WAKING UP CORAL REEFS. YEAH, THIS IS A REALLY INTERESTING STORY. NOW CORALS RELY ON A HEALTHY SOUNDSCAPE TO THRIVE, AND SCIENTISTS HERE IN MASSACHUSETTS MAY HAVE THE PERFECT SYMPHONY. SO THERE’S A LOT ...

Researchers combine acoustic monitoring with a neural network to identify fish activity on coral reefs by sound. They trained the network to sort through the deluge of acoustic data automatically, ...

Researchers have discovered playing the ambient sounds of healthy coral reefs underwater helps encourage vital reef-building coral, suggesting a promising path for repairing weakening reefs around the ...

Purring fish and snapping shrimp. Croaks and pulses from a chorus of fish. Those are some of the noises that make up the soundscape of a healthy coral reef. Local scientists at Woods Hole ...

Researchers have found that playing the sounds of happy corals through underwater speakers could allow degrading coral reefs to regain lost vitality. A team of scientists played recordings of healthy ...

WAKING UP CORAL REEFS. YEAH, THIS IS A REALLY INTERESTING STORY. NOW CORALS RELY ON A HEALTHY SOUNDSCAPE TO THRIVE, AND SCIENTISTS HERE IN MASSACHUSETTS MAY HAVE THE PERFECT SYMPHONY. SO THERE’S A LOT ...

INSKEEP: Nadege Aoki studies the bioacoustics of coral reefs at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts. NADEGE AOKI: They support close to a quarter of all marine species. And that also ...

Healthy coral reefs have rich soundscapes, full of the croaks, purrs, and grunts of various fishes and the crackling of snapping shrimp. Larval coral uses these sounds as cues to identify the best ...

A team of scientists from the UK and Australia teamed up to use underwater loudspeakers to try and entice fish back to dead coral reefs and potentially help them recover. By replicating the sounds of ...

WASHINGTON, March 11, 2025 – Coral reefs are some of the world’s most diverse ecosystems. Despite making up less than 1% of the world’s oceans, one quarter of all marine species spend some portion of ...