hydrophone
noun
hy·dro·phone
ˈhī-drə-ˌfōn 
: an instrument for listening to sound transmitted through water
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Ringing the ‘dinner bell’ Between 2022 and 2023, at least eight male elephant seals, ages four to seven, were seen on camera and detected by hydrophones at Ocean Network Canada’s subsea cabled observatory NEPTUNE.
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Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 4 Sep. 2024
Researchers are working with hydrophones and robotic fish to make contact in a seven-square-mile stretch of the Caribbean, off the coast of Dominica.
—T. Nelson Thompson, Baltimore Sun, 14 June 2024
The other four landers—which Davies plans to equip with hydrophones, or underwater microphones—will be deployed later this year.
—Robin Catalano, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 June 2024
Ames will use hydrophones to record Risso’s dolphins off Pico Island in the Azores, an archipelago off Portugal in the North Atlantic.
—Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 May 2024
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Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 4 Sep. 2024
Researchers are working with hydrophones and robotic fish to make contact in a seven-square-mile stretch of the Caribbean, off the coast of Dominica.
—T. Nelson Thompson, Baltimore Sun, 14 June 2024
The other four landers—which Davies plans to equip with hydrophones, or underwater microphones—will be deployed later this year.
—Robin Catalano, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 June 2024
Ames will use hydrophones to record Risso’s dolphins off Pico Island in the Azores, an archipelago off Portugal in the North Atlantic.
—Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 May 2024
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hydrophone
noun
hy·dro·phone
ˈhī-drə-ˌfōn
: an instrument for listening to sound transmitted through water
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