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New Delhi, April 9
Travel and economic slowdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic have combined to put the brakes on shipping, seafloor exploration, and many other human activities in the ocean, creating a unique moment to begin a time-series study of the impacts of sound on marine life.
A community of scientists has identified more than 200 non-military ocean hydrophones worldwide and hopes to make the most of the unprecedented opportunity to pool their recorded data into the 2020 quiet ocean assessment and to help monitor the ocean soundscape long into the future.
They aim for a total of 500 hydrophones capturing the signals of whales and other marine life while assessing the racket levels of human activity.
Global network to eavesdrop on oceans quieted by Covid
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08/04/2021 - 17:25 Travel and economic downturns due to Covid-19 has seen falls in maritime traffic, sea floor exploration and other human interference, creating a unique moment to gather data on the oceans sonic landscape CLEMENT MAHOUDEAU AFP/File 3 min
Paris (AFP)
Scientists will take advantage of an unprecedented fall in shipping activity to listen in to the world s oceans and study how manmade noise affects marine ecosystems, the project organisers said Thursday.
Travel and economic downturns due to Covid-19 have seen falls in maritime traffic, sea floor exploration and other human interference, creating a unique moment to gather data on the oceans sonic landscape, they said.
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