Where do we go from here?
Getting everyone on the same page
I realized that if we were going to come up with clear regulatory guidelines (why we did this exercise), we would all need to be fishing in the same metrics pond.
Industrial pollution, Noise Pollution, Standards, Underwater Communication, Underwater Internet of Things
Information only when needed
If this approach was employed in the Underwater Internet of Things – establishing communication channels predicated on unique frequency-shift sequences specific to the particular communication channels, it might go far in allaying our concerns about turning the entire ocean into a digital-communications mosh pit.
Bioacoustics, Data Processing, Metrics, Noise Pollution, Ocean Life, Underwater Communication, Underwater Internet of Things
Underwater Internet of Things starting to sneak up on us.
Under the auspices of the International Standards Organization (ISO), we’re working on the “Underwater Internet of Things” (UIoT). Our task is to make sure that it wreaks the least amount of havoc on marine life.
Now we’re getting somewhere! (v.2.0)
New pile-driving technologies promise to tame the unruly noise of installing shallow-water windfarms.
Now we’re getting somewhere!
While the ocean is 10 times louder now than it was just 50 years ago, a new propeller design promises to roll the noise back. This will make a huge quality difference for the ocean’s inhabitants.
Dismantling the Administrative State
A “legal coup” has just occurred in the US. If we do not act strongly, July 4 2024 may be the last Independence Day we’ll see in a while.
NOAA Fisheries 2024 “Acoustical Guidance” review.
Proposed “updates” of federal documents are required every five years to make sure the regulations reflect the ‘best available science.’ Predictably the 2024 “Updates” remain at least a decade behind the “best available science…”
Whale-Ship strikes expanded
Wading into a thicket of informed speculation here; the distinction between the ship-strikes and cuts are likely due to how the various animals dwell in their respective habitats, and how they respond to threats.