Sperm Whale Seismic Study in the Gulf of Mexico

The first annual report for the Sperm Whale Seismic Study (SWSS) detailed the program objectives, tasks, and participants, the data collection and processing for the S-tag and D-tag cruises in year 1, and the methods for data collection and quality assurance/quality control(QA/QC), as well as presenting preliminary technical discussions (Jochens and Biggs 2003).This report focuses on the data collection and analysis efforts during year 2 of the study.