Passive Acoustics Research Group News & Media

Coverage on Whale Research

• Maine Public Radio: On Point: In Fight Over Right Whales And Lobster Fishery, All Sides Want To Know More About Whale Activity Off Maine
• Discovery of Sound in the Sea (DOSITS) 2021 Webinar Series: Passive Acoustic Monitoring Overview: Applications for Marine Mammals and Fishes
• Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution News & Insight: Teaming up for Right Whales: WHOI-NOAA collaboration aims to protect endangered species from lethal ship strikes and noise from offshore wind construction
• The Weather Channel: Baleen Whales Expanding Their Range as Oceans Warm, New Study Shows
• NOAA Fisheries Feature Story: Baleen Whales Have Changed Their Distribution in the Western North Atlantic
• Environmental Monitor: NOAA deploys both static and dynamic audio recorders in search for North Atlantic Right Whales
• NOAA Fisheries Feature Story: Technology Helps Unlock the World of Beaked Whales
• The Guardian: "We’re watching them die": can right whales pull back from the brink?
• NOAA Live for Kids Webinar Series: "Can you hear me now? Marine Mammals and Sound with Genevieve Davis"
• NOAA Fisheries Feature Story: Listening for Right Whales in the Gulf of Maine
• Maine Public Radio: Here and Now: Scientists Use New Tech To Detect Presence Of Endangered Right Whales Off Maine's Coast
• NOAA Fisheries Feature Story: True's Beaked Whales: Secret No Longer
• The Martha's Vineyard Times: Boy, oh buoy, what a find: Chilmark 11-year-old finds and returns a research buoy
• NOAA Fisheries Feature Story: The Changing Voices of North Atlantic Right Whales
• NOAA Fisheries Feature Story: Caribbean Waters May Hold Clues to Humpback Whale Populations
• NOAA Fisheries Feature Story: Woods Hole Science Organizations Collaborate to Involve Students in Real-time Whale Research in the Caribbean
• NOAA Fisheries Feature Story: Faces of North Atlantic Right Whale Conservation: Sofie Van Parijs, Acoustic Researcher
• NOAA Fisheries Feature Story: Shifting Presence of North Atlantic Right Whales Tracked with Passive Acoustics
• Boston Globe: New study used ocean-floor listening devices to track endangered right whales
• NOAA Fisheries Feature Story: Robots Detect Whales in Real Time, Revealing Changes in Migration Patterns
• NOAA Fisheries Feature Story: Listening for Whales Helps Scientists, US Coast Guard Operations
• NOAA Fisheries Feature Story: Beaked Whale Cruise a Success Despite a Hurricane
• NOAA Fisheries Feature Story: Scientists Eavesdrop on Little-Known Beaked Whales to Learn How Deeply They Dive
• WCAI Cape and Islands NPR Station: Minke Sounds Like No Whale You've Ever Heard
• On the Line: A NOAA Fisheries Podcast: Antarctic Minke Whales, Mystery Soundmakers of the Southern Ocean
• NPR: All Things Considered, the two-way: Scientists Pinpoint Source Of Antarctic 'Quack'
• BBC: Mystery of 'ocean quack sound' solved
• Live Science: Mystery of Bizarre Duck-Like Ocean Sound Solved
• Australian Broadcasting Company: Scientists pinpoint source of 'bio-duck' sound
• Science News: Submariners' 'bio-duck' is probably a whale
• Science Magazine: ScienceShot: Mystery of Quacking Caller in Antarctic Solved
• The Independent: 50-year mystery of the ocean 'quack' finally solved by scientists
• The Guardian: Scientists solve mystery of Southern Ocean 'quacking' sound
• WHOI Report: "Saving the North Atlantic Right Whale"
• WCAI All Things Considered: "Opening Our Ears to the Ocean" Featuring Dr. Danielle Cholewiak.
• Brains on: "How do whales communicate?" Featuring Dr. Heather Heenehan.
• A word from Dr. Sofie Van Parijs: The Voice of the North Atlantic right whale.

Coverage on Fish Research

• Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution News & Insight: Listening to fish with passive acoustics: WHOI and NOAA Fisheries researchers adapt marine mammal detection technologies for fisheries management
• NOAA Fisheries Feature Story: Scientists Collecting Data on Commercial Fish Species in Wind Energy Lease Areas
• Subsea World News: NOAA Collects Data on Fish Species in Wind Energy Lease Areas
• WCAI Living Lab Radio: Fish and Ships: Unfortunately, Not a Great Combination
• NPR: the salt: Scientists, Fishing Fleet Team Up to Save Cod- By Listening
• On the Line: A NOAA Fisheries Podcast: Listening for Cod in the Gulf of Maine
• WCAI Living Live: Eavesdropping on the Private Lives of Cod
• Hingham Patch: Local Fisherman to Work With Researchers on Cod Fish Study
• WCAI Cape and Islands NPR Station Broadcast: How Acoustic Monitoring Could Help Protect Cod Stocks
• Gloucester Times: Sonar-style cod study gains State House support

Coverage on Ocean Noise Research

• NOAA News: New Passive Acoustic Monitoring Framework to Help Safeguard Marine Resources During Offshore Wind Development
• NOAA Sanctuaries News: Listening to the Ocean in the Time of COVID-19
• National Geographic: Will Atlantic Ocean Oil Prospecting Silence Endangered Right Whales?
• New York Times: A Rising Tide of Noise Is Now Easy to See
• The Take Away with Dr. Leila Hatch: Mapping Noise Pollution to Save Marine Life
• NOAA News: National Ocean Service: Underwater noise decreases whale communications in Stellwagen Bank sanctuary
• Scientific American: Noise Reduces Ocean Habitat for Whales
• WCAI Cape and Islands NPR Station Broadcast: Mindy Todd talks with Denise Risch on "Ocean Noise a Threat to Marine Mammals (mp3)
• Wired: Underwater Noise Disturbs Whales 120 miles away
• The Acoustic Ecology Institute: Fish survey sound reduce humpback songs 120 miles away?
• Gloucester Times: Report: Sonar fish study may affect whales
• NOAA Storymap: "Listening to the Sea: Using Passive Acoustic Data to Monitor Ships and Ocean Life"