MARINE SOUND: WOC LAUNCHES INTERNATIONAL OCEAN INDUSTRY WORKING GROUP WITH B. SOUTHALL TO CO-CHAIR
Sustainable Ocean Summit Session to Initiate Global Multi-Industry Effort on the Science and Solutions to Sound in the Marine Environment 20 March 2013 The World Ocean Council’s newly formed Marine Sound Working Group is a collaborative industry forum focused on...
B. Southall to give Smithsonian webinar on SOCAL-BRS project
Webcast: Marine Mammals and Military Sonar. Brandon Southall, SEA Inc. and University of California Santa Cruz, will be presenting “Marine Mammal Responses to Simulated Military Sonar: Southern California Behavioral Response Study” on Tuesday, March 12 at noon (4 pm...
NPR story on ongoing elephant seal research
SEA’s own Caroline Casey was recently featured on NPR’s Morning Edition for her fantastic work on elephant seal acoustic behavior as part of her graduate work at UC Santa Cruz. The story is online and has some neat examples of elephant seal calls – please check it out...
New paper on integrated approaches to studying baleen whales – Ari Friedlaender on BioScience cover!
A new paper was recently published in BioScience, involving a number of SEA partners and BRS collaborators. Integrative Approaches to the Study of Baleen Whale Diving Behavior, Feeding Performance, and Foraging Ecology Jeremy A. Goldbogen, Ari S. Friedlaender, John...
NOAA Issues Cetacean and Sound Mapping Working Group Report
NOAA recently announced the release of a report from a workshop last summer on new tools for visualizing cetacean density and anthropogenic sound. The report is entitled: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. 2012. Mapping Cetaceans and Sound: Modern Tools...