{"id":27063,"date":"2023-02-13t19:37:58","date_gmt":"2023-02-13t19:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.planetforward.com\/2023\/02\/13\/what-will-our-future-sound-like-how-marine-ecologists-are-confronting-ocean-sound-pollution\/"},"modified":"2023-03-15t20:37:36","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15t20:37:36","slug":"marine-ecologists-sound-pollution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/\/www.getitdoneaz.com\/story\/marine-ecologists-sound-pollution\/","title":{"rendered":"what will our future sound like? how marine ecologists are confronting ocean sound pollution"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
what might an untrained ear miss when it submerges itself beneath the ocean waves? there is usually the pan-frying sound of snapping shrimp. other species are communicating with each other underwater as well, though we humans are only just beginning to detect them and unravel their meaning. humpback whales communicate with potential mates with low-frequency songs that can be heard from thousands of miles away, marine biologists say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
on the lower end of the hearing spectrum, male atlantic haddock circle their territory for hours, trying to attract mates using distinctive \u201cknocks.”<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n these sounds paint a picture of a biodiverse and teeming marine ecosystem. but humans are destroying it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n heather spence, ph.d., a composer and marine science advisor for the u.s. department of energy, has dedicated her life to researching the effects of human-caused noise pollution on marine life. through sound, she says, a trained specialist can determine the health of a marine ecosystem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201c[the sounds] transport you because you’ve got all of these textures that have layers of sound going on, like the snapping shrimp,\u201d said spence in a phone call. \u201cbut if you listen more, you can hear some subtle sounds from fish and spiny lobsters.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n through her acoustic monitoring surveys in cancun, mexico, spence found that recreational boaters would overpower or \u201cmask\u201d the animals\u2019 sounds when they were present.<\/p>\n\n\n\nthe issue of sound<\/h2>\n\n\n\n