ocean acoustics
Ensuring that coral reefs sound like home
What does a coral reef sound like? The answer is more important than you might think. By playing the sounds of a healthy reef over a loudspeaker, scientists were able to attract a variety of baby fish to settle on a degraded reef, results which show how acoustic interventions are a tool that can be […]
One person’s noise, is another person’s data
Measuring the heat content of deep ocean waters is critical to understanding how our global climate system works. It is also very difficult to do on a large scale. A group at the University of Georgia recently proposed a new technique to take the temperature of the deep ocean using only ambient noise and passive […]
Ringing in the New Year
Join us as we “Ring in the New Year” with a series of posts about sound in the ocean. Learn about the neat things sound does in the sea and how scientists use it to learn about all kinds of interesting phenomena. Eric OrensteinEric is a PhD student at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. His […]
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