Our “public” information tools are interfering with policy.
Author: mstocker
Regulatory variation on the gaslighting theme.
Gaslighting has become one of the main staples of the current US Executive Administration. If you lie enough, people who begin to believe it start questions their own sanity
They’re going to do it anyway…
This Administration’s issuing a Draft EIS is just window dressing. They are just going to do whatever their funders want them to do anyway.
International definitions of “Hearing” and “Sounding”
As the ocean is an acoustical environment – and home to over 2 million species, it stands to reason that there are scads of biological adaptations to producing and perceiving acoustical energy.
International definitions of “Hearing” and “Sounding”
I realized that if I was going to contribute to the regulatory discussion about ocean noise impacts, that scientists, regulators, the Navy, conservationists, and industry would need to be drinking out of the same tap
Proposed seabed mining off the Virginia coast
The current administration is proposing yet another reckless way of grinding up our planet and turning it into money. As I perused the 1600+ comments submitted by the public, businesses, and organizations, and it doesn’t seem like anybody thinks this is a good idea.
Field Report from OCEANOISE 2026 – Day 4
. Coral reef recordings are being used to encourage reef animals to recruit into compromised reef areas, and elephant seals fitted with sound recorders are diving down and bringing back soundscape recordings from 1000 meters deep
Field Report from OCEANOISE 2026 Day 3
It was on the third day of the OCEANOISE conference that things started to gel. The themes and loose ends of the previous days began convening on the session topics – which were “Riverine and Coastal,” “Management and Policy,” and “Seismic.” Like water, all of the so many different ideas and flavors began flowing together.
Field Report from OCEANOISE 2026 Day 2
Zooplankton Mandala Day two of the OCEANOISE-2026 conference was every bit as rich as Day 1. The “sessions” were “Polar,” “Sensitivity and Pathology,” and “Behavior.” “Polar” largely examined the complex assumptions we make about things like masking, and the limits…
OCEANOISE 2026 – an odd side-meeting
I “laid an egg” (intentionally) by stating that 40% of the ships at sea are transporting fossil fuel, so the most direct way of accomplishing the stated goal would be to use less fossil fuel.