{"id":34517,"date":"2015-11-03T01:18:42","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T09:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/oceanographers-find-whalesong-in-arctic-waters\/"},"modified":"2015-11-03T01:18:42","modified_gmt":"2015-11-03T09:18:42","slug":"oceanographers-find-whalesong-in-arctic-waters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/life\/oceanographers-find-whalesong-in-arctic-waters\/","title":{"rendered":"Oceanographers find whalesong in Arctic waters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A team of researchers recording the sounds of whales in Alaska\u2019s Arctic have recorded humpback whales singing in the Chukchi Sea, something previously thought to happen only in tropical waters.<\/p>\n<p>Kathleen Stafford, an oceanographer at the Applied Physics Lab at the University of Washington, presented the discovery Monday at the fall meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Jacksonville, Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Stafford is part of a team monitoring whales using a system of passive microphones dropped below the region\u2019s icepack. <\/p>\n<p>The microphones allow the team to detect seals and walrus \u2014 as well as whales \u2014 at distance, and in the fog that frequently blankets the Bering Strait.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of researchers recording the sounds of whales in Alaska\u2019s Arctic have recorded humpback whales singing in the Chukchi Sea, something previously thought to happen only in tropical waters. Kathleen Stafford, an oceanographer at the Applied Physics Lab at the University of Washington, presented the discovery Monday at the fall meeting of the Acoustical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":34518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":7,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[149],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-34517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life","tag-outdoors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34517"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=34517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}