Studies and Scholarly Reports

COER Reports & Studies

2026: July, Impacts of Four Growler FCLP Allocation Scenarios on Oak Harbor and Coupeville

2026: April, FCLPs at Ault and Outlying Field, Historical thru Present

2026: February, COER 2nd set of Comments on Draft Comprehensive Plan Update

2026: January, COER Comments on Northwest Training & Testing Supplemental EIS

2025: July, Comments and Recommendations for Island County’s Comprehensive Plan Update & County Action

2025: May, Comments on the Draft Amended Analysis of the Growler EIS

2025: April, Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP) Update & County Action

2024: November, COER Launches Complaint Against County Health Department

2023: October, Ault Field Airspace: Can it Handle More FCLPs?

2023: October, Growler Low-Frequency Noise: Effects on Ebey’s Reserve’s Soundscape and Historical Structures

2023: September, FAA Noise Policy Review Questionnaire

2022: May, COER Critique Of Navy’s NASWI Growler Noise Monitoring Report

2022: January, Navy Charade: Misuse of Noise Annoyance Threshold

2021: August, Analysis of Noise Complainants to the Navy in 2020

2020: December, COER, Outlying Landing Field Coupeville: an Examination of Six Critical Deficiencies

2020: October, Growler Costs Analysis

2020: July, The Misleading AICUZ for NASWI

2020: February, JGL Acoustics 2019 Final Report

2019: December, Comparison of On-Site Growler Noise with Modeled Noise at Outlying Field Coupeville

2019: May, Community Says Record of Decision Went Too Far

2018: December, Fidell Comments on FEIS

2018: December, Fidell Comments on NAVY DEIS

2017: October, The White Paper: The Complete Case Against OLF Coupeville

2017: February, Invisible Costs of NASWI, An Economic Study

2016: December, 2016 National Park Service Noise Study – Ebey’s Landing

2016: February 5, JGL 2016 Noise Report (Lilly Report #2)

2013: June 11, JGL 2013 Noise Report (Lilly Report #1)

Other Reports & Studies

2025: February, Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology: A compendium of the latest studies on noise effects on health

2024: May, Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology: Population health implications of exposure to pervasive military aircraft noise pollution

2022: January, Navy Real-Time Aircraft Sound Monitoring Study: Technical Report

2021: January, Air Installations Compatible Use Zones Study for Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, Ault Field and Outlying Landing Field Coupeville

2020: November, Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, Above and below: Military Aircraft Noise in Air and under Water at Whidbey Island,Washington

2020: October, Marbled Murrelet Noise Thresholds

2020: July-August, Quiet Skies, Jet Noise Reports for San Juan County and Other Impacted Areas

2019: May 31, Impact of Military Aircraft on the Soundscape of the Olympic Peninsula

2019: March 11, Consumer Reports, The Many Health Effects of Noise

2018: October, PFAS Fact Sheets

2018: February 6, Fortune, Noise Pollution May Impact Heart Health, According to New Research

2017: October 17, NASWI Update on Water Contamination

2016: April, FAA, Exhibit I Flightpaths over Olympic National Park

2012: October 30, “Finding Of No Significant Impact (FONSI)” by Navy concerning transition to Growlers

2012: Environmental Assessment of Growler Impacts

2012: March, NWTT EIS Statement – Scoping Information Materials

2009: Navy Report on Harmful Noise

2009: Dept. of Defense Report on Sleep Disturbance from Aviation Noise

2009: Dept. of Defense Report on Community Annoyance from Aircraft Noise

2008: Interim Audit Report

2005: AICUZ Study

2005: Report to the BRAC

2000: June, UNITED STATES AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY, Subsonic Aircraft Noise At and Beneath the Ocean Surface: Estimation of Risk for Effects on Marine Mammals

Flight Paths PDF

Noise and Hearing Protection Factsheet

EPA Protective Noise Levels

Noise Map