MATOS - Mid-Atlantic Acoustic Telemetry Observation System

Project Title: Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries passive acoustic monitoring project

MATOS Project Code: MADMFPAM

Data Type: Deployment

Project Duration: March 2025 - December 2028

Project Description: In 2025 MA DMF initiated a passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) program to enhance our understanding of North Atlantic right whale presence in Massachusetts coastal waters. The monitoring network includes both near real-time and archival detection methods to collect acoustic data used to detect vocalizations of right whales and other large whale species. The archival PAM study includes bottom-mounted acoustic monitors at 17 different sites across Massachusetts state waters and adjacent federal waters. Each monitoring station includes an Innovasea VR2AR to facilitate recovery of archival hydrophone units, and each station is serviced approximately every 5 months.

Principal Investigator:	Leah Crowe (Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries)
Email:	leah.m.crowe@mass.gov

Point of Contact:	Manali Rege-Colt
Email:	manali.rege-colt@mass.gov

MADMF - Protected Species PAM