We are grateful to Navy personnel Chip Johnson
(U.S. Pacific Fleet Environmental Office),
Jessica Bredvik (Naval Facilities Engineering
Command [NAVFAC] Southwest), and Sean
Hanser and Robert Uyeyama (NAVFAC Pacific)
for their support, coordination, and facilitation
in implementing these marine mammal and
sea turtle aerial monitoring surveys and this manuscript
preparation. We thank Jay Barlow (SWFSC
NMFS) for providing sighting information. Thanks
to field personnel—Mark Deakos, Bernd Würsig,
Joe Mobley, Tom Norris, and Roxann Merizan.
A special thanks to our excellent and safe Aspen
pilots—Barry Hanson, Kathleen Veatch, Nate
Carillo, and Isaac Ufford—and Aspen’s manager,
Rick Throckmorton. We thank Jenelle Black for
her GIS support and Kathryn Christiansen for
literature research. Thanks also to Chip Johnson
and Dagmar Fertl for providing helpful comments
on the manuscript. Photographs were taken under
NMFS Permits 14451 and 15369.