Yesterday BBC News put out a feature article on ocean acoustics. I suspect that this is really making the rounds because many folks have brought it to our attention. For good reason too, as it includes some great embedded sounds, references to other useful resources, and a couple of conversations with folks in the field, such as Chris Clark with Cornell Ornithology Lab, and Michel Andre whose “Listening to Deep Ocean” we covered in a January 2011 Newsletter.
It is encouraging that ocean bioacoustics is increasingly becoming “main-stream,” particularly in light of the fact that the reach of human noise is ever saturating into further reaches of the sea – requiring all of us to be better informed about how marine animals use their acoustic habitat, and how human noise is transforming it.