Category Archives: Acoustics
Shipping noise and project CONCEAL (Chronic Ocean Noise: Cetacean Ecology and Acoustic habitat Loss)
Sound is as important to whales as vision is to us. Sound travels farther in the ocean than light does — so whales grunt, call or sing, or listen intently, and their lives depend on sending and receiving these acoustic cues reliably. They’re quite good at it. Whales and their prey have evolved these acoustic [...]
I HAVE BEEN COLLECTING WHALE POOP ALL MORNING (AND OTHER THINGS YOU COULD HAVE LIVED WITHOUT KNOWING)
Together, we’ve spent 18 years in university. We put our advanced degrees to work collecting whale poop. OUR MOTHERS ARE VERY PROUD. But we have a perfectly good reason for scooping whale poop. Our colleagues at University of Washington have pioneered methods to extract hormones from whale feces. Like a human pregnancy test that uses [...]
photo by J. Towers
