Book Chapter
Lewandowski, Jill, Luczkovich, Joseph, Cato, Douglas and Dunlop, Rebecca (2016). Summary report panel 3: Gap analysis from the perspective of animal biology: Results of the panel discussion from the third international conference on the effects of noise on aquatic life. In The Effects of Noise on Aquatic Life II (pp. 1277-1281) New York, United States: Springer New York LLC. doi:10.1007/978-1-4939-2981-8_161
Cato, Douglas H., Dunlop, Rebecca A., Noad, Michael J., McCauley, Robert D., Kniest, Eric, Paton, David and Kavanagh, Ailbhe S. (2016). Addressing challenges in studies of behavioral responses of whales to noise. In Arthur N. Popper and Anthony Hawkins (Ed.), The effects of noise on aquatic life II (pp. 145-152) New York, United States: Springer. doi:10.1007/978-1-4939-2981-8_17
Harcourt, Robert, Marsh, Helene, Slip, David, Chilvers, Louise, Noad, Mike and Dunlop, Rebecca (2015). Marine mammals, back from the brink? Contemporary conservation issues. In Adam Stow, Norman Maclea and Gregory I. Holwell (Ed.), Austral ark: the state of wildlife in Australia and New Zealand (pp. 322-353) Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.
Conference Paper
Dunlop, Rebecca, Noad, Michael and Cato, Douglas (2013). Modification of humpback whale social sound repertoire and vocal source levels with increased noise. In: Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics: ICA 2013 Montreal. ICA 2013: 21st International Congress on Acoustics, Montréal, QC, Canada, (010058.1-010058.6). 2-7 June, 2013. doi:10.1121/1.4799213
Cato, D., Dunlop, R., Noad, M., McCauley, R., Salgado Kent, C., Kniest, H., Paton, D., Noad, J. and Jenner, C. (2012). Studies of the effectiveness of ramp-up as a mitigation method in impacts of noise on marine mammals. In: 11th European Conference on Underwater Acoustics, Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K., (23-23). 2-6 July 2012.
Cato, Douglas H., Noad, Michael J., Dunlop, Rebecca A., McCauley, Robert D., Gales, Nicholas J., Salgado Kent, Chandra P., Kniest, Hendrik, Paton, David, Jenner, K. Curt S., Noad, John, Maggi, Amos L., Parnum, Iain M. and Duncan, Alec J. (2012). Project BRAHSS: behavioural response of humpback whales to seismic surveys. In: Terrance McMinn, Acoustics 2012 Fremantle: Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Australian Acoustical Society (AAS2012). 2012 Annual Conference of the Australian Acoustical Society (AAS2012), Freemantle, WA, Australia, (). 21 - 23 November 2012.
Dunlop, Rebecca A., Noad, Michael J. and Cato, Douglas H. (2012). Behavioral response studies: Problems with statistical power. In: Arthur N. Popper and Anthony Hawkins, The Effects of Noise on Aquatic Life. Second International Conference on the Effects of Noise on Aquatic Life, Cork, Ireland, (293-298). 15-20 August 2010. doi:10.1007/978-1-4419-7311-5_65
Dunlop. Rebecca (2012). High resolution data from DTAGS on the response of humpback whales to noise from seismic air guns. In: Acoustics 2012 Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, (3522-3522). 13-18 May 2012. doi:10.1121/1.4709322
Noad, Michael, Dunlop, Rebecca and Cato, Douglas (2012). The Lombard effect in humpback whales. In: Acoustics 2012 Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, (3456-3456). 13-18 May 2012. doi:10.1121/1.4709026
Cato, Douglas, McCauley, Robert, Noad, Michael, Dunlop, Rebecca, Kniest, Hendrick, Gales, Nicholas, Salgado Kent, Chandra, Paton, David, Noad, John, Jenner, Curt, Duncan, Alec and Maggi, Amos (2012). Acoustic issues in studies of behavioral response of humpback whales to seismic ramp-up and hard start. In: Acoustics 2012 Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, (3457-3457). 13-18 May 2012. doi:10.1121/1.4709029
Dunlop, R., Noad, M. and Cato, D. (2011). Behavioural response studies in large marine mammals. In: Australian Marine Sciences Association, 48th Annual Conference, Fremantle WA, (). 3-7 July 2011.
