"Transmitting live from the ocean below the Antarctic Ice"
I came across this the other day and it just fascinates me. Imagine listening to different kinds of whales and seals under the Antarctic ice in real time. You can also hear icebergs shearing off, and the crazy cracking of various ice formations. It doesn't even seem real, but it is. Just click the link and select MP3 Audio Stream. I use windows media player to listen.
http://www.awi.de/en/research/new_technologies/marine_observing_systems/ocean_acoustics/palaoa/palaoa_livestream/
They melted holes through the 300 foot thick ice to place the hydrophone microphones.
Here is their journal article. Its superb. Really explains what's going on and what your hearing.
http://epic.awi.de/Publications/Kin2008b.pdf
Pictures of what's below the ice:
http://tinyurl.com/63foe5
5 comments:
Cool - I can't wait to get home and check it out.
That is pretty cool - like haunted house sound effects. For a couple minutes I didn't hear much of anything - just a whiffing-clicking sound, then faintly it sounded like a pack of wolves howling as somebody turned... down... the speed... Then a much louder stereo-effect moan/sigh quickly from the right to left speaker: un-ahh... un-ahh... Then a little louder and closer, then louder and closer - like a Doppler-effect thing. Then right as it "went by" it stopped.
Cool pics on the other link too.
I look forward to more posts. Hope to see you Sat.
post more to impress the Jared.
Is this some sort of animal blog?
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