I’ve just submitted our comments to the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) Supplemental Draft Environmental Impacts Statement (SDEIS) on the impacts of Oil and Gas operations in the Arctic. This is a “Supplemental” DEIS because it is built on a…
A foot in the door on seismic airgun surveys
On Friday a group of conservation interests lead by NRDC’s Michael Jasney landed a milestone decision on airgun survey regulation in the Gulf of Mexico. Seismic airgun survey – used to find oil and gas deposits are the one of…
Healthy Ocean = Sustainable Planet panel discussion
On Thursday June 13 I will be joining Ocean Conservancy’s Julia Roberson and fisheries conservationist Ken Hinman in a panel discussion moderated by Mark Spalding, President of the Ocean Foundation. The discussion will be available as a webcast at 4…
The Measure of Things
Quite a few years back we committed to assemble a compendium of “auditory thresholds” or hearing sensitivities of fish and marine mammals. The objective was to plot data from each family – fish, pinnepeds, dolphins, and porpoises on their own respective…
Porpoise Hearing Thresholds
Dolphin Hearing Thresholds
Pinnepeds Hearing Thresholds
Fish Hearing Thresholds
Arctic Soundscapes now on line!
After a pile of coding, and some deep generosity from World Wildlife Fund (WWF), Chris Clark’s lab at Cornell, and the Macaulay Library we are finally launching our Arctic Soundscapes feature on the “Don’t be a Buckethead” website. We launched…