Pages from the Ocean’s Story Much of what we know about the ocean begins with a signal. A whale’s call moving through dark water. A life form thriving where sunlight never reaches. A legal protection that holds — because people…
Welcome back to Bright News from the Blue. In times of fracture—when change outpaces adaptation—our attention returns to systems that have long navigated complexity without collapse. Across deep time, the ocean endures through evolutionary intelligence, shaped by coexistence and continuity rather than extraction and…
I suspect this will really open up our understanding of the culture of fishes, much like video drones have really advanced our understanding of how whales and dolphins play with each other (substantiating my hypothesis that “play is the universal language.”)
By way of this semantic legerdemain they would open up the floodgates for extractive and construction industries to run roughshod over their operation areas without regulatory oversight or legal consequences.
We’ve arrived at an odd inflection point that has arisen now that National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is on the DOGE chopping block.
Needlefish at night – photo Umeed Mistry Our last newsletter was an overview of the phenomenology of the sound perception of fishes in the context of lab-produced auditory threshold testing – revealing that measuring the acoustical sensitivities of fishes in…
Fishes can “hear” their surroundings though their bodies – sensing where they are. Are they “aware” of this? Perhaps no more than we are “aware” of seeing through our eyes.
Most of the auditory threshold research on fishes has assumed that they use sound much as mammals do. We found this assumption to be somewhat out in the weeds…
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.
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.