New SATURN Publication and Upcoming Events

Catch up on the SATURN project's 2024 activities and upcoming events!

Apr 30, 2024

Our newest peer-reviewed publication for 2024 'Modelling Sound Particle Motion in Shallow Water' is now available to access through The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. In this study, our SATURN partners from TNO Acoustics and Sonar and JASCO Applied Sciences aim to provide systematic verification of the applicability, implementation, and configuration of different models for underwater sound particle motion.

Read this new paper here!

SATURN’s First Policy Brief

Our first project policy brief 'On the Need for Standardized Bioacoustical Terminology' is now available from our project website. In this policy brief, SATURN urgently recommends the adoption of existing international terminology standards and the development of standardized and agreed-upon terminology to facilitate effective communication, a pre-requisite for monitoring and mitigation efforts worldwide.

Learn more or download your own copy at the following link!

Final Report on Vessel URN Measurements

We are delighted to announce the availability of the SATURN project's 'Final Report on Vessel URN Measurements' which you can now download from our project website! This document, which was written and compiled by Roberto Yubero, Mohammad Ghasemi and Øystein Solheim Pettersen, is structured into two main parts that relate to field tests undertaken in November 2022 and March 2023 by our research partners at TSI -Técnicas y Servicios de Ingeniería S.L. and DNV respectively.

Drone footage showing how URN measurements were performed during the Las Palmas test campaign can be seen in the video above!

SATURN Project’s General Assembly in Cork, Ireland

We were delighted to have had the opportunity to meet with our project consortium at this year’s SATURN General Assembly which took place from the 5th-6th of March, at University College Cork, Ireland. This event was hosted and organised by our coordinating partners at MaREI, the SFI Centre for Energy, Climate and Marine Research and brought together nearly 40 researchers from across the project consortium to discuss the progress of our project to date, and to plan for the next 12 months.

Read more about the event at the following link.

Conference Presentations

8th International Bio-Logging Science Symposium (4-8 March, 2024) Nina Maurer (TIHO) delivered a poster presentation entitled ‘Unsealing Behaviour: Missing Link Health Condition - Relationship Between Health Status and Animal Behavioural Changes in Tagged Harbour Seals’, and Dominik Nachtsheim (TIHO) presented a poster entitled ‘Frequent Vessel Noise Exposures of Harbour Seals in the North Sea May Reduce Foraging Opportunities’ at this event. Read More.
CLIA European Summit (11-14 March, 2024) Eric Baudin (Bureau Veritas) and Thomas Folegot (Quiet-Oceans) participated in a high level roundtable on the topic of ‘Marine Life Protection’ which was held in the Ocean Theatre at this event. Read More.
8th Symposium on Marine Propulsors (17-20 March, 2024) Our MARIN research partner Johan Bosschers presented a paper on behalf of himself and his co-authors and colleagues Thomas Lloyd and Frans Hendrik Lafeber as part of ‘Session 4a: Underwater Radiated Noise II' entitled ‘Ship URN Mitigation by Air Injection: Model-scale Experiments and Application to Full-scale Measurement Data’. Read More.

Upcoming Events of Interest

INTERNOISE 2024 (25-29 August, 2024) Eric Baudin (Bureau Veritas) will co-chair 'Session 18.2 - Impacts of Transportation Noise on Biodiversity' and José Antonio Díaz (Plocan) will present on his work with the SATURN VRE at this year's conference. Read More
Data Science Week 2024 (17-19 June, 2024) José Antonio Díaz (Plocan) will deliver a presentation on the ‘Development of a Virtual Research Environment for Analysis and Visualisation of the SATURN Data Products’ as part of this world conference event.
ICUA 2024 (17-20 June, 2024) Roberto Yubero (TSI) and Michael Ainslie (JASCO) will both deliver presentations at this year’s ‘International Conference on Underwater Acoustics’ as part of the ‘Radiating Noise from Ships’ session. Additionally, Hans Slabbekoorn will be participating in this event as a Keynote Speaker.

SATURN is an EU-funded project researching solutions to the problem of underwater radiated noise caused by shipping and other vessels. Learn more about SATURN at www.saturnh2020.eu.