"The NW Barents Sea continental margin has been the target of several surveys in the last decade: SVAIS (R/V Hesperides) in 2007, EGLACOM (R/V OGS Explora) in 2008, GLACIBAR (R/V Jan Mayen) in 2009, CORIBAR (R/V Maria S. Merian) in 2013 and PREPARED (R/V G.O. Sars) in 2014. One target of this cruise is the acquisition of a wealth of new geophysical and oceanographic data that allowed improving the knowledge on glacial and climatic history of this area. Furthermore, another objective of the EDIPO-DEGLABAR cruise is to map an underwater canal system along the continental slope off Bear Island. This channel has a strategic importance in the understanding of glacial, oceanographic and sedimentological dynamics along this margin."

"NoiXApp" is a crowdsourcing solution developed by the National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics - OGS to measure acoustic pollution in urban areas using the microphones of mobile phones. The solution is based on a mobile (Android and iOS) software application in which it is possible to acquire urban noise data performing the recording and calculation of the levels of the sound pressure. Georeferenced data are transmitted to the OGS infrastructure, the data are anonymized, integrated, validated and mapped onto an open-data web portal.

The seas and oceans provide resources for a range of industrial and recreational activities, from commercial shipping to recreational boating, and from resource exploration to wind energy. All these rapidly expanding activities generate sounds, often very loud, that travel long distances through water. The growth of the ocean economy means that human-generated noise is becoming dominant in marine soundscapes worldwide. It has been observed that this can be very harmful to marine life, but the extent of the damage has not been quantified. Scientific knowledge of underwater noise pollution is growing rapidly but remains limited; further research is needed to provide policymakers with essential guidelines for the sustainable exploitation of marine resources. Future noise pollution models will need to include precise information on specific noise sources, the propagation of elastic waves in marine environments, and the impact of noise on individual marine species. SWIM helps us understand how new wind farms could affect toothed whales, depending on their characteristics (such as fixed or floating turbines) and their location. The preparatory survey lasted two days, from 19 to 20 August 2024. During this time, an initial set of recordings was made to identify possible issues and to test the instrumentation to be used in the main measurement campaigns. The best locations for the deployment of the extended period survey planned for later were also defined during this period. During this campaign, several measurements were acquired following a transect strategy, with progressively increasing distance from the turbines and increasing sea bottom depth. This allows modelling of the actual propagation of turbine-related noise and comparison with the measurements.

The seas and oceans provide resources for a range of industrial and recreational activities, from commercial shipping to recreational boating, and from resource exploration to wind energy. All these rapidly expanding activities generate sounds, often very loud, that travel long distances through water. The growth of the ocean economy means that human-generated noise is becoming dominant in marine soundscapes worldwide. It has been observed that this can be very harmful to marine life, but the extent of the damage has not been quantified. Scientific knowledge of underwater noise pollution is growing rapidly but remains limited; further research is needed to provide policymakers with essential guidelines for the sustainable exploitation of marine resources. Future noise pollution models will need to include precise information on specific noise sources, the propagation of elastic waves in marine environments, and the impact of noise on individual marine species. SWIM helps us understand how new wind farms could affect toothed whales, depending on their characteristics (such as fixed or floating turbines) and their location. The plan for the Recovery and Measurement Survey was to deploy two bottom recorders near the wind turbine blades, specifically at wind turbine number 2 and wind turbine number 6. For wind turbine number 2, the bottom recorder was positioned one metre from the turbine, while for wind turbine number 6, the sensor was placed five metres away. The purpose of measuring at different distances was to empirically detect the dispersion of noise following its propagation.

"The NW Barents Sea continental margin has been the target of several surveys in the last decade: SVAIS (R/V Hesperides) in 2007, EGLACOM (R/V OGS Explora) in 2008, GLACIBAR (R/V Jan Mayen) in 2009, CORIBAR (R/V Maria S. Merian) in 2013 and PREPARED (R/V G.O. Sars) in 2014. One target of this cruise is the acquisition of a wealth of new geophysical and oceanographic data that allowed improving the knowledge on glacial and climatic history of this area. Furthermore, another objective of the EDIPO-DEGLABAR cruise is to map an underwater canal system along the continental slope off Bear Island. This channel has a strategic importance in the understanding of glacial, oceanographic and sedimentological dynamics along this margin."

"The NW Barents Sea continental margin has been the target of several surveys in the last decade: SVAIS (R/V Hesperides) in 2007, EGLACOM (R/V OGS Explora) in 2008, GLACIBAR (R/V Jan Mayen) in 2009, CORIBAR (R/V Maria S. Merian) in 2013 and PREPARED (R/V G.O. Sars) in 2014. One target of this cruise is the acquisition of a wealth of new geophysical and oceanographic data that allowed improving the knowledge on glacial and climatic history of this area. Furthermore, another objective of the EDIPO-DEGLABAR cruise is to map an underwater canal system along the continental slope off Bear Island. This channel has a strategic importance in the understanding of glacial, oceanographic and sedimentological dynamics along this margin."

The main objective of EGLACOM is the geophysical and stratigraphic high-resolution study of an ice stream dominated marine depositional system of the Arctic margin in order to reconstruct the margin evolution locally from the Pliocene to the recent-most deglaciation, and to define the sedimentary architecture and seafloor morphology as it changed through time since the onset of glacial conditions. The target study area is the southern margin of Svalbard, and in particular the glacial sedimentary system fed by the ice stream once occupying the Storfjiorden glacial trough in the northern Barents Sea. 1071 kilometres of MultiChannel Seismic profiles have been acquired using Sleeve Airguns 96-channel Sercel digital streamer.

The main objective of EGLACOM is the geophysical and stratigraphic high-resolution study of an ice stream dominated marine depositional system of the Arctic margin in order to reconstruct the margin evolution locally from the Pliocene to the recent-most deglaciation, and to define the sedimentary architecture and seafloor morphology as it changed through time since the onset of glacial conditions. The target study area is the southern margin of Svalbard, and in particular the glacial sedimentary system fed by the ice stream once occupying the Storfjiorden glacial trough in the northern Barents Sea. 1071 kilometres of MultiChannel Seismic profiles have been acquired using Sleeve Airguns 96-channel Sercel digital streamer.