National Geographic Online has published a short article with an informative graphic on ocean noise pollution. Incentive for the article came (from among other places) the work of Christopher Clark from Cornell. His research team has been developing a passive…
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New noises from deepwater oil operations
Next week I will be at the Pan-American/Iberian meeting on acoustics in Cancún, Quintana Roo, Mexico delivering a paper on the acoustical impacts of new deepwater oil and gas exploration and production (E&P). The “scientific paper” is not really research…
Illuminating ocean noise article in Scientific American
On Friday Scientific American online published an article about ocean noise pollution research. The article covers the work of Chris Clark who has been doing some fabulous passive acoustic monitoring of Right whales in the Stellwagen Banks National Marine Sanctuary…
Boa Vista Cape Verde Stranding
I’ve just received news from ocean noise coalition member Sigi Luber about a mass stranding of Rough Toothed dolphins on Cape Verde. There seems to be over 50 that began hitting the beach last Tuesday Oct 20. Sigi sent an…
Is anyone listening out there?
We are closing in on a public comment period for the proposed Northwest Warfare Training Range Complex Environmental Impact Statement (NWTRC – EIS) The comment deadlines are October 24 for the US Navy, and October 31 for NOAA. The NWTRC…
The Northwest Warfare Training Range Complex EIS
The Northwest Warfare Training Range Complex Environmental Impact Statement (NWTRC-EIS) has been on my sonar for a while now. It seems as if the Navy would like to make the entire ocean a “warfare training range.” While I have written…
A harbinger of things to come…
Norwegian shipyard Ulstein recently delivered the first of two super seismic vessels to the geophysical company CGGVeritas. These vessels are designed to tow seismic survey airgun and streamer arrays for deepwater offshore fossil fuel exploration and are outfitted for arctic…
A ‘new’ source of data for sub-lethal noise impacts!
One of the more vexing challenges in understanding the effects of noise on marine animals has to do with assessing the “sub-lethal” impacts that compromise biological functions. These include the impacts from noises that mask or hide biologically significant signals,…
OCR on KZYX Thursday Sept. 16 @ 7 pm PST
I’ll be featured in and interview by Debra Scott from KZYX this evening. This station covers the Northern California communities of Mendocino, Willits, Ukiah, and Ft. Bragg, but you can “beam in on the web” through this Live Radio connection.…
Is the ocean really getting louder?
OCR mathematician Tom Reuterdahl and I have just finished a modeling exercise aimed at determining how loud the ocean was prior to industrial whaling. The premise of the investigation is that while some 50,000 cargo ships are now plying the…