DISALLOW seismic airgun testing off our coasts! Voices of coastal communities and marine life are being silenced!
Oceana Seismic Airgun Testing Infographic PDF
Sound is as important to whales as vision is to humans. Our scientific research (with Chris Clark and Dimitri Ponirakis at Cornell University’s Bioacoustics Research Program) is measuring how noisy or quiet important habitats are to fin, humpback and killer whales in British Columbia, Canada, and how we think that is affecting the whales’ ability to find food and each other. Joel Bellucci helped us turn our science into some nice 3D animations. Our friend, Douglas Coupland, narrates this gentle introduction to whales & ocean noise. We hope it gives you a overview of our work, and why underwater noise is worth worrying about.
To learn more about this topic, check out:
oceansinitiative.org/acoustics/
To see the original research article:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/acv.12076/abstract
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