For anyone building, dredging, or operating at sea, noise has to be measured, reported, and managed to keep permits and schedules on track. Passive acoustic monitoring is how projects manage noise compliance, but traditional hydrophone arrays are expensive, slow to return data, and hard to deploy. Sofar Ocean is joined by passive acoustics expert Jonathan Vallarta as he walks through the regulations, where monitoring falls short today, and how a real project uses acoustic data to reduce permitting risk.

In this webinar, Jonathan Vallarta, CEO and Founder of PAMOS, shares what a decade across academia and consulting has taught him about underwater noise. He'll cover the regulations that matter, the state of passsive acoustic monitoring today, and walk through a sample project from detection to mitigation.

What you'll learn

• Which international, regional, and national rules govern underwater noise, and what they require of your project
• Where passive acoustic monitoring falls short today on cost, data delays, deployment, and data quality, and what that means for compliance
• How real-time sensor networks and machine learning classification change what monitoring can catch
• How a project uses real-time detection, noise modeling, and mitigation to shorten permitting timelines and reduce uncertainty

Who should attend

Environmental consultants, regulators, port authorities, and project developers in offshore wind, dredging, marine construction, and oil and gas who are planning or running acoustic monitoring for compliance.

Speakers

• Jonathan Vallarta, PhD, CEO and Founder, PAMOS. Underwater acoustician and environmental scientist specializing in noise prediction and modeling, passive acoustic monitoring, and environmental compliance for ports and offshore construction.
• Sarah Ruth Merrigan, PhD, Product Marketing Manager, Sofar Ocean