Package: whalestrike
Title: Simulate Whale Ship Strikes
Version: 0.6.3
Authors@R: c(
    person(given="Dan", family="Kelley", email="dan.kelley@dal.ca", role=c("aut", "cre"), comment=c(ORCID="0000-0001-7808-5911")),
    person(given="James", family="Vlasic", email="jvlasic@dal.ca", role="rtm", comment=c(ORCID="0000-0002-3846-4391")),
    person(given="Sean", family="Brilliant", email="seanb@cwf-fcf.org", role="rtm", comment=c(ORCID="0000-0001-5494-3475")),
    person(given="Alexandra", family="Mayette", email="alexandram@cwf-fcf.org", role="rtm", comment=c(ORCID="0000-0002-9766-9565")))
Maintainer: Dan Kelley <dan.kelley@dal.ca>
Description: Provides tools for simulating the biophysical effects of
        vessel-strikes on whales. The aim is to support the evaluation
        of marine policies limiting ship speeds through regions in
        which whales reside. This is important because ship strikes are
        a major source of lethality for several whale species,
        including the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale.
        In this analysis, whales are modelled with a four-layer system
        comprising skin, blubber, sub-layer (muscle or organ) and bone.
        Reasonable values for the material properties of these layers,
        along with other factors such as whale surface area and mass,
        are provided for a variety of whale species. Similarly, key
        values are provided for several ship types.  The collision is
        modelled according to Newtonian dynamics, with stresses and
        strains within the whale layers being simulated over time. The
        simulation results are analyzed in the context of whale-strike
        data, to develop a Lethality Index for the whale in the
        modelled collision.  For the underlying science, see Kelley and
        others "Assessing the Lethality of Ship Strikes on Whales Using
        Simple Biophysical Models." (2021) <doi:10.1111/mms.12745>. For
        more on the R code, see Kelley "`whalestrike`: An R package for
        simulating ship strikes on whales" (2024)
        <doi:10.21105/joss.06473>.
Depends: bslib, deSolve, R (>= 3.5.0), shiny
Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown, testthat
License: GPL (>= 3)
Encoding: UTF-8
BugReports: https://github.com/dankelley/whalestrike/issues
URL: https://dankelley.github.io/whalestrike/
LazyData: true
RoxygenNote: 7.3.2
Roxygen: list(markdown = TRUE)
BuildVignettes: true
VignetteBuilder: knitr
NeedsCompilation: no
Config/pak/sysreqs: cmake make libuv1-dev zlib1g-dev
Repository: https://dankelley.r-universe.dev
Date/Publication: 2026-03-12 14:16:37 UTC
RemoteUrl: https://github.com/dankelley/whalestrike
RemoteRef: HEAD
RemoteSha: ed043aecd2ae434f6ecaec05e13a6a7de0f1c8ca
Packaged: 2026-06-10 07:28:25 UTC; root
Author: Dan Kelley [aut, cre] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7808-5911>),
  James Vlasic [rtm] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3846-4391>),
  Sean Brilliant [rtm] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5494-3475>),
  Alexandra Mayette [rtm] (ORCID:
    <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9766-9565>)