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Crustaceans need ears too!

Posted on September 22, 2011 by Michael Stocker

A preponderance of marine bioacoustic work has been focused on marine mammals – whales, dolphins, and pinnipeds. This is in large part due to the “charismatic megafauna” paradigm where big, complicated animals with recognizable expressions attract most human interest. While … Continue reading →

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Report from the International Quiet Ocean Experiment

Posted on September 8, 2011 by Michael Stocker

Last week I attended the “International Quiet Ocean Experiment” (IQOE) at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris. The founding premise of the meeting is a bit outrageous – that somehow all maritime nations could come together and halt all of their … Continue reading →

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The Neutrino and the Whale

Posted on December 12, 2009 by Michael Stocker

A nicely written article in the Dec. 3 2009 issue  Nature reveals how a how a neutrino detection experiment conducted in the Mediterranean Sea by nuclear physicists actually uncovered an abundance of sperm whales. The experiment involved plac

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