Melissa S. Soldevilla

NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service Southeast Fisheries Science Center — United States

Environmental Science · Physical Sciences

24h-index1.9kcitations79works2.62yr avg
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Research Topics

Marine animal studies overview(76), Underwater Acoustics Research(55), Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior(21), Marine and fisheries research(19), Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics(12)

Publications79 total

Beaked whale dive behavior and acoustic detection range off Louisiana using three-dimensional acoustic tracking
PLoS ONE·2026Open Access
Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Seismic Airgun Recordings 2010-2024
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) - NOAA Central Library·2026Open Access
Utilisation of the Gulf of Mexico by western North Atlantic white sharks (<italic>Carcharodon carcharias</italic>) as an overwintering area
Wildlife Research·2026
Passive acoustics reveal low-latitude distribution of North Atlantic minke whales
ORBi (University of Liège)·2026Open Access
A framework for passive acoustic localization and tracking using a wide-baseline array demonstrated with Rice's whales ( <i>Balaenoptera ricei</i> )
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America·2026
Characterization and modeling source levels of commercial vessels in the Gulf of Mexico
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Shaping the acoustic field in the Gulf of Mexico: Marine mammals linked to topography and oceanographic features
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America·2025
A decade of declines in toothed whale densities following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill
Communications Earth & Environment·2024· 4 citedOpen Access
Habitat utilization by beaked whales in the western North Atlantic Ocean using passive acoustics
Marine Ecology Progress Series·2024· 6 citedOpen Access
Killer whales in the Gulf of Mexico and North Atlantic off the Southeastern United States
Frontiers in Marine Science·2024· 1 citedOpen Access
Accounting for sperm whale population demographics in density estimation using passive acoustic monitoring
Marine Ecology Progress Series·2024· 3 citedOpen Access
A density surface model describing the habitat of the Critically Endangered Rice’s whale Balaenoptera ricei in the Gulf of Mexico
Endangered Species Research·2024· 6 citedOpen Access
Rice's whale occurrence in the western Gulf of Mexico from passive acoustic recordings
Marine Mammal Science·2024· 9 citedOpen Access
Open-source machine learning BANTER acoustic classification of beaked whale echolocation pulses
Ecological Informatics·2024· 7 citedOpen Access
Vulnerability to climate change of United States marine mammal stocks in the western North Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico, and Caribbean
PLoS ONE·2023· 25 citedOpen Access
Kinematics and energetics of foraging behavior in Rice’s whales of the Gulf of Mexico
Scientific Reports·2023· 6 citedOpen Access
Passive acoustic localization and tracking of Rice’s whales (Balaenoptera ricei) in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America·2023
Modeling protected species distributions and habitats to inform siting and management of pioneering ocean industries: A case study for Gulf of Mexico aquaculture
PLoS ONE·2022· 8 citedOpen Access
Acoustic localization, validation, and characterization of Rice's whale calls
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America·2022· 14 citedOpen Access
Rice’s whales in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico: call variation and occurrence beyond the known core habitat
Endangered Species Research·2022· 18 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

John A. Hildebrand(32), Marie A. Roch(15), Erin M. Oleson(13), Sean M. Wiggins(12), Danielle Cholewiak(10), Simone Baumann‐Pickering(9), Lance Garrison(9), Catherine L. Berchok(7), Kaitlin E. Frasier(6), Holger Klinck(5), David K. Mellinger(5), Denise Risch(5), Sofie Van Parijs(5), Peter Corkeron(4), Leila Hatch(4), Ana Širović(4), Jay Barlow(4), Patricia E. Rosel(4), LP Garrison(4), Shannon Rankin(4)