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”
Category: Ocean Life
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 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…
Field report from OCEANOISE 2026 – Day 1
One of the virtues of OCEANOISE is that while it includes many academics, it also includes people in ocean policy, marine conservation, and ocean industries. So a lot of work gets done – not just through the presentations, key notes, and poster sessions, but also through the long lunches and social events that orbit around the many discussions stimulated by the programming.
Dolphin Awareness Month | A Different Way of Knowing
“If a lion could speak, we could not understand him.” Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote that in 1953. Most people read it as a philosophical puzzle. For most of the twentieth century, we treated it as one. The question we asked about…
Bright News from the Blue | What We Choose to Pay Attention to
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…
Bright News from the Blue | Continuity Beneath the Surface
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…
Seabed mining is sneaking up on us
If BOEM grants Impossible Metals a permit to harvest the nodules, it may serve as an invitation to other nations to open the gates to mining operations in the international Clarion-Clipperton Zone, where the ISA is managing the seabed deliberations.
