June 4, 2015
…the opportunity to conduct marine mammal research alongside scientists from the Whale Acoustics Lab at Scripps. Photos by Michael Mahoney Have you ever listened to a bearded seal’s powerful trill or a bowhead whale’s haunting song? Can you hear the difference between calls, clicks, buzzes and whistles emitted by beluga…
August 8, 2016
Biologists have discovered high levels of pesticides and other contaminants from marine mammals in the tissues of endangered California condors living near the coast that they say could complicate recovery efforts for the largest land bird in North America.
April 4, 2016
In a new study, most marine mammals were found to exhale carbon monoxide at levels equivalent to or greater than the amount exhaled by a several-packs-a-day smoker.
October 31, 2022
Research off the coast of Mexico’s Guadalupe Island in the Pacific Ocean has revealed ultrasonic antifouling (UA) devices as a new form of noise pollution that threatens the habitats of whales and possibly other marine mammals.
April 20, 2023
For the first time, scientists have recorded brain activity in a free-ranging, wild marine mammal, revealing the sleep habits of elephant seals during the months they spend at sea.
December 8, 2017
Scientists have developed a new algorithm that can identify distinct click patterns among millions of clicks in recordings of wild dolphins, whose communication serves as a sentinel of ocean ecosystem health.
May 1, 2023
Biological oceanographer Simone-Baumann Pickering leads the Scripps Acoustic Ecology Laboratory, a group of researchers that works in collaboration with other campus labs recording underwater sound data in an effort to learn more about deep sea marine mammals and their prey.
June 29, 2015
A pair of paleobiologists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego have determined that the world’s most numerous and diverse vertebrates ¬– ray-finned fishes – began their ecological dominance of the oceans 66 million years ago, aided by the mass extinction event that killed off dinosaurs.
December 22, 2016
…gear at rates deemed unsustainable by the U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service.
November 19, 2015
…lives of these powerful marine mammals and allowed them to fill in some “really important blanks” in their knowledge about this species. “Leopard seals are often portrayed as these large, ferocious apex predators, and in many cases they are—but with new technologies and additional study, including the Crittercam, we are…
