PORT TOWNSEND — A principal electrical engineer of the University of Washington’s applied physics lab will give a lecture intended to conjure awareness of the reality of underwater sound this weekend.

From our experience as moviegoers and sound designers, the ambiences, which create the cinematic world the characters live in, are often ignored. In audio post production, it is almost a truism that ...

Many people think of the ocean as a quiet and serene place: Take a dip underwater and the cacophony of the world melts away. But the ocean is quite noisy, full of whale songs and echolocation, which ...

Coral reefs are necessarily gorgeous in color and movement, but below the waves there is a similarly colorful world of sound. Underwater, there is a soundscape of snapping shrimp, grunting fish, and ...

The study of underwater sound propagation modelling is crucial for advancing the understanding of acoustic behaviour in complex marine environments. Researchers use an array of numerical ...

Thousands of marine species from microscopic zooplankton to the largest cetaceans rely on sound for survival and many have evolved unique oral and aural adaptations. Understanding them better could ...