Australian navy divers have suffered minor injuries from a sonar pulse by a Chinese navy vessel. Here’s what that means and how underwater sound can hurt divers.
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Arctic cod are key prey for seals, whales and seabirds. What happens when ship noise drives them away?
Geophysicists use sound waves to build a picture of the magma and rock beneath this active volcano, most of which is underwater. It’s like CT scanning the Earth.
Data from hydrophones in the Indian ocean has raised new questions about what happened to MH370.
Noisy waters may be making it harder for southern resident killer whales to communicate with each other and find their food.
The noise from motor boats, sonar and other industrial activity interferes with the underwater chatter of fishes.
Loud noise from underwater seismic surveys can drive penguins from their normal foraging grounds.
A new method of analysing underwater sound waves has led to the creation of a faster, more informative tsunami early warning system.
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Reader of Applied Mathematics, Cardiff University
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Ford Professor of Engineering, Emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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Researcher in Marine Ecology, Nelson Mandela University
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Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Saskatchewan
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Associate Professor, University of Saskatchewan
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PhD Candidate, Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research (GLIER), University of Windsor
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Professor, School for Resource and Environmental Studies, Dalhousie University
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Master's student, Dalhousie University
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Associate Professor of Earth Sciences, Volcanology Cluster of Excellence, & Oregon Hazards Lab, University of Oregon
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Professor, School of the Environment, University of Windsor
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Director, Centre for Marine Science & Technology, Curtin University
