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…
Tag: ocean noise
Making the ocean even smarter II
A Big new source of noise in the sea…
Wind farms on the horizon
A (not so sad) report from Washington DC
The enigma of the one-tooth unicorn
For a creature that figures so well into European mythology, the Narwhal carries with it surprisingly few myths of its own. As its Linnaean taxonomic binomial infers, Monodon Monoceros (one tooth, one horn) the narwhal was described by Europeans as…
Workshop on Ocean Noise Science, Regulations, and Practice
I’m just synthesizing the conversations, data, and information presented at a workshop co-sponsored by the California Gray Whale Coalition and Ocean Conservation Research at the Oakland offices of the Center for Biological Diversity on Monday, April 11. The purpose of…
Report from Washington D.C.
Cuttlefish hearing – in living color
Noise Awareness Day gets wet
Today, April 25 2013 is “International Noise Awareness Day.” Founded in 1996 by the Center for Hearing and Communication it was designed to promote awareness of the dangers of long-term exposure to noise – in humans. 1996 was really just…