Soundscape Listening Room OverviewTeamLatest NewsTechnologiesData In the Soundscape Listening Room, you can access a live stream and a library of sounds, both recorded using a hydrophone (underwater microphone) off Central California. These recordings are part of a research and education project that employs a deep-sea cabled observatory to continuously record sounds within and outside the range of human hearing. These sounds fall into three categories: biophony (sounds of marine life), geophony (sounds of the earth), and anthrophony (sounds of human activities). Live StreamThe live audio stream has been amplified so that you can hear it through your speakers, but you may still need to turn up your volume to hear the many subtle sounds. The very low pitch of some baleen whale vocalizations can only be heard with appropriate speakers (subwoofer or high-quality headphones).The stream is delayed approximately 20 minutes from the current time to allow for processing. Sound files are recorded in 10-minute segments, so every 10 minutes you will hear the beginning of a new sound file. Sound sources and levels vary greatly. Tuning in at any time, you may hear whales, dolphins, sea lions, boats, rain, wind, earthquakes, and other sounds. Very loud sounds have been muted to avoid major changes in the volume.If you tune in to a quiet soundscape, check back later. Meanwhile, you can listen to pre-recorded clips of many sounds recorded with this hydrophone (below), or listen/see how fun the ocean soundscape can be in this example.The Live Stream is currently offline due to equipment maintenance. Our team is working on repairs and we expect the Live Stream to be running again later this fall. Stay tuned and thanks for your interest and patience. Have Alexa? You can listen to the a live feed though the Amazon Alexa skill. The MBARI Ocean Soundscape Skill can be enabled for free through the amazon.com Alexa Skills web page.Once enabled, the Skill can be launched by asking ‘Alexa, open Ocean Soundscape’. In the Skill, one can ask Ocean Soundscape to play the live stream. ‘Alexa, Ask Ocean Soundscape to play the live stream’. Or ask Ocean Soundscape to play pre-recorded sounds of dolphins, beaked whales, gray whales, marine mammals, orcas, blue whales, fin whales, humpback whales, or sperm whales. For example, ‘Alexa, Ask Ocean Soundscape to play sounds of sperm whales’.You end the Ocean Soundscape Skill by asking ‘Alexa, clear’. Recording LibraryUse the category buttons below to select recordings associated with each source of sound. To play a sound, use the playback controls located at the lower left of each sound clip. Information about each sound is available by clicking on the sound title. Some of the recordings are relatively long (more than one hour) and so may take time to load before playing.NOTE: Some of these sounds have a very low pitch and cannot be heard on computer or phone speakers. To hear these sounds you will need to play them on a sound system with a subwoofer speaker or use high-quality headphones. This requirement is indicated in the sound clip titles with, **audible only with appropriate speakers**. Read More Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Ut elit tellus, luctus nec ullamcorper mattis, pulvinar dapibus leo. Team Directory John Ryan Senior Research Specialist Principal Investigator Danelle E. Cline Senior Software Engineer Kevin Gomes Information Engineering Group Lead Duane Edgington Senior Software Engineer Publications All Publications Sorry, no results were found. Latest News All News News Sound provides new information about the secret lives of sperm whales News 09.24.24 News Sound provides new insight into the lives of blue whales News 02.17.22 News MBARI shares trove of acoustic data on the Amazon Web Services cloud Press Release 10.11.21 Technologies All Technologies Vehicle, Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) ROV Ventana Technology ROV Ventana A remotely operated vehicle equipped with a Sea-Bird 19plus V2 CTD package including a dissolved oxygen sensor, transmissometer, and spatial lasers mounted on the main camera. Observatory, Cabled Observatory Monterey Accelerated Research System (MARS) Technology Monterey Accelerated Research System (MARS) MARS provides electrical power and data connections for new research instruments in the deep-sea. Data All Data Data Soundscape Visual Browser MBARI's audio recordings have been translated into visual representations as spectrograms, which can be viewed hour-by-hour, day-by-day
Vehicle, Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) ROV Ventana Technology ROV Ventana A remotely operated vehicle equipped with a Sea-Bird 19plus V2 CTD package including a dissolved oxygen sensor, transmissometer, and spatial lasers mounted on the main camera.
Observatory, Cabled Observatory Monterey Accelerated Research System (MARS) Technology Monterey Accelerated Research System (MARS) MARS provides electrical power and data connections for new research instruments in the deep-sea.
Data Soundscape Visual Browser MBARI's audio recordings have been translated into visual representations as spectrograms, which can be viewed hour-by-hour, day-by-day