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!
Pigeons Hear Where They Are!
Adaptive Management during the hottest week on record.
The expansion of a fossil-fueled global economy over the last century has driven an historically unprecedented growth in global prosperity, technological advancement, and improvement in life-quality for a plurality of our planet’s human inhabitants. Unfortunately this phenomenon has falsely correlated…
“The Most Dangerous Man in America” takes flight.
Regardless of how close or distant, we are all lucky that Daniel and Patricia Ellsberg have been in our lives. I was so fortunate to have intersected their circles by way of a couple of orbits – one through Patricia’s…
A good man just set sail for distant shores.
Roger Payne passed on to the Spirit World just a bit over a week ago. I honor him deeply because without his work, it is likely that I would not be here now. Neither would many whales. While this is a…
World Ocean Day 2023 – Empowering Youth
Ahoy OCR Community, The third week of May, we embarked on a thrilling odyssey through the San Francisco Bay as part of our ongoing hands-on Citizen Science Program. In honor of World Ocean Day, I am sharing both my personal experience…
Ocean Day 2023!
It is June 8 – World Ocean Day, we’ve circled the sun yet another time. and the Ocean remains…
Field Report from OceaNoise2023
I’ve just returned from attending OceanNoise2023 – a tri-annual conference on marine bioacoustics – this one in Vilanova i la Geltrú, just 30 km down the coast from Barcelona, Spain. OceaNoise is one of the bi/triennial conferences that coagulate the…
Scenes from the Acoustical Society meeting in Chicago
None of these animals are merely “response machines;” rather they all have complex, and generally delightful personalities.
Where ocean noise pollution and ocean temperature intersect.
The question remains as to whether the fossil fueled industrial denial of our global climate catastrophe will abate, or if they will change their tune to “it’s too late to do anything about…”