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Scott Veirs
PeerJ Editor & Author
975 Points

Contributions by role

Author 135
Preprint Author 140
Editor 700

Contributions by subject area

Conservation Biology
Environmental Sciences
Marine Biology
Science Policy
Coupled Natural and Human Systems
Environmental Impacts
Animal Behavior
Ecology
Zoology
Aquaculture, Fisheries and Fish Science
Biodiversity
Evolutionary Studies

Scott Veirs

PeerJ Editor & Author

Summary

Oceanographer and bioacoustician facilitating the recovery of endangered regional icons of the Pacific Northwest (U.S.), particularly southern resident killer whales and Pacific salmon. I helped design and was the first major in the Earth Systems program at Stanford University, then earned a M.S. and PhD in Oceanography at the University of Washington. In 2003 I founded Beam Reach and taught ~50 undergraduates and recent graduates to ask and answer their own marine field science questions during 10-week field courses from 2005-2012. During the same period I helped create the Salish Sea Hydrophone Network -- orcasound.net -- which I continue to administer.

Animal Behavior Aquaculture, Fisheries & Fish Science Biological Oceanography Biosphere Interactions Conservation Biology Coupled Natural & Human Systems Ecology Ecosystem Science Environmental Impacts Environmental Sciences Marine Biology Natural Resource Management Zoology

Editorial Board Member

PeerJ - the Journal of Life & Environmental Sciences

Work details

President

Beam Reach Marine Science and Sustainability School
July 2003
Research and teaching

Websites

  • LinkedIn
  • Open notebook
  • Researchgate
  • Google Scholar

PeerJ Contributions

  • Articles 1
  • Preprints 2
  • Edited 5
  • Questions 1
  • Answers 1
February 2, 2016
Ship noise extends to frequencies used for echolocation by endangered killer whales
Scott Veirs, Val Veirs, Jason D. Wood
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1657 PubMed 27004149
February 15, 2018 - Version: 1
A key to quieter seas: half of ship noise comes from 15% of the fleet
Scott Veirs, Val Veirs, Rob Williams, Michael Jasny, Jason Wood
https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.26525v1
September 25, 2015 - Version: 3
Ship noise in an urban estuary extends to frequencies used for echolocation by endangered killer whales
Scott Veirs, Val Veirs, Jason D Wood
https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.955v3

Academic Editor on

August 8, 2018
Killer whale (Orcinus orca) interactions with blue-eye trevalla (Hyperoglyphe antarctica) longline fisheries
Paul Tixier, Mary-Anne Lea, Mark A. Hindell, Christophe Guinet, Nicolas Gasco, Guy Duhamel, John P.Y. Arnould
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5306 PubMed 30123694
August 1, 2018
The songs of male pied flycatchers: exploring the legacy of the fathers
Antonieta Labra, Helene M. Lampe
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5397 PubMed 30083477
March 26, 2018
Female harbor seal (Phoca vitulina) behavioral response to playbacks of underwater male acoustic advertisement displays
Leanna P. Matthews, Brittany Blades, Susan E. Parks
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4547 PubMed 29607261
January 12, 2018
Depth- and range-dependent variation in the performance of aquatic telemetry systems: understanding and predicting the susceptibility of acoustic tag–receiver pairs to close proximity detection interference
Stephen R. Scherrer, Brendan P. Rideout, Giacomo Giorli, Eva-Marie Nosal, Kevin C. Weng
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4249 PubMed 29340248
November 9, 2017
Mobile acoustic transects miss rare bat species: implications of survey method and spatio-temporal sampling for monitoring bats
Elizabeth C. Braun de Torrez, Megan A. Wallrichs, Holly K. Ober, Robert A. McCleery
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3940 PubMed 29134138

1 Question

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In 2nd sentence, "an mean range" should read "a mean range"
about Ship noise extends to frequencies used for echolocation by endangered killer whales

1 Answer

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sounds (major frequency bands and levels) of Aframax class oil tankers (245 m length)