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  • 2016 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Overview

Peter L. Tyack is affiliated with the University of St Andrews in the United Kingdom. Their research spans primarily Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a notable focus on subfields such as Ecology, Oceanography, Developmental Biology, Atmospheric Science, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The scientist's main topics of work include Marine Animal Studies Overview, Underwater Acoustics Research, Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior, Arctic and Antarctic Ice Dynamics, Underwater Vehicles and Communication Systems, Cephalopods and Marine Biology, and Non-Invasive Vital Sign Monitoring.

Peter L. Tyack has contributed extensively to several publication venues. Frequent outlets include:

  • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
  • The journal of cetacean research and management. Special issue
  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Aquatic Mammals
  • Marine Mammal Science

Recent significant papers authored or co-authored by Peter L. Tyack demonstrate a range of ecological and acoustic research topics:

  • Understanding the impacts of anthropogenic sound on beaked whales (2023), The journal of cetacean research and management. Special issue
  • Understanding the combined effects of multiple stressors: A new perspective on a longstanding challenge (2022), The Science of The Total Environment
  • Fear of Killer Whales Drives Extreme Synchrony in Deep Diving Beaked Whales (2020), Scientific Reports
  • The multi-dimensional nature of vocal learning (2021), Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Marine Mammal Noise Exposure Criteria: Assessing the Severity of Marine Mammal Behavioral Responses to Human Noise (2021), Aquatic Mammals

Frequent collaborators include Peter T. Madsen, James J. Finneran, Dorian S. Houser, Patrick J. O. Miller, and Randall S. Wells, with whom Peter L. Tyack has co-authored multiple publications.

Among awards, Peter L. Tyack was named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2016.

Best Publications

  • A digital acoustic recording tag for measuring the response of wild marine mammals to sound

    M.P. Johnson;P.L. Tyack

  • Responses of cetaceans to anthropogenic noise

    Douglas P. Nowacek;Lesley H. Thorne;Lesley H. Thorne;David W. Johnston;Peter L. Tyack

  • Estimating animal population density using passive acoustics

    Tiago A. Marques;Tiago A. Marques;Len Thomas;Stephen Martin;David Mellinger

  • The bottlenose dolphin: social relationships in a fission-fusion society

    Rc Connor;RS Wells;J. Mann;AJ Read

  • Marine mammal noise exposure criteria: Initial scientific recommendations.

    Brandon L. Southall;Ann E. Bowles;William T. Ellison;James J. Finneran

  • Wind turbine underwater noise and marine mammals: implications of current knowledge and data needs

    Peter T. Madsen;Magnus Wahlberg;Jakob Tougaard;Klaus Lucke

  • Extreme diving of beaked whales

    Peter L. Tyack;Mark Johnson;Natacha Aguilar Soto;Albert Sturlese

  • Cetacean Societies: Field Studies of Dolphins and Whales

    Mason T. Weinrich;J. Mann;R. C. Connor;P. L. Tyack

  • Beaked whales echolocate on prey

    Mark P. Johnson;Peter T. Madsen;Walter M. X. Zimmer;Natacha Aguilar De Soto

  • Measuring acoustic habitats

    Nathan D. Merchant;Nathan D. Merchant;Nathan D. Merchant;Kurt M. Fristrup;Mark P. Johnson;Peter L. Tyack

  • Deep‐diving foraging behaviour of sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus)

    Stephanie L. Watwood;Patrick J. O. Miller;Mark Johnson;Peter T. Madsen

  • Animal social complexity : intelligence, culture, and individualized societies

    F. B. M. de Waal;Peter L. Tyack

  • Errata: Marine Mammal Noise Exposure Criteria: Updated Scientific Recommendations for Residual Hearing Effects

    Brandon L. Southall;James J. Finneran;Colleen Reichmuth;Paul E. Nachtigall

  • Beaked Whales Respond to Simulated and Actual Navy Sonar

    Peter L. Tyack;Walter M. X. Zimmer;David Moretti;Brandon L. Southall

  • MALE COMPETITION IN LARGE GROUPS OF WINTERING HUMPBACK WHALES

    Peter Tyack;Hal Whitehead

  • Interactions between singing Hawaiian humpback whales and conspecifics nearby

    Peter Tyack

  • The 20‐Hz signals of finback whales (Balaenoptera physalus)

    William A. Watkins;Peter Tyack;Karen E. Moore;James E. Bird

  • IMPLICATIONS FOR MARINE MAMMALS OF LARGE-SCALE CHANGES IN THE MARINE ACOUSTIC ENVIRONMENT

    Peter L. Tyack

  • Whale songs lengthen in response to sonar

    Patrick J. O. Miller;Nicoletta Biassoni;Amy Samuels;Amy Samuels;Peter L. Tyack

  • Signature whistles of free-ranging bottlenose dolphins Tursiops truncatus: stability and mother-offspring comparisons

    Laela S. Sayigh;Peter L. Tyack;Randall S. Wells;Michael D. Scott

Frequent Co-Authors

Patrick J. O. Miller
Patrick J. O. Miller University of St Andrews
Peter T. Madsen
Peter T. Madsen Aarhus University
Brandon L. Southall
Brandon L. Southall University of California, Santa Cruz
Douglas P. Nowacek
Douglas P. Nowacek Duke University
Len Thomas
Len Thomas University of St Andrews
Mark A. Johnson
Mark A. Johnson Yale University
Randall S. Wells
Randall S. Wells Chicago Zoological Society
Ari S. Friedlaender
Ari S. Friedlaender University of California, Santa Cruz
Jeremy A. Goldbogen
Jeremy A. Goldbogen Stanford University
Christopher W. Clark
Christopher W. Clark Cornell University

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