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Clark, C. W., and G. C. Gagnon, 2004. Low-frequency vocal behaviors of baleen whales in the North Atlantic: Insights from IUSS detections, locations and tracking from 1992 to 1996. J. Underwater Acoust. (USN), 52(3).

Kraus, S., M. W. Brown, H. Caswell, C. W. Clark, M. Fujiwara, P. K. Hamilton, R. D. Kenney, A. R. Knowlton, S. Landry, C. A. Mayo, W. A. McLellan, M. J. Moore, D. P. Nowacek, D. A. Pabst, A. J. Read and R. M. Rolland. 2005.
North Atlantic right whales in crisis. Science 309: 561-562.

Parks, S. E., P. K.Hamilton, S. D. Kraus, and P. L. Tyack. 2005.
The gunshot sound produced by male North Atlantic right whales (Eubalaena glacialis) and its potential function in reproductive advertisement. Marine Mammal Science, 21: 458-475.

Darling, J, and R. S. Sousa-Lima, 2005.
Songs indicate interactions between humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) populations in the western and eastern South Atlantic ocean. Marine Mammal Science, 21(3): 557-566.

Mellinger, D. K. and Clark, C. W. 2003.
Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus) sounds from the North Atlantic. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 114: 1108-1119.

Clark, C. W., R. Charif, P. Loveday and M. Tasker. 2003.
Seasonal occurrences of blue, fin, humpback and minke whales in the eastern north Atlantic based on passive acoustic monitoring. 17th Conference of the European Cetacean Society. Gran Canaria. Abstract, p37.
 
Croll, D. A., C. W. Clark, A. Acevedo, B. Tershy, S. Flores, J. Gedamke, J. Urban. 2002.
Only male fin whales sing loud songs. Nature (417): 809.

Charif, R. A., D. K. Mellinger, K. J. Dunsmore, K. M. Fristrup, and C. W. Clark. 2002.
Estimated source levels of fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus) vocalizations: adjustments for surface interference. Marine Mammal Science 18 (1): 81-98.

C. W. Clark, J. F. Borsani, and G. Notarbartolo-di-Sciara. 2002.
Vocal activity of fin whales, Balaenoptera physalus, in the Ligurian Sea. Marine Mammal Science 18(1): 286-294.

Fristrup, K. M. and G. R. Harbison. 2002.
How do sperm whales catch squids? Marine Mammal Science 18(1): 42-54.

Clark, C. W., and W. T. Ellison. 2002.
Potential use of low-frequency sounds by baleen whales for probing the environment: evidence from models and empirical measurements. In: Echolocation in Bats and Dolphins (J. Thomas, C. Moss and M. Vater, eds.). The University of Chicago Press.

Mellinger, D. K., C. Carson, and C. W.Clark. 2000.
Characteristics of minke whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) pulse trains recorded near Puerto Rico. Marine Mammal Science 16: 739-756.

Clark, C. W., Croll, D. A., Acevado, and Urban-Ramirez. 2000.
Multi-modal surveys of fin whales in the Sea of Cortez, Mexico. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 108 (5, part2): 2539.

Tyack, P. L., and C. W. Clark. 2000.
Communication and acoustical behavior in dolphins and whales. Pp. 156-224, in Hearing by Whales and Dolphins. Springer Handbook of Auditory Research (W. W. L. Au, A. N. Popper, and R. R. Fay, eds.). Springer-Verlag, New York, 485 pp.

Bass, A. H. and C. W. Clark. 2002.
The physical acoustics of underwater sound communication. Pp. 15-64, in Springer Handbook of Auditory Research (A. M. Simmons, A. Popper and R. R. Fay, eds.). Springer-Verlag, New York.

Ljungblad, D. K. and Clark, C. W. 1998.
Unique calls of the pygmy blue whale recorded off the coast of Chili in Dec 1997 and Jan 1998 during the SOWER 1997/98 program. Rep. int. Whal. Commn. 49:

Ljungblad, D. K., Clark, C. W. and Shimada, H. 1998.
A comparison of sounds attributed to pygmy blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus brevicauda) recorded south of the Madagascar Plateau and those attributed to ‘True” blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus) recorded off Antarctica. Rep. int. Whal. Commn. 49: 439-442.

Clark, C. W., and W. T. Ellison. 1997.
Low-frequency signaling behavior in mysticete whales.  J. Acoust. Soc. Am 101(5): 3163.

Frankel, A. S. 1996.
Inter-individual variation in the songs of humpback whales. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 99(4): 2556.

Clark, C. W. and W. T. Ellison. 1993.
Bioacoustics of baleen whales; from infrasonics to complex songs. J. Acoust. Soc of Am., 94(3): 1830.