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…
Field Report from Cook Inlet II
Category: Research
Field Report from Cook Inlet
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,…
Just words
What is this thing called “Kurtosis?”
Kurtosis could lead to a more accurate expression of the damage potential from noise exposures.
Big Data and the reassembly of reality II
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 –…
Big Data and the assembly of reality
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.
What the sea conceals
Scientific inquiry has always been characterized by reaching out into the unknown and illuminating our findings. From Galileo fixing his telescopes into the firmament and Leuwenhoek peering at the microscopic denizens in a drop of water; from the Phoenicians setting…
Report from New Orleans
I’ve just returned from a week-long conference of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) in New Orleans. The Acoustical Society has a very broad remit, serving all professionals and academics working with sound and acoustics. This intersects the fields of…
Measuring and expressing noise
The word “Noise” resides in an etymological basket along with the words “annoyance” and “obnoxious.” “Noise” is thought to have been derived from the Latin “noxia’ (to hurt or damage), and Middle English “nausea” (to quarrel). Although some etymologies reach…
What Noise Annoys an Oyster?
When the ocean noise pollution issue came up on everybody’s sonar, the main concern was about the impact of noise on whales and dolphins – what we in our industry refer to as “charismatic megafauna.” There are a number of…