This week a “super pod” of dolphins was captured (on video) in Monterey Bay. Large aggregations of dolphins occur and are occasionally witnessed when they are in coastal waters amongst vessel traffic.
Superpods!
Tag: environment
Fish Ears 3 – Acoustical Daylight
Needlefish at night – photo Umeed Mistry Our last newsletter was an overview of the phenomenology of the sound perception of fishes in the context of lab-produced auditory threshold testing – revealing that measuring the acoustical sensitivities of fishes in…
Now we’re getting somewhere! (v.2.0)
New pile-driving technologies promise to tame the unruly noise of installing shallow-water windfarms.
Now we’re getting somewhere!
While the ocean is 10 times louder now than it was just 50 years ago, a new propeller design promises to roll the noise back. This will make a huge quality difference for the ocean’s inhabitants.
2023 Year End Progress Report
As the New Year approaches, it is common to wonder “where did the year go?” But for OCR, oddly, this previous year was thick enough to give us a sense of continuity in transitions, accomplishments, and events.
The many dimensions of Infrasound
The term “Infrasound” is a bit of an anthropocentric misnomer; it refers to sound frequencies below human ability to auditorily distinguish. This doesn’t mean that humans can’t perceive infrasound, it’s just that distinct sounds below a certain frequency may be sensed as beats or flutters.
Talking to whales
Is AI really up to speaking whale? “Artificial Intelligence” is is the shiny new toy that synthesizes gargantuan amounts of data and spits out the most likely condensation. For it to work, one needs to start with understanding…
Shell game of the Oilmen
…I suspect the oil industry is getting anxious that at some point their stock value may soon hinge on their productivity, and not on their reserve ‘speculations.’
Birds “hear” the weather.
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…