By way of this semantic legerdemain they would open up the floodgates for extractive and construction industries to run roughshod over their operation areas without regulatory oversight or legal consequences.
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.
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…
New pile-driving technologies promise to tame the unruly noise of installing shallow-water windfarms.
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.
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 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.
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…
…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.’