Cato, D.H., Noad, M. J., Dunlop, R. A., McCauley, R., Salgado Kent, C., Gales, N. J., Kniest, H., Noad, J. and Paton, D. (2011). Behavioural responses of Australian humpback whales to seismic surveys. In: 161st meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Seattle, United States, (). 23-27 May 2011.
Kavanagh, Ailbhe S., Dunlop, Rebecca A., Goldizen, Anne W. and Noad, Michael J. (2011). Measuring natural behavior in migrating humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae). In: 19th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals, Tampa, FL, United States, (). 27 November - 2 December 2011.
Cato, Douglas H., Dunlop, Rebecca A., McCauley, Robert D., Noad, Michael J., Parnum, Iain M., Savage, Mark, Gibbs, Susan, Donnelly, David and Blewett, Michelle (2011). Listening to ocean sounds: using underwater acoustics to study marine animals. In: Program and Abstracts for the 2011 meeting of the Australian Marine Sciences Association. Australian Marine Sciences Association 48th Annual Conference, Fremantle, Australia, (36-36). 3-7 July 2011.
Noad, Michael, Cato, Douglas, Dunlop, Rebecca and McCauley, Robert (2011). Measuring behavioural impacts of seismic surveys on humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae). In: Program and Abstracts for the 2011 meeting of the Australian Marine Sciences Association. Australian Marine Sciences Association 48th Annual Conference, Fremantle, Australia, (104-104). 3-7 July 2011.
Cato, D.H., Noad, M.J., Dunlop, R.A., McCauley, R.D., Gales, N.J., Salgado Kent, C.P., Paton, D., Kniest, H. and Noad, J. (2011). Behavioural responses of Australian humpback whales to seismic surveys. In: 4th conference on the Effects of Sound in the Ocean on Marine Mammals, Amsterdam, (). 5-8 September 2011.
Rekdahl, M., Dunlop, R., Goldizen, A. and Noad, M. (2011). Sequence analysis of non-song social calls in migrating humpback whales. In: Society for Marine Mammalogy 19th Biennial Conference, Tampa, United States, (). 27 November - 3 December 2011.
Cato, D., Noad, M. J., McCauley, R.D., Dunlop, R. A. and Gales, N. (2010). Behavioural Response Study with airguns and humpback whales.. In: APPEA National Environment Conference, Coolum, Australia, (). Aug 31 – Sep 2 2010.
Rekdahl, M. L., Dunlop, R. A., Goldizen, A. W. and Noad, M. J. (2010). Temporal variability in the social vocalization repertoire of humpback whales migrating off the east coast of Australia.. In: 24th Conference of the European Cetacean Society, Stralsund, Germany, (). 20-25 March 2010.
Cato, Douglas H., Savage, Mark, Dunlop, Rebecca A., Parnum, Iain, Blewitt, Michelle, Gibbs, Sue, Donnelly, David, Cleary, Jane and McCauley, Robert D. (2010). Acoustic surveying for beaked whales in the Coral Sea as a mitigation measure for naval exercises. In: OCEANS 2010 IEEE. OCEANS'10 IEEE Sydney, OCEANSSYD 2010, Sydney, NSW, (). 24 27 May 2010. doi:10.1109/OCEANSSYD.2010.5603622
Noad, M. J., Dunlop, R. A., Cato, D. H. and McCauley, R. D. (2009). Australian acoustic behavioural response studies.. In: International Behavioral Response Study Workshop, Lerici, Italy, (). April 14-15 2009.
Dunlop, R. A., Noad, M. J., Cato, D. H., Miller, P. J. and Stokes, M. D. (2009). Playback experiments on the east coast of Australia. In: 3rd Intergovernmental Conference: The Effects of Sound in the Ocean on Marine Mammals, Lerici, Italy, (). 7-9 September 2009.
Cato, D.H., McCauley, R. D., Noad, M. J., Dunlop, R. A. and Gales, N. J. (2009). Proposal for a series of Controlled Exposure Experiments with air guns and Australian humpback whales. In: Proceedings : 3rd Intergovernmental Conference: The Effects of Sound in the Ocean on Marine Mammals. 3rd Intergovernmental Conference: The Effects of Sound in the Ocean on Marine Mammals, Lerici, Italy, (). 7-9 September 2009.
Smith, J., Goldizen, A., Dunlop, R., Cato, D. and Noad, M. (2007). Variation in humpback whale song within a social context. In: 17th Biennial Conference of the Society for Marine Mammology, Cape Town, South Africa, (). 29 November - 3 December, 2007.
