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…
A good man just set sail for distant shores.
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…”
Earth Day comes around again!
In my perfect world, every day would be Earth Day! But if the world was perfect, OCR would not be doing the work we do – trying to make our collective habitat better for all of us that live in…
Jerry Mander passes on
Jerry has been one of the San Francisco Bay Area’s more influential intellectuals, using his systematic thinking to flavor the region’s humanist tendencies, and questioning the many orthodoxies of our western social and economic thought.
Were New Jersey strandings associated with offshore wind surveys?
Cluster of whale strandings concurrent with offshore wind surveys raises some difficult issues.