There will be a meeting to discuss the logistics and potential for a bus trip to Washington, D.C. to visit the Smithsonian Institute from November 7-11. The meeting will be held in Burke 205 from 1-2 pm.

It's kind of last-minute, but you never know....
One of you posted about this. I would be game to go.

The Centro Interdisciplinaire de Bioacustica e Richerche Ambientali (Interdisciplinary Center for Bioacoustics and Environmental Research: CIBRA), at the University of Pavia, Italy. Their Laboratory of Marine Bioacustics conducts research on the acoustic communication in animals.

NOAA's Whale Acoustic Project: a good introduction to the physics of underwater acoustics plus sound clips of many cetaceans, including blue, fin, minke and humpback whales.

Links to Humpback Songs:
PBS: Humpback Whales
DolphinEAR Sound Laboratory
WhaleLink: Song of the Humpback


Killer Whale Links:
WhaleLink: details on killer whale dialects, sound bytes and sonograms
OrcaFM: listen to British Columbia's killer whales live via satellite!

Dr. John Ford: a leading researcher in marine mammal acoustics. Listen to sounds of killer whales, humpbacks, belugas and narwhals!

Fish Acoustics: from the East Carolina University: listen to the sounds of the oyster toadfish, the spotted sea trout and the Red Drum!

Cornell University's Library of Natural Sounds: has over 130,000 wildlife sound bytes to listen to!

Cornell's Bioacoustics Research Program: A whale communication project looking at how to census whale populations using sound and addressing the issue of how human-created sound may affect marine mammals.

Sounding Out the Ocean's Secrets: An underwater acoustics page by the National Academy of Science.

SAINT MARY'S UNIVERSITY
Environmental Studies Program
Visiting Guest Lecturer

Dr. Yukio Tomita, Hokkaido University of Education,
Hakodate, Japan

“Physical Effect of Bubbles in Cavitation and Underwater Acoustics”

Friday, October 3, 2008 Time: 12:00 Noon Location: Science S310

Thanks to the author of the first set of instructions, who posted a comment on that post, we have an updated version that can be found at this site.
Thank you Dr. Krause!

Thanks for the question about the Canary Islands in class today, Ben. I came across this slide presentation prepared by two researchers at the Southampton Oceanography Centre. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

I came across a really detailed set of instructions for setting up a blog from this site. If you wanted to get a head start on this feel free to go through the instructions and set one up. At least one of you already has (see sidebar). I'll be going over this next week as well.

Thanks to one of you (I love receiving links and interesting information related to the course), I wanted to share this web site with you regarding Canada's efforts to prepare a submission to the United Nations to define the limits of its extended continental shelf. Read about it here and here. Take a look at the extent of the ice cover change in the Arctic here. You may also find it interesting to track the oceanographic research ships that are at sea at present.

From the US National Weather Service: this is a warning to pay attention to! I am worried for the people who stay behind in Galveston, Texas!

ALL NEIGHBORHOODS...AND POSSIBLY ENTIRE COASTAL COMMUNITIES...WILL BE INUNDATED DURING THE PERIOD OF PEAK STORM TIDE. PERSONSNOT HEEDING EVACUATION ORDERS IN SINGLE FAMILY ONE OR TWO STORY HOMES WILL FACE CERTAIN DEATH. MANY RESIDENCES OF AVERAGE CONSTRUCTION DIRECTLY ON THE COAST WILL BE DESTROYED. WIDESPREAD AND DEVASTATING PERSONAL PROPERTY DAMAGE IS LIKELY ELSEWHERE.VEHICLES LEFT BEHIND WILL LIKELY BE SWEPT AWAY. NUMEROUS ROADS WILL BE SWAMPED...SOME MAY BE WASHED AWAY BY THE WATER. ENTIRE FLOOD PRONE COASTAL COMMUNITIES WILL BE CUT OFF. WATER LEVELS MAY EXCEED 9 FEET FOR MORE THAN A MILE INLAND. COASTAL RESIDENTS IN MULTI-STORY FACILITIES RISK BEING CUT OFF. CONDITIONS WILL BE WORSENED BY BATTERING WAVES. SUCH WAVES WILL EXACERBATE PROPERTY DAMAGE...WITH MASSIVE DESTRUCTION OF HOMES...INCLUDING THOSE OF BLOCK CONSTRUCTION. DAMAGE FROM BEACH EROSION COULD TAKE YEARS TO REPAIR.

I'll be posting more about Ike through the day. Stay tuned.