Dr. Brandon Southall serves on United Nations ocean acoustics panel
An international group of ocean scientists and leaders from a range of international research and environmental organizations, government agencies, and industry partners (pictured below) participated in a special session on ship noise and ship strike issues related to...
SEA Senior Scientist co-authors IUCN Best Practices Publication on Seismic Surveys
SEA Senior Scientist Dr. Brandon Southall and Dr. Doug Nowacek from Duke co-authored a new publication regarding responsible environmental practices for monitoring and mitigation of seismic airgun surveys. The document is entitled “Effective planning strategies for...
Brandon Southall to give DOSITS webinar – Wed 16 March
Members of the international regulatory community have an expressed need for training materials on underwater acoustics as well as instructional resources that can be quickly accessed and viewed. To meet this need, the Discovery of Sound in the Sea (DOSITS) Team is...
New publication on Heterogenous Prey Distribution and Beaked Whales
Along with my co-authors Kelly Benoit-Bird and Mark Moline, I would like to bring to your attention a paper recently published in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B (Biological Sciences) entitled Predator-guided sampling reveals biotic structure in the...
Marine Mammals and Noise in the Arctic
A recent media piece on noise in the Arctic was published online in Arctic Deeply. SEA Senior Scientist and close colleague Chris Clark of Cornell were among those featured in the article about the science and traditional knowledge of sound and mammal behavior in the...