Scientists have proposed a global library of underwater biological sounds to catalog, study, and map the sounds made by every underwater creature. Listen here for a sneak peek:
Most of us have heard the plaintive songs of humpback whales, or the cries of orcas chattering with their pods. But what about the strains of the spiky kina sea urchin? Now, scientists want to bring the song of the kina—and thousands of other unassuming sea creatures—to other researchers and the science-curious public.
. The library, appropriately dubbed “GLUBS,” would collect underwater sounds from acoustic experts and citizen scientists to help researchers track what’s going on in changing marine ecosystems.sat down with lead author Miles Parsons, a marine biologist who studies underwater sounds at the Australian Institute of Marine Science, to talk about why and how scientists are listening in on the ocean.A:
We’re not the first to suggest this—it is something that a lot of researchers have thought about, and some other libraries already exist for marine fauna. But they tend to be regionally focused or focused only on certain groups of animals. Biodiversity is decreasing or changing rapidly in some places, and marine fauna are changing their distributions and behaviors in response to environmental and manmade pressures.
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