Media & Publications
We strive to connect our work at sea to communities as broadly as possible - our science communication strategies encompass a variety of media types. Read and listen about the work being done by SOS scientists and collaborators through the podcasts, scientific publications, popular news stories, and creative media listed below. For a full list of SOS scientist publications, check out the links for individual team members on the Team page.
Podcasts & Radio
Snap, Crackle, Shrimp!
Overheard at National Geographic
By Jacob Pinter 2023
Climate change driving snapping shrimp to snap
By Bob McDonald Quirks & Quarks, 2023
Eavesdropping on Shrimp’s Snap Chat:
Tiny animals dominate the undersea soundscape
By Véronique LaCapra January 30, 2017
Popular Press Featuring SOS
ScienceNews. "Eavesdropping on fish could help us keep better tabs on underwater worlds" April 2, 2024
St. Thomas Source. "Coral Nursery Launches to Restore Brain Corals in Butler Bay" June 6, 2023
Phys.org. "As oceans warm, snapping shrimp sound a warning" August 18, 2022
Canadian Geographic. "Bioacoustics: What nature’s sounds can tell us about the health of our world" August 12, 2022
Scientific American. "Snapping Shrimp Make More Noise in Warmer Oceans" March 12, 2020
Forbes. "Why Noisier Coral Reefs Are Healthier" December 20, 2018
EurekAlert. "Coral larvae use sound to find a home on the reef" December 12, 2018
Smithsonian Magazine. "Oysters Don’t Have Ears But Still Use Sound to Choose Their Homes" November 1, 2013
ScienceNews (Scicurious). "The reefs are alive with the sound of oysters"
New York Times Magazine. Voyages: Listen to the World. St. John, US Virgin Islands
Presentations Available Online
Selected Scientific Publications
Soundscape Variation & Measurement
Lillis, A., Apprill, A., Armenteros, M. & T.A. Mooney. (2023) Small-scale variation in the acoustic environments of coral reefs. In: Popper, A. N., Hawkins, A.D., Thomsen, F. (eds) The Effects of Noise on Aquatic Life. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10417-6_114-1. PDF
Lillis, A., Caruso, F., Mooney, T.A., Llopiz, J.K., Bohnenstiehl, D.R., & D.B. Eggleston. (2018) Drifting hydrophones as an ecologically meaningful approach to underwater soundscape measurement in coastal benthic habitats. Journal of Ecoacoustics 2: #STBDH1, https://doi.org/10.22261/JEA.STBDH1. PDF
Dinh, J.P., Suca, J.J., Lillis, A., Apprill, A., Llopiz, J, & T.A. Mooney. (2018) Multiscale spatio-temporal patterns of boat noise on U.S. Virgin Island coral reefs. Marine Pollution Bulletin 136: 282-290 PDF
Lillis, A., Eggleston, D.B. & Bohnenstiehl, D.R. (2014) Soundscape variation from a larval perspective: the case for habitat-associated sound as a settlement cue for weakly swimming larvae. Marine Ecology Progress Series 509: 57-70. doi: 10.3354/meps10917. PDF
Lillis, A., Eggleston, D.B. & Bohnenstiehl, D.R. (2014) Estuarine soundscapes: distinct acoustic characteristics of oyster reefs compared to soft-bottom habitats. Marine Ecology Progress Series 505: 19-28. PDF
Larval Settlement & Soundscapes
Suca, J.J., Lillis, A., Jones, I.T., Kaplan, M.B. and others. (2020) Variable and spatially explicit response of fish larvae to the playback of local, continuous reef soundscapes. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 653:131151. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps13480. PDF
Lillis, A., Apprill, A., Suca, J.J., Becker, C., Llopiz, J.K. & T. A. Mooney. (2018) Soundscapes influence the settlement of the common Caribbean coral Porites astreoides irrespective of light conditions. Royal Society Open Science. 5(12). http://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.181358. PDF
Lillis, A., Bohnenstiel, D., Peters, J.W., & Eggleston, D. (2016) Variation in habitat soundscape characteristics influences settlement of a reef-building coral. PeerJ 4:e2557 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2557. PDF
Lillis, A., Eggleston, D.B. & Bohnenstiehl, D.R. (2016) Soundscapes and larval settlement: characterizing the stimulus from a larval perspective. In: Popper, A. & Hawkins, A. (Eds.) The Effect of Noise on Aquatic Life II, Springer, New York. p.637-646. PDF
Lillis A., Bohnenstiehl DR, Eggleston DB. (2015) Soundscape manipulation enhances larval recruitment of a reef-building mollusk. PeerJ 3:e999. PDF
Lillis, A., Eggleston, D.B. & Bohnenstiehl, D.R. (2013) Oyster larvae settle in response to habitat- associated underwater sounds. PLoS ONE 8(10): e79337. PDF
Snapping Shrimp Acoustic Ecology
Lillis, A. & T.A. Mooney. (2022) Sounds of a changing sea: temperature drives acoustic output by dominant biological sound-producers in shallow water habitats. Frontiers in Marine Science. 9:960881. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2022.960881. PDF
Lillis, A., & T.A. Mooney. (2018) Snapping shrimp sound production patterns on Caribbean coral reefs: relationships with celestial cycles and environmental variables. Coral Reefs 37(2): 597-607. PDF
Lillis, A., Perelman, J., Panyi, A. & Mooney, T.A. (2017) Sound production patterns of big-clawed snapping shrimp (Alpheus spp.) are influenced by time-of-day and social context. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 142(5): 3311-3320. PDF
Bohnenstiel, D.R., Lillis, A. & Eggleston, D.B. (2016) The Curious Acoustic Activity of Estuarine Snapping Shrimp: Temporal Patterns of Snapping Shrimp Sound in Sub-tidal Oyster Reef Habitat. PLoS ONE. 11(1): e0143691. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0143691. PDF
Lillis, A. & Mooney, T.A. (2016) Loudly heard, little seen, and rarely understood: Spatiotemporal variation and environmental drivers of sound production by snapping shrimp. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics 27: 010017, http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/2.0000270. PDF
Film & Documentary
SOS Chief Scientist featured in Fusion Univision documentary “Coral Reefs Last Stand: Cuba” https://fusion.tv/video/589477/coral-reefs-last-stand-cuba/
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