Dunlop, R.A., Cato, D. and Noad, Michael J. (2007). Changes in vocal amplitude during social interactions in the Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae). In: 17th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals. 17th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals, Cape Town, South Africa, (1-2). 29 November - 3 December 2007.
Rekdahl, M. L., Noad, M. J., Dunlop, R. A. and Goldizen, A. (2007). The acoustic behaviour of provisioned and non-provisioned bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus) in Moreton Bay, Australia. In: Proceedings of the 17th Biennial Meeting of the Society for Marine Mammalogy,. 17th Biennial Meeting of the Society for Marine Mammalogy, Cape Town, South Africa, (). 29 November- 3 December 2007.
Rekdahl, M. L., Noad, M. J., Dunlop, R. A. and Goldzien, A. (2007). Comparisons of acoustic behaviour between wild provisioned and wild unprovisioned bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus) in Moreton Bay, Australia. In: 17th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals, Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC), Cape Town, South Africa, (). 29 November - 3 December, 2007.
Cato, D.H., Noad, M. J., Stokes, M. D., Dunlop, R. A., Smith, J., Miller, P. J., Biassoni, N., Kniest, H., Noad, J, Thode, A. and Deane, G.B. (2006). Humpback Whale Acoustic Research Collaboration studies on the use of sound by humpback whales.. In: Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 151st Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Providence, RI, (3373). 5-9 June 2006.
Noad, M J, Dunlop, R A, Cato, H., Stokes, D, Miller, P. and Biassoni, N. (2006). Humpback whale social sounds: Sources levels and response to playback. In: Acoustical Society of America. Fourth Joint Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the Acoustical Society of Japan, Hawaii, (). 28 November - 2 December 2006. doi:10.1121/1.4787051
Dunlop, Rebecca A., Noad, Michael J., Cato, Douglas H. and Stokes, M. Dale (2006). Look who's talking: Social communication in migrating humpback whales. In: The journal of the Acoustical Society of America: Fourth Joint Meeting: ASA and ASJ. Fourth Joint Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the Acoustical Society of Japan, Hawaii, United States, (3265-3266). 28 November - 2 December 2006. doi:10.1121/1.4776866
Noad, Michael J., Dunlop, Rebecca A., Cato, Douglas H., Stokes, M. Dale, Miller, Patrick and Biassoni, Nicoletta (2006). The Humpback Whale acoustic research collaboration studies on the use of sound by humpback whales. In: The journal of the Acoustical Society of America: Fourth Joint Meeting: ASA and ASJ. Fourth Joint Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the Acoustical Society of Japan, Hawaii, (3012-3012). 28 November - 2 December 2006. doi:10.1121/1.4786573
Krzyszvzyk, E., Dunlop, R. A., Paton, D., Noad, M. J. and Goold, J. (2005). Breaching by Humpback Whales during migration off the East Coast of Australia. In: The 16th Biennial Conf. on the Biology of Marine Mammals, California, USA, (). 12-16 December 2005.
Dunlop, R. A., Noad, M. J. and Cato, D.H. (2005). Widespread and contextural use of social communication in migrating Humpback whales. In: Proceedings of The 16th Biennial Conference. on the Biology of Marine Mammals. The 16th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals, San Diego, California, USA,, (). 12-16 December, 2005.
Smith, J., Noad, M. J. and Dunlop, R. A. (2005). Male Humpback whales sing more while escorting females than with other males. In: Proceedings of The 16th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals. The 16th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals, San Diego, California, (). 12-16 December 2005.
Noad, M. J., Cato, D.H. and Dunlop, R. A. (2005). Spacing function for song in Humpback whales. In: Proceedings of The 16th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals. The 16th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals, San Diego, California, USA, (). 12-16 December, 2005.
