Acoustics
Teaming up for right whales
Researchers from WHOI and NOAA combine underwater gliders with passive acoustic detection technology to help protect endangered species from lethal ship strikes and noise from offshore wind construction
Read MoreWHOI researcher dives to Challenger Deep
Ying-Tsong Lin is the 12th person in history and the first person of Asian descent to visit ocean’s deepest seafloor…
Read MorePhysical Oceanography Virtual Seminar: Inferring Mixing from Acoustic Observations of Double-Diffusive Staircases in the Arctic Ocean
Nicole Shibley, Yale Sponsored by: Physical Oceanography Department This will be held virtually. Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83756315793?pwd=amt3TitUdW5wb3pwSEpmZEdOR1RwQT09 Meeting ID: 837…
Read MoreScaling Up the Soundscape: A Multi-Scale Look at the Acoustic Cues Used by Larval Fishes
Andria Salas, WHOI Sponsored by: Biology Department
Read MoreOcean Life in a Rising Tide of Noise
Chris Clark, Cornell University Sponsored by: Biology Department
Read MoreAcoustical Oceanography with a Single Hydrophone: Propagation, Physics-Based Processing and Applications
Julien Bonnel, WHOI Sponsored by: AOP&E Department
Read MoreGirls in Science Program: bioacoustics
August 2019: Woods Hole Sea Grant has teamed up with Earthwatch Institute on the Girls in Science Fellowship. This fellowship aims to promote diversity and expose young women to a variety of marine careers in STEM. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Research Specialist Laela Sayigh is the principal investigator working with the fellows analyzing marine mammal bioacoustics data.
Read MoreBioacoustic alarms are sounding on Cape Cod
The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) and its Marine Mammal Rescue Team in Yarmouth, Mass. have responded to a record high of more than 464 marine mammals stranded on Cape Cod since January this year. Researchers at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) believe patterns from animal sound data may be the key to curbing these numbers.
Read MoreNew Technology Will Listen For Underwater Whale Traffic In An Effort To Reduce Ship Strikes
Scientists from the Benioff Ocean Initiative and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution have deployed a a hydrophone, or underwater microphone, to listen for whale traffic in the Santa Barbara Channel. They hope to use the microphone to help prevent collisions between whales and boats – which are often deadly to whales.
Underwater robots swarm the ocean
Researchers test a new, acoustic-based navigation system to solve a problem that oceanographers have grappled with for years—getting multiple underwater robots to monitor the ocean cooperatively in swarm-like fashion.
Read MoreStandard-Target Sonar-Calibration Method: The Science – and Challenges in Communicating This
Ken Foote, WHOI Sponsored by: AOP&E Department
Read MoreModeling Complex Sound Information Processing
Dominika Lyzwa, MIT Sponsored by: AOP&E Department
Read MoreA tunnel to the Twilight Zone
Scientists track hungry blue sharks as they ride swirling currents down to the ocean twilight zone—a layer of the ocean containing the largest fish biomass on Earth
Read MoreDense, Sonar-Based Reconstruction of Underwater Scenes
Pedro Vaz Teixeira, MIT Sponsored by: AOP&E Department
Read MoreThe DGA “ALMA” Project – Acoustic Laboratory for Marine Application
Gaultier Real, DGA (France) Sponsored by: AOP&E Department
Read MoreNew Initiative Launched to Help Protect New Yorks Great Whales
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The Deep-See Peers into the Depths
Decades of research from many WHOI scientists and engineers have culminated in a multifaceted vehicle to explore deep-sea marine life.
Read MoreAcoustics
High-resolution bathymetry of extinct asphalt volcanoes off the coast of California. The bathymetry was collected using the autonomous underwater vehicle Sentry.…
Read MoreAcoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP)
What is it and why do we use it? An Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler, or Acoustic Doppler Profiler, is often…
Read MoreSonar Single Beam
Echo sounding is the key method scientists use to map the seafloor today. The technique, first used by German scientists…
Read MoreMultibeam Bathymetry
Multibeam bathymetry is based on the fact that more beams are better than one. About 30 years ago, the US…
Read MoreAutonomous Hydrophone Array (AHA)
Looking for new volcanic eruptions on the global mid-ocean ridge and understanding when and where eruptions take place is one…
Read MoreGroups of Pilot Whales Have Their Own Dialects
In humans, different social groups, cities, or regions often have distinct accents and dialects. Those vocal traits are not unique to us, however. A new study from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) has found that short-finned pilot whales living off the coast of Hawai’i have their own sorts of vocal dialects, a discovery that may help researchers understand the whales’ complex social structure.
Read MoreCoral Larvae Use Sound to Find a Home on the Reef
Choosing a place to call home is one of the most consequential choices a coral can make. In the animal’s larval stage, it floats freely in the ocean, but once it settles down, it anchors itself permanently to the rocky substrate of a reef, and remains stuck there for the rest of its life. Exactly how these larvae choose a specific place to live, however, is largely unclear.
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