Our Projects
We are working in marine systems around on the world with local partners on exciting collaborative projects. Read summaries for our projects below and find more detail within individual project pages. Follow @soundoceanscience on Instagram and Twitter for the latest news and updates.
Unguja Island, Zanzibar
A Coral Spawning Calendar for Zanzibar
We have been recording the underwater sounds of the coral reef in Butler Bay, St. Croix since March 2022 to monitor the patterns in biological and anthropogenic sound sources. In Fall 2022, we expanded our ecoacoustic monitoring to include audio samples of the terrestrial wildlife and soundscapes found around Butler Bay. We are now working to create an immersive audio-visual map to explore the diversity of sounds around the small nature preserve.
Bazaruto Archipelago, Mozambique
Sounds of a Changing Sea:
Exploring the unheard acoustic diversity of Mozambique's vulnerable coastal habitats
We are characterizing spatiotemporal variation in soundscapes across coastal marine ecosystems in Bazaruto Archipelago, Mozambique (e.g., coral reefs, seagrass meadows, mangroves, sand banks, and open ocean), and test relationships between the acoustic characteristics and biophysical parameters (e.g., temperature, tides, biodiversity).
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St. Croix, US Virgin Islands, Caribbean
Coral Incubator:
Improving outcomes of coral reef restoration through in situ larval rearing, settlement, and juvenile grow-out
Our project in St. Croix seeks to create and test a simple in-water system to incubate baby coral, beginning at the larval stage through to a juvenile size that can produce higher survival results when planted onto reefs. This effort is in collaboration with a local eco-resort with a key parallel objective to the research and development of training and building capacity in the community for coral restoration.
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St. Croix, US Virgin Islands, Caribbean
Sound Map of Butler Bay Nature Preserve
We have been recording the underwater sounds of the coral reef in Butler Bay, St. Croix since March 2022 to monitor the patterns in biological and anthropogenic sound sources. In Fall 2022, we expanded our ecoacoustic monitoring to include audio samples of the terrestrial wildlife and soundscapes found around Butler Bay. We are now working to create an immersive audio-visual map to explore the diversity of sounds around the small nature preserve.
Worldwide
Projects in Development
Our team is busy developing new proposals and collaborations around the world. Current pilot projects and proposals include:
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"Interviews with Fish" - documenting acoustic behaviour of fish and invertebrates using closed circuit rebreather diving and autonomous audio-video arrays
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Integrating ecoacoustics and eDNA to monitor reefs in East Africa
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Soundscapes of kelp forests in South Africa
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Growing our global soundscape library and examining snapping shrimp acoustic patterns around the world
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Sound Ocean Science is an international collective of marine scientists, guided by the principle of advancing marine ecology and conservation through rigorous application of the scientific method. We are a registered non-profit in South Africa and Canada, and work across ocean basins and borders.
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