Lab Description

The Acoustics Lab is part of the Cooperative Institute for Marine Resources Studies. Our acoustic research falls into three areas: ocean ambient sound, geophysical sound, and bioacoustics.

The goals of the Acoustics program are to:

  • Quantify anthropogenic, biological, cryogenic, geophysical and meteorological sound sources in the global ocean.
  • Measure and establish baseline levels of sound in the ocean to allow characterization of the current state of the ocean soundscape
  • To gauge the amount ocean sound levels may be changing, over what space-time scales these changes are occurring, as well as the interplay of the underlying causes of change (i.e. anthropogenic versus natural sources of sound).

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Research Area(s)
  • Marine Tools and Tech
Agency/Affiliation
  • CIMRS
  • OSU