Since then, a few scientists have tried to listen in, but Rountree and his team are the first to submerge
hydrophones in the deep ocean for the sole purpose of listening to fish.
William Marks, a spokesman for the US Navy in Yokosuka, Japan, declined to comment on whether the United States had
hydrophones in the region.
«The project installs a total of 40
hydrophones in the Baltic Sea.»
«We have
hydrophones in the Atlantic, the Arctic, off Greenland, in the Bering Sea and in the Antarctic now, and I am constantly amazed at the variety of sounds coming from the sea,» she says.
Kate Stafford of the University of Washington in Seattle and her colleagues planted
hydrophones in the Fram Strait between Greenland and Svalbard, halfway between Norway and the North Pole.
Our captain, Kevin Smith, has put
a hydrophone in the water.
Not exact matches
In May 1997,
hydrophones picked up the «Slowdown» sound.
Drop a
hydrophone over the side of a boat
in the middle of a school and you will hear, depending upon the species, anything from birdlike trills to whistles, squeaks, squawks, oinks, blats, and Bronx cheers.
The researchers of six countries bordering the Baltic Sea who participate
in the BIAS project installed noise - measuring
hydrophones on the southern side of the Jussarö lighthouse near Tvärminne and
in the Gulf of Finland between Helsinki and Tallinn.
Tepp and colleagues at National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and USGS recently deployed a
hydrophone array
in the Northern Mariana Islands.
Next he hopes to plug into the rest of the
hydrophones, start tallying the neutrinos, and begin to zero
in on the strange, energetic objects that emit them.
«The process of taking measurements
in a carbonated beverage was more challenging than we expected, mainly because bubbles form on the
hydrophone itself and that can greatly affect the data that is collected,» said Spratt.
«When we came across the idea that bubbles play an important role
in the quality of a sparkling wine, our first instinct was to drop a
hydrophone into a glass and see what kind of sound we can hear,» said Spratt.
Meanwhile, it is unclear what other sources of
hydrophone data that could be used
in the search exist
in the region.
Researchers at IMDEA Networks (Spain)
in collaboration with University of Haifa (Israel) have developed an underwater acoustic system for the localization of marine mammals, underwater vehicles and other sound sources
in the ocean, using no more than a single
hydrophone (basically an underwater microphone) as a receiver.
A boat can «mow the lawn» over a large area
in a relatively short period of time, while stationary recorders on the seafloor have great temporal coverage, but they record only within a certain range of the
hydrophone,» said Selene Fregosi, a researcher at the Cooperative Institute for Marine Resources Studies, Oregon State University and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
in Newport, Oregon.
As conventional localization algorithms such as those used
in GPS - like systems can not be directly ported to an underwater scenario,
in this innovative system the localization is performed thanks to the incorporation of additional information about the environment surrounding the receiving
hydrophone.
They took advantage of a rare moment
in 2009, when a video camera and a
hydrophone were floating 1,200 meters below sea level
in the Pacific Ocean near Samoa, watching and listening as the West Mata Volcano blew up
in several ways.
He is interested
in both natural and anthropogenic underwater sound and has worked extensively with
hydrophone arrays to characterize ship noise and marine mammal sound.
It's dark when I get up at 6 am, the first hint of a new day on the horizon; the forest floor has turned gold and green as the cedars shed their summer cloak; honeysuckle leaves litter the boardwalks and garden ground; bright red honeysuckle berries are being plucked by tiny wrens; jays are sitting
in the apple tree, feasting on the fruit we imagined as apple pie; the last roses are fading; fronds of great bull kelp are landing on the beach, food for next year's garden; the sudden daybreak howl of sporty boats heading to the hot fishing spots where we have our
hydrophones has gone; sea lions are beginning to heave their huge bodies onto haul - out rocks along the way; most of our assistants have left, heading back to school or home; and
in their absence we are spending more time
in the lab at night, recording the voices of the orcas, who are still here.
We just don't know whether the G clan groups managed to sneak past our
hydrophones without breaking silence, or took another route «out», or whether they remained closeted somewhere
in inlets to the east (unlikely).
Discover the wildlife and scenery of Johnstone Strait while paddling towards camp and listening to the Orcas with
hydrophones; Enjoy free time at camp — Stay with the group or explore the beach and forest alone; Seek out the waterfall or laze
in a hammock watching for wildlife.
Your guide will always have the
hydrophone at the ready so no opportunity to listen
in on whale talk will be missed.
Discover the wildlife and scenery of Johnstone Strait & Queen Charlotte Strait while paddling between camps and listening to the Orcas with
hydrophones; Paddle Blackney Passage and into Blackfish sound and investigate the shallows
in search of colorful, inter-tidal creatures.
Should we be fortunate enough to find ourselves
in the vicinity of a pod of Orca or Dolphins, your guide will deploy the research grade
hydrophone they carry so we may hear their communications.
When we find ourselves
in the vicinity of a pod of Orca, your guide will deploy the research grade
hydrophone they carry so we may hear their communications.
An underwater
hydrophone pipes
in the otherworldly sound of whales communicating with each other.
Our guides use
hydrophones when the orcas are
in view so that you can thrill to the orcas vocalizing to each other underwater!
In the western North Pacific, we know there is at least one population that spends a significant portion of their time, including the mating season, too far west for our
hydrophones to hear them.
For their study, researchers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries West Coast Region used
hydrophone surveys
in order to better understand how marine species respond to climate change.
The first summer I was there I developed software to record acoustic data from the SOSUS
hydrophone array which is operating at the Whidbey Island naval base
in Puget Sound.
Every once
in a while there's some good news on the endangered species front: A team of scientists from Oregon State University and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has discovered an undetermined number of North Atlantic right whales,
in an area where it was thought they had been hunted nearly extinction over a hundred years ago: The whales were discovered by using a series of underwater
hydrophones to record the sound of the whales over hundreds of miles of ocean.
In this study, scientists dropped a cable off the side of the boat with a
hydrophone (underwater recording device) attached.