Journal Article
Kavanagh, Ailbhe S. , Noad, Michael J. , Blomberg, Simon P. , Goldizen, Anne W. , Kniest, Eric, Cato, Douglas H. and Dunlop, Rebecca A. (2017) Factors driving the variability in diving and movement behavior of migrating humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae): implications for anthropogenic disturbance studies. Marine Mammal Science, 33 2: 413-439. doi:10.1111/mms.12375
Dunlop, Rebecca A. (2017) Potential motivational information encoded within humpback whale non-song vocal sounds. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 141 3: 2204-2213. doi:10.1121/1.4978615
Kavanagh, Ailbhe S., Owen, Kylie, Williamson, Michael J., Blomberg, Simon P., Noad, Michael J., Goldizen, Anne W., Kniest, Eric, Cato, Douglas H. and Dunlop, Rebecca A. (2017) Evidence for the functions of surface-active behaviors in humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae). Marine Mammal Science, 33 1: 313-334. doi:10.1111/mms.12374
Dunlop, Rebecca A., Noad, Michael J. and Cato, Douglas H. (2016) A spatially explicit model of the movement of humpback whales relative to a source. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, 27 1: . doi:10.1121/2.0000296
Dunlop, Rebecca A. and Noad, Michael J. (2016) The “risky” business of singing: tactical use of song during joining by male humpback whales. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 70 12: 1-12. doi:10.1007/s00265-016-2218-8
Williamson, Michael J., Kavanagh, Ailbhe S., Noad, Michael J., Kniest, Eric and Dunlop, Rebecca A. (2016) The effect of close approaches for tagging activities by small research vessels on the behavior of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae). Marine Mammal Science, 32 4: 1234-1253. doi:10.1111/mms.12324
Dunlop, Rebecca A. (2016) Changes in vocal parameters with social context in humpback whales: considering the effect of bystanders. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 70 6: 857-870. doi:10.1007/s00265-016-2108-0
Owen, Kylie, Kavanagh, Ailbhe S., Warren, Joseph, Noad, Michael J., Donnelly, David, Goldizen, Anne W. and Dunlop, Rebecca A. (2016) Potential energy gain by whales outside of the Antarctic: prey preferences and consumption rates of migrating humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae). Polar Biology, 1-13. doi:10.1007/s00300-016-1951-9
Kavanagh, Ailbhe S., Goldizen, Anne W., Blomberg Simon P., Noad, Michael J. and Dunlop, Rebecca A. (2016) Factors affecting the reliability and validity of behavioural datasets: Assessing the impact of observers' experience and native language on studies of wild animals. Aquatic Mammals, 42 1: 1-11. doi:10.1578/AM.42.1.2016.1
Dunlop, Rebecca A., Noad, Michael J., McCauley, Robert D., Kniest, Eric, Slade, Robert, Paton, David and Cato, Douglas H. (2016) Response of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) to ramp-up of a small experimental air gun array. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 103 1-2: 72-83. doi:10.1016/j.marpolbul.2015.12.044
Owen, Kylie, Dunlop, Rebecca A., Monty, Jason P., Chung, Daniel, Noad, Michael J., Donnelly, David, Goldizen, Anne W. and Mackenzie, Thomas (2016) Detecting surface-feeding behavior by rorqual whales in accelerometer data. Marine Mammal Science, 32 1: 327-348. doi:10.1111/mms.12271
Dunlop, Rebecca A. (2016) The effect of vessel noise on humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae, communication behaviour. Animal Behaviour, 111 13-21. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2015.10.002
Godwin, Elise M., Noad, Michael J., Kniest, Eric and Dunlop, Rebecca A. (2016) Comparing multiple sampling platforms for measuring the behavior of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae). Marine Mammal Science, 32 1: 268-286. doi:10.1111/mms.12262
Owen, Kylie, Warren, Joseph D., Noad, Michael J., Donnelly, David, Goldizen, Anne W. and Dunlop, Rebecca A. (2015) Effect of prey type on the fine-scale feeding behaviour of migrating east Australian humpback whales. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 541 231-244. doi:10.3354/meps11551
Rekdahl, Melinda L., Dunlop, Rebecca A., Goldizen, Anne W., Garland, Ellen C., Biassoni, Nicoletta, Miller, Patrick and Noad, Michael J. (2015) Non-song social call bouts of migrating humpback whales. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 137 6: 3042-3053. doi:10.1121/1.4921280
Dunlop, Rebecca A., Noad, Michael J., McCauley, Robert D., Kniest, Eric, Paton, David and Cato, Douglas H. (2015) The behavioural response of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) to a 20 cubic inch air gun. Aquatic Mammals, 41 4: 412-433. doi:10.1578/AM.41.4.2015.412
Dunlop, Rebecca A., Cato, Douglas H. and Noad, Michael J. (2014) Evidence of a Lombard response in migrating humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae). Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 136 1: 430-437. doi:10.1121/1.4883598
Dunlop, Rebecca A., Cato, Douglas H., Noad, Michael J. and Stokes, Dale M. (2013) Source levels of social sounds in migrating humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae). Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 134 1: 706-714. doi:10.1121/1.4807828
Dunlop, Rebecca A., Noad, Michael J., Cato, Douglas H., Kniest, Eric, Miller, Patrick J. O., Smith, Joshua N. and Stokes, M. Dale (2013) Multivariate analysis of behavioural response experiments in humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae). Journal of Experimental Biology, 216 5: 759-770. doi:10.1242/jeb.071498
Rekdahl, Melinda L., Dunlop, Rebecca A., Noad, Michael J. and Goldizen, Anne W. (2013) Temporal stability and change in the social call repertoire of migrating humpback whales. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 133 3: 1785-1795. doi:10.1121/1.4789941
Cato, Douglas H., Noad, Michael J., Dunlop, Rebecca A., McCauley, Robert D., Gales, Nicholas J., Kent, Chandra P.Salgado, Kniest, Hendrik, Paton, David, Jenner, K.Curt S., Noad, John, Maggi, Amos L., Parnum, Iain M. and Duncan, Alec J. (2013) A study of the behavioural response of whales to the noise of seismic air guns: Design, methods and progress. Acoustics Australia, 41 1: 88-97.
