Acoustics
A curious robot is poised to rapidly expand reef research
WHOI scientists with the Coral Catalyst Team are leveraging a new, artificially intelligent robot to automate coral reef health assessments
Read MoreAOP&E Department Virtual Seminar: Overview of the TFO Shelf Break Acoustics Program
Ying-Tsong Lin, AOPE Sponsored by: AOP&E Department This will be held virtually. Please Join: https://whoi-edu.zoom.us/j/93873912253?pwd=Rmo0OXpTT2tJQmNsSzRVNTNwMG1Sdz09 Meeting ID: 938 7391 2253…
Read MoreFor Mark Baumgartner, Whale Safe is the natural evolution of WHOI’s work with passive acoustics
Mark Baumgartner is a senior scientist and marine ecologist in the biology department at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, who focuses…
Read MoreAOP&E Department Virtual Seminar: An Analysis of Impact Pile Driving Signals and Fin Whale Vocalizations at the Block Island Wind Farm Site
Jennifer Amaral, Marine Acoustics, Inc. Sponsored by: AOP&E Department This will be held virtually. Please Join: https://whoi-edu.zoom.us/j/93873912253?pwd=Rmo0OXpTT2tJQmNsSzRVNTNwMG1Sdz09Meeting ID: 938 7391…
Read MoreAOP&E Department Virtual Seminar: Echoes from the interior: An Acoustic Scattering Model for Oceanic Stratification Structure
Elizabeth Weidner, UNH Sponsored by: AOP&E Department This will be held virtually. Please Join: https://whoi-edu.zoom.us/j/93873912253?pwd=Rmo0OXpTT2tJQmNsSzRVNTNwMG1Sdz09 Meeting ID: 938 7391 2253…
Read MoreMeasuring the great migration
A bioacoustic mooring will use sound to help estimate life migrating in the ocean’s twilight zone as part of a new long-term observation network in the Atlantic
Read MoreDoctoral Dissertation Defense of Thesis: The Effect of Attenuation from Fish on Long-Range Active and Passive Acoustic Sensing in the Ocean
Daniel Duane, MIT-WHOI Joint Program Sponsored by: Academic Programs Office This will be held virtually. Join Zoom meeting: https://mit.zoom.us/j/97646770849
Read MoreAOP&E Department Virtual Seminar: Transparent Message Transport Over Acoustic and Low-Throughput RF Links with ros_acomms
Dennis Giaya, WHOI Sponsored by: AOP&E Department This will be held virtually. Join Zoom meeting:https://whoi-edu.zoom.us/j/93873912253?pwd=Rmo0OXpTT2tJQmNsSzRVNTNwMG1Sdz09 Meeting ID: 938 7391 2253…
Read MoreWHOI breaks in new research facility with MURAL Hack-A-Thon
Engineers use test tanks and 3D printers to prototype an acoustic sensor in the new Quissett Research Facility
Read MoreAOP&E Department Virtual Seminar: Multi-Path Penalty Metric in Underwater Acoustic Communication for Autonomy and Human Decision-Making
Bradli Howard, WHOI Sponsored by: AOP&E Department This will be held virtually. Join Zoom Meeting: https://whoi-edu.zoom.us/j/93873912253?pwd=Rmo0OXpTT2tJQmNsSzRVNTNwMG1Sdz09 Meeting ID: 938 7391…
Read MoreDoctoral Dissertation Defense of Thesis: Ambient Acoustics as Indicator of Environmental Change in the Beaufort Sea: Experiments & Methods for Analysis
Rui Chen, MIT-WHOI Joint Program Sponsored by: Academic Programs Office To register, use this URL: https://mit.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwlcuCsrD8oHt05yCu24PBW3sKSq2yvuTep
Read MoreAOP&E Department Virtual Seminar: Long-Range Propagation of Acoustic and Gravity Waves
Tiago Oliveira, University of Aveiro, Portugal Sponsored by: AOP&E Department This will be held virtually. Please Join: https://whoi-edu.zoom.us/j/93873912253?pwd=Rmo0OXpTT2tJQmNsSzRVNTNwMG1Sdz09 Meeting ID:…
Read MoreAOP&E Department Virtual Seminar: Underwater Sound Reflection and Diffraction Around Block Island
Ying-Tsong Lin, WHOI Sponsored by: AOP&E Department This will be held virtually. Please Join: https://whoi-edu.zoom.us/j/93873912253?pwd=Rmo0OXpTT2tJQmNsSzRVNTNwMG1Sdz09 Meeting ID: 938 7391 2253 Passcode:…
Read MoreHumpback whale songs provide insight to population changes
Following reports of unusually low whale numbers that began in 2015-16, researchers at the University of Hawaii in collaboration with the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary, Oceanwide Science Institute and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, examined song chorusing recorded through long-term passive acoustic monitoring at six sites off Maui.
Sea Ahead
The game-changing technologies that will transform our ability to understand and manage Earth’s last great frontier. Monitoring instruments—and ocean technologies in general—have come a long way. We now have Artificial Intelligence (AI)-enabled robots that not only allow researchers to access the most remote spots in the ocean, but can decide where to explore once they get there.
Acoustics of the deep sea tell us about biodiversity
Some researchers are working to improve current listening technology. At the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, Ying-Tsong Lin is building a starfish-shaped contraption of hydrophones that can tune into certain sounds hundreds of miles away, like a telescope for sound.
Could listening to the deep sea help save it?
A recent New York Times article about sound in the deep ocean briefly mentions the work by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) acoustic scientist Ying-Tsong “YT” Lin and his work developing an “acoustic telescope.”
Read MoreCould Listening to the Deep Help Save it?
Some researchers are working to improve listening technology. At WHOI, Ying-Tsong Lin is building a starfish-shaped contraption of hydrophones that can tune into certain sounds hundreds of miles away, like a telescope for sound.
NOAA Live! Webinar: Ping! – Using Sound to Map Alaska’s Seafloor
Jessica Murphy and LTjg Michelle Levano, NOAA’s Office of Coast Survey, WA Sponsored by: NOAA and Woods Hole Sea Grant…
Read MoreFor Mark Baumgartner, Whale Safe is the natural evolution of WHOI’s work with passive acoustics
Mark Baumgartner is an expert ocean listener who’s research is providing the groundwork for a new system to reduce ship collisions with whales
Read MoreWHOI Collaborates on Ocean Detection System to Help Reverse Whale ‘Roadkill’
WHOI and collaborators launched Whale Safe, a detection system that may help prevent large ship collisions with the ocean’s behemoths along the California coast.
Read MoreNew Technology Can Save the Whales from Ship Collisions
In a bid to reduce the number of whale deaths, researchers Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and collaborators worked together to develop Whale Safe, a new detection system provides mariners with up to date information about whales present in shipping lanes.
Listening to fish with passive acoustics
Scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and NOAA Fisheries combine forces to adapt technologies used to detect marine mammals for fisheries management.
Read MoreA puffin study may encourage us to be more mindful of our “sound footprint”
Though they make their homes among the raucous cliffs framing the Atlantic, puffin are still sensitive to the activities of humans. WHOI biologist Aran Mooney explains why being conscious of our sound footprints might help with their conservation
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