Dr. KATE STAFFORD on What the Whales Hear [ENCORE] /272

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🗓️ 9 February 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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This week we are rebroadcasting our interview with Dr. Kate Stafford, originally aired in September of 2020. The bowhead whale can live up to 200 years old, meaning that the bowhead whales of today know and remember a world that sounded, tasted, and felt very different than the one we live in. Perhaps their living memory has yet to normalize marine pollution, anthropogenic sounds, and the underwater effects of globalization and heavy industrialization. In this episode of For The Wild with Dr. Kate Stafford, we listen to the many songs the ocean body sings, asking; how does a warming climate alter the Arctic’s soundscape? Why are the waters of the Arctic becoming louder, and what does this mean for kin like the bowhead? Dr. Kate Stafford’s research focuses on using passive acoustic monitoring to examine migratory movements, geographic variation, and physical drivers of marine mammals, particularly large whales. She has worked all over the world from the tropics to the poles and is fortunate enough to have seen (and recorded) blue whales in every ocean in which they occur. Kate’s current research focuses on the changing acoustic environment of the Arctic and how changes, from sea ice declines to increasing industrial human use, may be influencing subarctic and Arctic marine mammals. Kate Stafford is a Senior Principal Oceanographer at the Applied Physics Lab and an affiliate Associate Professor in the School of Oceanography at the University of Washington in Seattle. Support the show

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0:46.5	Welcome to For the Wild Podcast. I'm Ayanna Young. This week we are re-broadcasting our
0:52.4	interview with Dr. Kate Stafford, originally aired in September of 2020. We hope you enjoy
0:58.4	this special encore episode.
1:08.0	Hello and welcome to For the Wild Podcast. I'm Ayanna Young.
1:12.6	Today I'm speaking with Dr. Kate Stafford, whose research focuses on using passive acoustic
1:18.8	monitoring to examine migratory movements, geographic variation, and physical drivers of
1:25.2	marine mammals, particularly large whales. She has worked all over the world from the tropics
1:31.7	to the poles and is fortunate enough to have seen and recorded blue whales in every ocean in which
1:38.2	they occur. And if you know anything about the marine environment, you might know that that light
1:44.3	doesn't travel very far through water, since smells don't necessarily travel very far through water,
1:51.6	but sound travels far and efficiently through water. So all marine animals from snapping
1:58.1	trip to whales were live very heavily on sound.
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