Owen, Kylie, Dunlop, Rebecca and Donnelly, David (2012) Seaweed interactions by humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae): a form of object play?. Aquatic Mammals, 38 4: 418-422. doi:10.1578/AM.38.4.2012.418
Noad, M. J., Dunlop, R. A., Paton, D. and Cato, D. H. (2011) Absolute and relative abundance estimates of Australian east coast humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae). Journal of Cetacean Research and Management, Special Issue 3: 243-252.
Hedley, Sharon L., Bannister, John L. and Dunlop, Rebecca A. (2011) Abundance estimates of Breeding Stock ‘D’ Humpback Whales from aerial and land-based surveys off Shark Bay, Western Australia, 2008. Journal of Cetacean Research and Management, Special Issue 3: 209-221.
Dunlop, Rebecca A., Cato, Douglas H. and Noad, Michael J. (2010) Your attention please: Increasing ambient noise levels elicits a change in communication behaviour in humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae). Proceedings of the Royal Society of London: Biological Sciences, 277 1693: 2521-2529. doi:10.1098/rspb.2009.2319
Smith, J.N., Goldizen, A. W., Dunlop, R. A. and Noad, M. J. (2008) Songs of male humpback whales, Megaptera novaeangliae, are involved in intersexual interactions. Animal Behaviour, 76 2: 467-477. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.02.013
Dunlop, R.A., Cato, D.H. and Noad, M. J. (2008) Non-song acoustic communication in migrating humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae). Marine Mammal Science, 24 3: 613-629. doi:10.1111/j.1748-7692.2008.00208.x
Dunlop, Rebecca A. and Mellor, Adam (2008) Probable acoustic recordings of sperm whales (physeter macrocephalus) along the north antrim coast, Northern Ireland. Biology and Environment, 108 3: 135-141. doi:10.3318/BIOE.2008.108.3.135
Dunlop, Rebecca A., Noad, Michael J., Cato, Douglas H. and Stokes, Dale (2007) The social vocalization repertoire of east Australian migrating humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae). The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 122 5: 2893-2905. doi:10.1121/1.2783115
Dunlop, R., Millsopp, S. and Laming, P. (2006) Avoidance learning in goldfish (Carassius auratus) and trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) and implications for Pain perception. Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 97 2-4: 255-271. doi:10.1016/j.applanim.2005.06.018
Dunlop, R. and Laming, P. (2005) Mechanoreceptive and nociceptive responses in the central nervous system of goldfish (Carassius auratus) and trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss). Journal of Pain, 6 9: 561-568. doi:10.1016/j.jpain.2005.02.010
Dunlop, R. A., Laming, P. R. and Smith, T. E. (2004) The stress of four commercial farming practices, feeding, counting, grading and harvesting, in farmed rainbow trout, oncorhynchus mykiss. Marine And Freshwater Behaviour And Physiology, 37 3: 179-192. doi:10.1080/10236240400006133
Research Report
Noad, Michael J., Dunlop, Rebecca A., Paton, David and Cato, Douglas H. (2008) An update of the east Australian humpback whale population (E1) rate of increase Santiago, Chile: International Whaling Commission Scientific Committee