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.”)
Marine animal bodies are close to the density of water, so unlike airborne sound that bounces off the bodies of terrestrial animals, water-borne sound can pass right through – opening up the question; do marine animals have ways of hearing through their bodies?
Last week I participated in a North Atlantic Right Whale (NARW) Vessel Strike risk reduction workshop. This issue is really big, because the population of these iconic whales has been falling precipitously in the past few years due to…
As the New Year approaches, it is common to wonder “where did the year go?” But for OCR, oddly, this previous year was thick enough to give us a sense of continuity in transitions, accomplishments, and events.
None of these animals are merely “response machines;” rather they all have complex, and generally delightful personalities.
I hardly got my feet on the ground from our Alaska project before heading to San Diego, the land of calm seas and Scripps Institute of Oceanography. The incentive was the 178th meeting of the Acoustical Society, along with the…
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,…
