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Well, that was a lot of krill! The bottom screen shows the view from the remotely operated vehicle Ventana's camera and…
Posted by Pelagic Ecology Lab at MBARI on Wednesday, May 10, 2017
2017
- 07/10/17: “Undersea robot reveals “schools” of animals in deep scattering layers” — MBARI
- 05/10/17: “Field Instruments: Build it yourself” — Nature
- 02/24/17: “MBARI researcher wins project-of-the-year award” — MBARI
2016
- 10/07/16: “New MBARI scientist uses sound to study ocean predators and their prey” — MBARI
- 02/23/16: “Paper demonstrates autonomous underwater vehicles can be pre-programmed to make independent decisions” — Phys.org
- 02/18/16: “Whale-guided research reveals the oceans’ true biology” — Earth Times
2015
- 02/24/15: “OSU undersea gliders will use acoustics to track marine animals” — The Oregonian
- 12/01/15: “Submarines and Sea Monkeys” — Scientific American
2014
- 07/01/14: “Cool Jobs: A whale of a time” — Science News for Students
2013
- 03/28/13: “Stanford biologist gets a squid’s eye view —Stanford News
2012
- 09/05/12: “Marine Acoustics” — Pop!Tech (Video)
- 05/05/12: “Coordinated Hunting in Red Devils” —Deep Sea News
2011
- 04/01/11: “Kelly Benoit-Bird: Sounding the Deep” —The Scientist
2010
- 09/28/10: “Kelly Benoit-Bird Receives MacArthur ‘Genius’ Award” —MacArthur Foundation
“…This spatial ballet, played in weightless three-dimensional darkness, has likely been part of the oceans since the oceans were brought to life: layers of life gathering in extremely high densities to feed or to avoid being eaten.”
Acoustic award applauds scientist Kelly Benoit-Bird
February 11, 2020 – The Acoustical Society of America recently announced MBARI Senior Scientist Kelly Benoit-Bird as the 2020 recipient of the Medwin Prize in Acoustical Oceanography.
Risso’s dolphins balance holding their breath and finding food
December 12, 2019 – Using advanced echosounders, MBARI researchers are measuring the distribution, abundance, type, size, and movement of predators and their prey in the deep sea.
MBARI researchers share research stories at American Museum of Natural History
Feb 28, 2018 – Two of MBARI's newer researchers—Kelly Benoit-Bird and Kakani Katija—are being featured in a program at the American Museum of Natural History.
Murres dive into acoustic ecology
Sept 19, 2017 – An unusual data signal recorded in the ocean with an echosounder turned out not to be fish, but diving seabirds.
Speeding up sound sampling
Aug 11, 2017 – Sound may be weightless, but echosounders aren’t. To study Monterey Bay’s ecology, Scientist Kelly Benoit-Bird uses an echosounder with five different transducers, weighing about 165 pounds.
Undersea robot reveals “schools” of animals in deep scattering layers
Jul 10, 2017 – Throughout the world ocean, animals congregate at certain depths. A new paper in Limnology and Oceanography shows that, rather than consisting of a random mixture of animals, these deep-scattering layers contain discrete groups of squids, fishes, and crustaceans.
