundance and densities of beaked and bottlenose whales (family Ziphiidae)
  Jay Barlow, Megan C. Ferguson, William F. Perrin, Lisa Ballace, Tim Gerrodette, Gerald Joyce, Colin D. MacLeod, Keith Mullin, Debra L. Plka, and Gordon Waring

• Acute and Chronic Gas Bubble Lesions in Cetaceans Stranded in the United Kingdom
  P. D. Jepson, R. Deaville, I. A. P. Patterson, A. M. Pocknell, H. M. Ross, J. R. Baker, F. E. Howie, R. J. Reid, A. Colloff and A. A. Cunningham

• Beaked Whale Necropsy Findings for Strandings in the Bahamas, Puerto Rico, and Madeira, 1999-2002
  Darlene R. Ketten

• Cetaceans Strandings Investigation and Co-ordination in the UK: Report to Defra for the period 1 January 2000 - 31 December 2004
  Paul D. Jepson (editor)

• Elements of Beaked Whale Anatomy and Diving Physiology, and Some Hypothetical Causes of Sonar-related Stranding
  Rommel, S.A., Costidis, A.M., Fernandez, A., Jepson, P.D., Pabst, A., McLellan, W., Houser, D.S., Cranford, T., van Helden, A., Allen, D. and Barrows, N.

• Gas-bubble lesions in stranded cetaceans
  P. D. Jepson, M. Arbelo, R. Deaville, I. A. P. Patterson, P. Castro, J. R. Baker, E. Degollada, H. M. Ross, P. Heeaez, A.M. Pocknell, F. Rodríguez, F. E. Howie, A. Espinosa, R. J. Reid, J. R. Jaber, V. Martin, A. A. Cunningham, and A. Fernández

• Known and inferred distributions of beaked whale species (Cetacea: Ziphiidae)
  Colin D. MacLeod, William F. Perrin, Robert Pitman, Jay Barlow, Lisa Ballance, Angela D'Amico, Tim Gerrodette, Gerald Joyce, Keith D. Mullin, Debra L. Parka, and Gordon T. Waring

• Mitigating, monitoring and assessing the effects of anthropogenic sound on beaked whales
  Jay Barlow and Robert Gisiner

• Odontocete Salvage and Necropsy Manual
  Sentiel Rommel, William McLellan, Alexander Costidis, Michael Moore

• Pathology: Whales, sonar and decompression sickness
  A. Fernández, M. Arbelo, R. Deaville, I. A. P. Patterson, P. Castro, J. R. Baker, E. Degollada, H. M. Ross, P. Herráez, A. M. Pocknell, E. Rodríguez, F. E. Howie, A. Espinosa, R. J. Reid, J. R. Jaber, V. Martin, A. A. Cunningham, and P. D. Jepson

• Properties of the underwater sound fields during some well documented beaked whale mass stranding events
  Gerald L. d'Spain, Angela D'Amico, and David M. Fromm

• A review of beaked whale behaviour and ecology in relation to assessing and mitigating impacts of anthropogenic noise
  Colin D. MacLeod and Angela D'Amico

• A review of Cuvier's beaked whale strandings in the Mediterranean Sea
  Michael Podestá, Angela D'Amico, Gianni Pavan, Aimilia Drougas, Anastasia Komnenou, and Nicola Portunato

• Understanding the impacts of anthropogenic sound on beaked whales
  T.M. Cox, T.J. Ragen, A.J. Read, E. Vos, R.W. Baird, K. Balcomb, J. Barlow, J. Caldwell, T. Cranford, L. Crum, A. D'Amico, G. D'Spain, A. Fernández, J. Finneran, R. Gentry, W. Gerth, F. Gulland, J. Hildebrand, D. Houser, T. Hullar, P.D. Jepson, D. Ketten, C.D. MacLeod, P. Miller, S. Moore, D. Mountain, D. Palka, P. Ponganis, S. Rommel, T. Rowles, B. Taylor, P. Tyack, D. Wartzok, R. Gisiner, J. Mead, L. Benner.