In this twenty minute interview on the Acoustical Society of America’s Across Acoustics podcast MOO team collaborator Jack Terhune discusses the acoustical behaviors of Antarctica’s Weddell seals.
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Airplane wings that don't ice up or solar cells that generate electricity even in winter - ice-free surfaces are important for many applications. A team of scientists has now studied an Antarctic scallop species that opposes the icing process with the help of its shell surface…
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I’m sitting on the edge of a hole drilled through 15 feet of Antarctic sea ice, about to descend into the frigid ocean of the southernmost dive site in the world. I wear nearly 100 pounds of gear…
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Nearly one fifth of the underwater vocalizations produced by Antarctica’s Weddell seals occur at pitches above the limits of human hearing, according to a recent study…
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A new research paper published in the December edition of The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America shows that Weddell seals vocalize underwater at frequencies too high for humans to hear…
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We discovered that Weddell seals regularly vocalize at ultrasonic frequencies. That is, they produce “high pitch” chirps, whistles and trills at frequencies above the range of human hearing….
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The water is so cold that fish inhabiting it should freeze like an icicle, a phenomenon that evolutionary biologist Paul Cziko uses supercooled water, snow, and fish guts to demonstrate…
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EUGENE, OR — Scientists at the University of Oregon are giving the public a rare glimpse at what's happening below the ice in the Antarctic some 9,000 miles away…
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An innovative project to understand how fish survive in the frigid Antarctic waters is opening up new avenues for researchers monitoring what goes on under the sea ice in McMurdo Sound…
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With a National Science Foundation grant, University of Oregon biologist Paul Cziko installs a video camera, microphone and ocean sensors 70 feet under the Antarctic sea ice…
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