About the Authors

Ilse Van Opzeeland

ilse.van.opzeeland@awi.de

Affiliation Ocean Acoustics Lab, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany

Sofie Van Parijs

Affiliation Northeast Fisheries Science Center, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, United States of America

Lars Kindermann

Affiliation Ocean Acoustics Lab, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany

Elke Burkhardt

Affiliation Ocean Acoustics Lab, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany

Olaf Boebel

Affiliation Ocean Acoustics Lab, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have the following interest. The design and implementation of the PALAOA observatory was partly funded by the Bremerhavener Gesellschaft für Innovationsförderung und Stadtentwicklung (BIS). There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IVO SVP OB. Performed the experiments: IVO OB. Analyzed the data: IVO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EB LK. Wrote the paper: IVO SVP OB.