Michael Stocker and Manolo Castellote retrieving the hydrophone moorings in Cook Inlet. Photos by Daniela Huson After a challenging couple of days on the Cook Inlet, we have successfully retrieved the four instrument moorings that we deployed in September at the commencement…
I’ve returned from Homer, Alaska where I was last week for the second phase of our Cook Inlet Seismic Survey monitoring project – sampling zooplankton in front of, and in the wake of the survey vessel…
Despite the ongoing moratorium on offshore oil leasing in the US, there are a few locations where offshore leasing remains in play: the western 2/3 of the Gulf of Mexico, the American and Canadian Arctic, and the Alaskan Cook Inlet,…
Kurtosis could lead to a more accurate expression of the damage potential from noise exposures.
I’ve been eyeing the reality horizon for some time new, wondering when the realities we live in will intersect the realities we construct. Of course this dichotomy has existed since humans began reflecting on our relationship with our surroundings –…
Data is not much more than snapshots of something we want to understand taken through a familiar lens. Of course this presupposes a few conditions: that we’ve identified a relationship we want to explore, and that the data we…
The delight in systems thinking is that it provides novel opportunities to observe interactions that would not be revealed in reductionist evaluation of data targeted at a specific hypothesis.
Typically, when we hit Washington DC, there is some pending legislation or policy reauthorization taking place. These events are usually timed to coincide with “Capitol Hill Ocean Week” (CHOW) which draws a parade of ocean conservation interests to argue and inform lawmakers and regulators about the attendant issues.
