Dr Carol Sparling

Honorary Research Fellow

Researcher profile

Email

ces6@st-andrews.ac.uk

PhD supervision

• Katherine Whyte

Selected publications

• Estimating the effects of pile driving sounds on seals: pitfalls and possibilities

  Whyte, K. F., Russell, D. JF., Sparling, C. E., Binnerts, B. & Hastie, G. D., Jun 2020, In : Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 147, 6, p. 3948-3958

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Passive acoustic methods for tracking the 3D movements of small cetaceans around marine structures

  Gillespie, D., Palmer, L., MacAulay, J., Sparling, C. & Hastie, G., 29 May 2020, In : PLoS ONE. 15, 5, 16 p., e0229058.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Automated detection and tracking of marine mammals: a novel sonar tool for monitoring effects of marine industry

  Hastie, G. D., Wu, G-M., Moss, S., Jepp, P., MacAulay, J. D. J., Lee, A., Sparling, C. E., Evers, C. H. M. & Gillespie, D. M., 6 Sep 2019, In : Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems. 29, S1, p. 119-130

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Three-dimensional movements of harbour seals in a tidally energetic channel: application of a novel sonar tracking system

  Hastie, G. D., Bivins, M., Coram, A., Gordon, J., Jepp, P., MacAulay, J., Sparling, C. & Gillespie, D., Apr 2019, In : Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems. 29, 4, p. 564-575

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Empirical measures of harbor seal behavior and avoidance of an operational tidal turbine

  Joy, R., Wood, J. D., Sparling, C. E., Tollit, D. J., Copping, A. E. & McConnell, B. J., Nov 2018, In : Marine Pollution Bulletin. 136, p. 92-106 15 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• First in situ passive acoustic monitoring for marine mammals during operation of a tidal turbine in Ramsey Sound, Wales

  Malinka, C. E., Gillespie, D. M., Macaulay, J. D. J., Joy, R. & Sparling, C. E., 12 Mar 2018, In : Marine Ecology Progress Series. 590, p. 247-266 20 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Harbour seals (Phoca vitulina) around an operational tidal turbine in Strangford Narrows: no barrier effect but small changes in transit behaviour

  Sparling, C. E., Lonergan, M. & McConnell, B. J., Feb 2018, In : Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems. 28, 1, p. 194-204

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Fine-scale harbour seal usage for informed marine spatial planning

  Jones, E. L., Sparling, C. E., McConnell, B. J., Morris, C. & Smout, S. C., 14 Sep 2017, In : Scientific Reports. 7, 11 p., 11581.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Fine-scale harbour seal at-sea usage around Orkney and the North coast of Scotland

  Jones, E. L., Smout, S. C., Blight, C. J., Sparling, C. E. & McConnell, B. J., 15 Dec 2016, Marine Scotland. 37 p. (Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science; vol. 7, no. 27)

  Research output: Book/Report ? Commissioned report

• Foraging behaviour and prey consumption by grey seals (Halichoerus grypus)-spatial and trophic overlaps with fisheries in a marine protected area

  Vincent, C., Ridoux, V., Fedak, M. A., McConnell, B. J., Sparling, C. E., Leaute, J. P., Jouma'a, J. & Spitz, J., 1 Nov 2016, In : ICES Journal of Marine Science. 73, 10, p. 2653-2665 13 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

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