The Scripps Acoustic Ecology Lab (Scripps Acoustic Ecology ) is interested in investigating what top predators (like cetaceans) are in Southern California, what prey they are foraging on, and the underlying physical oceanography that is informing the presence of these marine animals.

We are advancing the Bioacoustics Stack Exchange proposal!!! Now it's time to COMMIT. Next, we have to prove we have community to keep it alive #ESOMM2022 Will you join us? Please click 'Commit' on the following link: buff.ly/35YtZUY

.Alba Solsona uses 15+ years of data (!) showing less beaked whale activity with sonar at daily & annual timescales. Hattaras whales rarely hear sonar & likely respond at MUCH lower levels than California, where sonar is common. Important results at #ESOMM2022 w/ Scripps Acoustic Ecology

Do you speak whale? 🐋 Scripps PhD student Natalie Posdaljian (Natalie Posdaljian) does. Working with Scripps Marine Bioacoustics Research Collaborative & Scripps Acoustic Ecology, she studies acoustic data from sperm whales, as they can potentially signal greater changes in ecosystems. Meet Natalie here: scripps.ucsd.edu/news/scripps-s…

What does a marine sanctuary sound like? 🐋🔊 Sanctuaries (NOAA)' new SanctSound web portal allows you to explore the acoustic richness of the underwater world, aka the marine soundscape. Researchers with Scripps Acoustic Ecology & Scripps Marine Bioacoustics Research Collaborative contributed to the project: sanctsound.portal.axds.co/#

Personally, I like to rise above the loop vs apply debate in R by simply copying and pasting my code repeatedly.

Save the Date: Tuesday, May 10th 2:30 - 4 PST Seatech Student Research Symposium at SIO, UCSD + virtual viewing (DM me for details) Research topics include #marinemammal acoustics in the Gulf of Alaska, Canadian Arctic, & California Current buff.ly/3LESHJA

It's Happening TODAY!!!! The 2022 Seatech Symposium is this afternoon Scripps Institution of Oceanography! 2:30 - 4 pm PST in Sumner Auditorium Students will share exciting & important results on acoustic behavior of humpbacks, sperm whales, narwhals, Pacific white-sided and Risso's dolphins.

Sperm whales are being observed in the high Arctic! This wonderful blog post by @TesarAlex explains why that might be.

Following our first video on how we estimate animal density from passive acoustic recordings, here's a #scicomm video explaining how cue rates for passive acoustic density estimation are important! youtube.com/watch?v=iOX2Y1… Video produced by Maria Zacarias

If I had $1 for every time someone asked me how my PhD is going or when I was going to be finished, I’d make a living wage.

Announcing the first seminar of 2023! Next week we'll hear all about the neurogenetics and ecology of cetacean vocal behavior from speakers Brigid Maloney (@BrigidMaloney) and Natalie Posdaljian (Natalie Posdaljian) 🐳 🗓️ January 9th 18:00 CET ✅ Register: bit.ly/3ClW31w

New year means new papers!! Our new article on #toothedwhales presence at three sites in #Hawaii over the past 10 years is now out in Ecology and Evolution! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ec…

Come see the 2023 Seatech Student Research Symposium (Scripps Institution of Oceanography & on Zoom) May 16 2:30 - 4 pm PT Working with these amazing students is the best part of my job! 🐳 🎵 🐟 😎 #AcousticEcology #Soundscapes #Mentoring #DiversityInSTEM NOAAFish_WCRO buff.ly/44sacXn

I'm excited to defend my doctoral dissertation from Scripps Institution of Oceanography this Thursday, September 28th at 10:00 AM PST. The public is invited to attend in person or virtually via Zoom. Message me for the Zoom link if you're interested!