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CRP Acoustic Monitoring Study Outline Sound Source Verification Prepared by: JASCO Applied Sciences (Australia) Pty Ltd. Brisbane Technology Park PO Box 4037 Eight Mile Plains, Qld 4113 Australia Tel: +61 7 3147 8286 Fax: +61 7 3147 8001 http://www.jasco.com Submitted to: Ray Wood Chatham Rock Phosphate Ltd. PO Box 231, Takaka 7142, New Zealand 18 October 2014 CRP Acoustic Monitoring Study Outline 18 October 2014 Contents 1. INTRODUCTION ...................................................................................................................................... 1 1.1. Proposal Contact Information...................................................................................................... 1 1.2. Background and Project Description ........................................................................................... 1 1.3. Project Experience ...................................................................................................................... 1 2. TECHNICAL AND SCOPE PROPOSAL ....................................................................................................... 2 2.1. Background ................................................................................................................................. 2 2.2. Program Design Considerations ................................................................................................. 2 2.3. Recording Instrumentation and hydrophones ............................................................................. 3 2.3.1. Recording Instruments and Configuration ....................................................................... 3 2.3.2. Recording Depths and Locations ..................................................................................... 4 2.3.3. Mooring Design Considerations ....................................................................................... 4 2.3.4. Proposed Mooring Designs .............................................................................................. 6 2.3.5. Sample Rates and Recorded Bandwidth ......................................................................... 8 2.3.6. Sound Source Characterisation Data Collection ............................................................. 9 2.4. Data Analysis and Presentation .................................................................................................. 9 2.4.1. Sound Source Characterization Data Analysis ................................................................ 9 2.5. Sound Speed Profile Measurements ........................................................................................ 11 3. HEALTH, SAFETY, AND ENVIRONMENT .................................................................................................. 12 3.1.1. HSE Program and Management System ....................................................................... 12 4. MANAGEMENT ..................................................................................................................................... 14 4.1. Project Team ............................................................................................................................. 14 4.1.1. Project Manager/Field Lead –Craig McPherson ............................................................ 14 4.1.2. Primary Investigator – Bruce Martin............................................................................... 14 4.1.3. Project Scientist - HSE Manager – Eric Lumsden ......................................................... 14 4.1.4. Project Scientist - Field Team / Lead Analyst – Jeff MacDonnell .................................. 15 4.1.5. Scientific Review – David Zeddies ................................................................................. 15 4.1.6. Quality Assurance – Bruce Stuart .................................................................................. 15 4.2. Project Organisation Chart ........................................................................................................ 16 5. QUALITY AND MONITORING .................................................................................................................. 16 5.1. Goals ......................................................................................................................................... 16 5.2. Software Quality ........................................................................................................................ 16 5.3. Hardware Quality ...................................................................................................................... 17 5.4. Managing Project Quality Assurance ........................................................................................ 17 5.5. Quality Organisation .................................................................................................................. 17 5.5.1. JASCO Project Director and CEO Scott Carr: ............................................................... 17 5.5.2. JASCO Project QA ......................................................................................................... 17 5.5.3. Project Manager / Primary Investigator.......................................................................... 18 5.5.4. Scientific Review ............................................................................................................ 18 5.5.5. Project Team .................................................................................................................. 18 6. DELIVERABLES .................................................................................................................................... 18 7. ASSUMPTIONS ..................................................................................................................................... 18 APPENDIX A. REFERENCE PROJECTS..................................................................................................... A-1 APPENDIX B. AMAR CAPABILITY .......................................................................................................... B-3 Commercial In Confidence. Disclosure to third parties without JASCO’s written permission is prohibited. i CRP Acoustic Monitoring Study Outline 18 October 2014 1. Introduction JASCO Applied Sciences Australia Pty Ltd (JASCO) is pleased to provide this technical proposal to Chatham Rock Phosphate (CRP) for the verification of underwater noise fields associated with the dredging operations the Chatham Rise. The Sound Source Verification (SSV) recording program primarily aims to provide calibrated noise level measurements of the dredging operation at three recording locations. 1.1. Proposal Contact Information For additional information or questions regarding this proposal or JASCO Applied Sciences, please contact: Craig McPherson Australian Operations Manager, Acoustics Mobile: +61 438 128 179 [email protected] 1.2. Background and Project Description Underwater noise has been identified as a potential environmental disturbance from the CRP dredging operations. CRP previously commissioned JASCO to conduct underwater sound modelling: McPherson, C., J. Wladichuk, and A. Schlesinger. 2014. Chatham Rock Phosphate Underwater Acoustic Modelling. JASCO Document 00874, Version 1.0. Technical report by JASCO Applied Sciences for Chatham Rock Phosphate. CRP is seeking to verify the underwater noise footprint of the dredge operations in order to understand the extent of any potential impact and manage the risk accordingly. Under this proposal, JASCO offers to provide: 1.) Equipment preparations: perform engineering design and configuration of oceanographic moorings and acoustic recorders, and deliver the equipment to a support vessel operating out of Christchurch, 2.) experienced field personnel for two field trips: deployment and retrieval of the SSV moorings, and 3.) scientific data analysis and reporting work to calculate and document the metrics required to characterise the operational noise footprint from the operation. 1.3. Project Experience JASCO has conducted extensive recording programs globally, our experience includes: 1. Shell Greenland Acoustic Monitoring Program: JASCO deployed vertical arrays of hydrophones at 3 locations near Baffin Bay during Shell’s 3-D seismic survey in 2012. This data has been analyzed and reported on to Shell and subsequently to the regulatory authorities. Five recorders were deployed for Shell in Baffin Bay during the 2013 shallow-hazards survey, while two recorders were deployed overwinter from Oct 2013 – Sept 2014. The results from the 5 summer 2013 recorders have been analyzed and provided to Shell, while the overwinter data is being analyzed now. 2. The Chukchi Sea Environmental Studies Program: JASCO has deployed between 24-44 recorders in the Chukchi Sea every year since 2007, and 5-16 overwinter recorders over the same time frame. Commercial In Confidence. Disclosure to third parties without JASCO’s written permission is prohibited. 1 CRP Acoustic Monitoring Study Outline 18 October 2014 3. Chukchi and Beaufort Sea SSV’s: JASCO has conducted over 10 SSV programs in water depths from 5 to 2000 m for Shell, Statoil, BP, ConocoPhillips, GXT, Chevron, Devon and TGS in Canada, the United States, Europe, the Caribbean and Asia. Our experience with calibrated SSVs is unparalleled and our systems and data analysis software are highly-developed and refined. 4. JASCO’s AMAR acoustic recorders are the most extensively deployed and tested calibrated