{"id":11,"date":"2018-01-22T12:34:25","date_gmt":"2018-01-22T16:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpdev.whoi.edu\/lab-migration4\/?post_type=fl-builder-template&#038;p=11"},"modified":"2025-05-12T08:07:34","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T12:07:34","slug":"homepage","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/amooney\/","title":{"rendered":"Homepage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t\t\t<img loading='false' src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/amooney\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/06\/P8103966.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><a href=\"#\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"The Sensory Ecology and Bioacoustics Lab\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a>\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<h2>The Sensory Ecology and Bioacoustics Lab<\/h2><p>Studying the sensory biology of marine organisms and marine acoustic environments<\/p>\n\t\t\t<img loading='false' src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/amooney\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/06\/DSCF1339.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><a href=\"#\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"Cetacean Acoustics\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a>\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<h2>Cetacean Acoustics<\/h2><p>How and why dolphins and whales hear and use sound and deal with human produced sound<\/p>\n\t\t\t<img loading='false' src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/amooney\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/06\/Caiger_053_September-29-2017.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<h2>Squid Sensory Environments<\/h2><p>Looking into what squid experience and how they receive and respond to those signals<\/p>\n\t\t\t<img loading='false' src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/amooney\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/06\/DSC02710.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<h2>Comparative Studies<\/h2><p>We comparatively study hearing in odontocetes, cephalopods, seabirds and other taxa to more broadly understand auditory adaptations and noise impacts<\/p>\n\t\t\t<img loading='false' src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/amooney\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/06\/DSC_0140-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<h2>Biosensors<\/h2><p>We develop and apply new tags and biosensors to examine how animals naturally behave and respond to changing environments<\/p>\n\t\t\t<img loading='false' src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/amooney\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/06\/IMG_3509.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<h2>Sound Production<\/h2><p>We address sound production in a diverse array of taxa including humpback whales<\/p>\n\t\t\t<img loading='false' src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/amooney\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/06\/Picture1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<h2>Acoustic behavior<\/h2><p>Examining how animals such as cuttlefish respond to anthropogenic noise<\/p>\n\t\t\t<img loading='false' src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/amooney\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/06\/2012-02-13-21.05.55.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#\" aria-label=\"previous\" role=\"button\">\n<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#\" aria-label=\"next\" role=\"button\">\n<\/a>\n\t&lt;!&#8211;\n\n&#8211;&gt;\n\n\t<h1>About the lab<\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Our research is in the sensory biology of animals, primarily marine organisms.\u00a0 We study how these animals detect the world around them, what they detect (i.e., what&#8217;s important to the organism), and how these animals then relate to their environment (e.g., predator detection, prey localization, habitat identification, and conspecific communication).\u00a0 Our science is integrative in techniques and comparative in its research subjects. Our reserach involves dolphins, false killer whales, belugas, puffins, finless porpoise, risso&#8217;s dolphin, squid, cuttlefish, coral reef fish, temperate fish, brown bears, polar bears, coral reef assemblages, and temparate soundscapes to name a few.\u00a0 Our research often addresses bioacoustic related questions, but we certainly not limited to that modality. Some of this work stems from examining the influences of increasing human-produced noise or other stressors such as ocean acidification or fisheries bycatch. Our primary interests originate in examining the relationship of sensory physiology and sensory anatomy to animal behavior and ecological relationships. This allows us to address communication, develop and apply new biosensor tags, and quantify soundscapes.<\/p>\n\t<h1>In the News<\/h1>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sensory Ecology and Bioacoustics Lab Studying the sensory biology of marine organisms and marine acoustic environments Cetacean Acoustics How and why dolphins and whales hear and use sound and deal with human produced sound Squid Sensory Environments Looking into what squid experience and how they receive and respond to those signals Comparative Studies We&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/amooney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/amooney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/amooney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/amooney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/amooney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/amooney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1322,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/amooney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions\/1322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/amooney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}