Mentor Areas
Oceanography, whale acoustics, sound in the sea, software engineering, methods for locating sounds in the ocean, conservation.
Description:
Opportunity to conduct oceanographic research on the health of whales in the presence of stress due to increases in noise levels from the nascent offshore wind-energy industry and Navy sonar. Students will be involved with methods to locate and count whales from sounds collected in widely-separated receivers set on the ocean bottom for 6 months at a time. They will learn about propagation of sound in the sea and methods to analyze those sounds. Successful research outcomes will be published in peer-reviewed journals. Student should have working knowledge of the MATLAB programming language or be willing to learn it in the process of conducting the research. Students will learn how to write well documented and re-usable software.
Preferred Qualifications
Familiarity with computer programming or the MATLAB programming language, but these are not required.
Details:
Preferred Student Year
First-year, Second-Year, Junior, Senior
Volunteer
Yes
Yes indicates that faculty are open to volunteers.Paid
Yes
Yes indicates that faculty are open to paying students they engage in their research, regardless of their work-study eligibility.Work Study
Yes
Yes indicates that faculty are open to hiring work-study-eligible students.