Passive Acoustics Research Group News & Media
Our Passive Acoustics Research Group frequently makes the news. This page links to articles and other media featuring our staff and their research.
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"