Listening for whales
Michel André, a 2002 Rolex Awards Laureate, has just completed successful first-stage trials of the first ever whale anti-collision system.
"The more noise we put into the ocean, the more we affect the way seadwellers communicate and live. There is now not a single space in the oceans that is free from noise pollution.”
But, he says, his research raises a greater issue – the pollution of the world’s oceans with human noise.
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Acoustic vision
View video of Michel André explaining how his LIDO system can save the lives of whales
Ocean noise rings alarm bells
Michel André discovers that squid and octopus suffer trauma in their acoustic organs when exposed to loud, low-frequency sounds
Thunder in the deep
A record of the spine-chilling thunder of the massive earthquake that shattered northern Japan on 11 March 2011 has been posted on the Internet by Rolex Laureate Michel André
Calming the roar of the world’s oceans
Michel André has built up the world’s first passive whale anti-collision system
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Dr Michel André
Laboratori d’Aplicacions Bioacústiques
Centre Tecnològic de Vilanova i la Geltrú
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Rambla Exposició s/n
08800 Vilanova i la Geltrú
Barcelona
SpainTel: + 34 93 896 72 27
Fax: + 34 93 896 77 00
michel.andre@upc.edu
