{"id":1260,"date":"2016-02-22T21:49:39","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T21:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/bioacoustics\/?p=1260"},"modified":"2016-02-22T21:49:39","modified_gmt":"2016-02-22T21:49:39","slug":"adrift-in-a-sea-of-noise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/bioacoustics\/2016\/02\/22\/adrift-in-a-sea-of-noise\/","title":{"rendered":"Adrift in a sea of noise"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ll be talking about my research on the radio this Sunday (2\/28\/16) at 1900 PST \u00a0\u2013 stream the show online at http:\/\/kbvr.com\/listen<\/a>!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Repost from:\u00a0Inspiration Dissemination Inspiring Stories From Oregon State Graduate Students on KBVR FM<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cImagine walking around your neighborhood in a dense fog as night settles in; you may be familiar with the layout, but everything seems different. Innocuous obstacles like low-hanging tree branches and broken sidewalks become invisible\u00a0right until\u00a0you stumble upon them. You must be extra vigilant in order to avoid blindly injuring yourself as visibility drops.<\/p>\n

For many humans, sight is our most valuable sense, but for marine mammals like dolphins, whales, and seals, their hearing is most precious. As sound travels better through water than air<\/a>, the ocean is already a noisy place with atmospheric\u00a0activity and other animals passing around, but their senses have had millions of years to evolve in such an environment. Unfortunately, because of an increased human presence in the ocean, like a fog bank rolling in,\u00a0the ocean is getting noisier<\/a>\u00a0and putting these already threatened animals in danger.<\/p>\n

\"Samara<\/a><\/p>\n

Samara Haver<\/a>, a Masters student of Holger Klinck<\/a> in Wildlife Science is interested in knowing about how the noise is affecting marine life. To do this, she must first characterize the ocean soundscape with hydrophones (pictured right) situated in various parts of the globe<\/a>. With these data, she hopes to understand how loud the ocean is, how much noisier it\u2019s getting, and where the noise is coming from. Tune in on Sunday, February 28th at 7PM PST on 88.7 FM<\/strong> in Corvallis or stream us online at http:\/\/kbvr.com\/listen<\/a> to hear Samara\u2019s journey into the sounds of science.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n