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Comments Off on Quieter Oceans Offer a Rare Chance to Listen WOODS HOLE, Massachusetts, April 21, 2021 (ENS) – Coronavirus pandemic travel restrictions and economic slowdowns slammed the brakes on human activities in the oceans starting last spring and ongoing. Noise levels are down as cargo ships, cruise ships, and seafloor exploration vessels have slowed or stopped their operations. The relative silence creates a unique moment for scientists to begin a time-series study of the impacts of hu...

BBC News By Victoria Gill image copyrightAlamy image captionResearchers say evidence of the harm ocean noise pollution can do has been building for decades Ocean scientists around the world are studying the "unique moment" of quiet created by the pandemic. The researchers have called their vast listening experiment: The year of the quiet ocean. "Lockdown slowed global shipping on a scale that would otherwise be impossible," explained Prof Peter Tyack from the University of St Andrews. The sc...

Global network to eavesdrop on oceans quieted by Covid Issued on: 08/04/2021 - 17:25 Travel and economic downturns due to Covid-19 has seen falls in maritime traffic, sea floor exploration and other human interference, creating "a unique moment" to gather data on the oceans sonic landscape CLEMENT MAHOUDEAU AFP/File 3 min Paris (AFP) Scientists will take advantage of an unprecedented fall in shipping activity to listen in to the worlds oceans and stu...

SHARE The relative silence caused by the coronavirus pandemic is being used by researchers to build a listening network that could eventually create the first map of the worlds oceans. On Thursday, marine biologists unveiled a listening network to help map the oceans and study how human behaviour and noise affect marine life. As the pandemic gripped the world’s land masses, human noise in the oceans was largely silenced, with shipping, exploration and leisure operations curtailed or stopped...

The Covid-19 pandemic left the oceans quieter than ever in 2020, allowing scientists to analyze the effect human-generated sound has on marine life. This map from the IQOE-endorsed JOMOPANS project shows the difference between the total noise level and the natural noise level with differences up to 30 decibels (dB). While 30 dB on its own is not loud, the superimposition raises the level significantly higher than natural noise. (Credit: JOMOPANS) (CN) — A unique new study has taken advantage ...

International Project Will See How the Quiet of Covid-19 Affected the Oceans Share An orca chases herrings on Jan. 14, 2019 near the Norwegian northern city of Tromso. (Photo: Olivier Morin, Getty Images) To sign up for our daily newsletter covering the latest news, features and reviews, head HERE. For a running feed of all our stories, follow us on Twitter HERE. Or you can bookmark the Gizmodo Australia homepage to visit whenever you need a news fix. Between offshore oil and gas drilling, ship...

Close Antarctica is often perceived as nothing more than a lifeless barren of cold. A frozen dessert. However, not many are aware of the booming and flourishing population of Weddel seals that dominated the waters of the frozen south. There, they create a soundscape that a lot of creatures, especially humans, are unaware of. (Photo : Vassil Tzvetano on Wikimedia Commons) These pinnipeds typically emit high-pitched pings that sound like laser guns in a science-fiction movie. But that is not thei...

Print Weddell seals use a breathing hole in the frozen surface of the Ross Sea. Credit: Alasdair Turner Advertisement Above the frozen ocean, Antarctica can be eerily quiet. Gusts of wind are often all one hears. Below, though, the Southern Ocean is a living soundscape dominated by Weddell seals. These pinnipeds typically emit high-pitched pings that sound like laser guns in a science-fiction movie. But that is not their entire repertoire. Research now reveals that a significant portion of the...

Dolphin man: For 50 years, biologist has studied bottlenose dolphins from a research center on Florida’s Gulf Coast Steve Johnson, Chicago Tribune © TNS A resident Sarasota Bay dolphin leaping with suction-cup-mounted DTAG that records sounds and behavior for up to 24 hours. CHICAGO – Beginning his work in marine biology, Randy Wells thought he was a shark guy. But the teenager whose family had just moved from Peoria to Florida’s Gulf Coast volunteered to help a local r...