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…
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.
This is really not the best time to pull long-planned power generation projects offline. It is bound to kick the US back into the “Dark Ages.
New pile-driving technologies promise to tame the unruly noise of installing shallow-water windfarms.
(Photo by David Kadlubowski) A number of our recent blogs have been orbiting around bird and whale energy perception, and how energy sources we impose on their habitats may compromise their environmental adaptations. This inquiry has ventured outside of what…
Organisms are built to handle compression – positive pressure. But decompression. or “negative barotrauma,” is another matter.
It has been long known that homing pigeons and probably many other migratory birds can hear “infrasound” – sounds at frequencies below human ability to discriminate as pitch. This is how they figure out where they are!
Cluster of whale strandings concurrent with offshore wind surveys raises some difficult issues.
