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Shoals Marine Laboratory gets OK to install a 2,500-square-foot extension to the existing solar array.

Meet the team trying to restore mollusk populations with the help of underwater speakers.

Caroline Lubert has been a math professor at JMU since 1999, and she focuses her research on acoustics, the mathematical study of sound waves. In her time at the university,

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 human sounds on marine life they have planned for years. Using hydrophones, microphones that detect s...

“We’d like the word soundscape to become a lot better known. Sound is light in the oceans. It illuminates the ocean for many animals. They use it to communicate, to hunt, and can be harmed by noise at excess,” Ausubel said. He and colleagues – including specialists at St Andrews – plan to expand the hydrophone network, particularly in the southern hemisphere, to more than 500 devices. Using modelling and data collaborations with shipping companies and other ocean users, they hope to produce a global map of ocean sound within the coming years. This should reveal import...