Category: Bioacoustics

The many dimensions of Infrasound

The term “Infrasound” is a bit of an anthropocentric misnomer; it refers to sound frequencies below human ability to auditorily distinguish. This doesn’t mean that humans can’t perceive infrasound, it’s just that distinct sounds below a certain frequency may be sensed as beats or flutters.

Talking to whales

Is AI really up to speaking whale? “Artificial Intelligence” is is the shiny new toy that synthesizes gargantuan amounts of data and spits out the most likely condensation. For it to work, one needs to start with understanding…

Pigeons Hear Where They Are!

It has been long known that homing pigeons and probably many other migratory birds can hear “infrasound” – sounds at frequencies below human ability to discriminate as pitch. This is how they figure out where they are!

Adaptive Management during the hottest week on record.

The expansion of a fossil-fueled global economy over the last century has driven an historically unprecedented growth in global prosperity, technological advancement, and improvement in life-quality for a plurality of our planet’s human inhabitants. Unfortunately this phenomenon has falsely correlated…

Field Report from OceaNoise2023

I’ve just returned from attending OceanNoise2023 – a tri-annual conference on marine bioacoustics – this one in Vilanova i la Geltrú, just 30 km down the coast from Barcelona, Spain. OceaNoise is one of the bi/triennial conferences that coagulate the…