External links
- Making Ambient Noise Trends Accessible (MANTA) - software to examine soundscapes in the ocean
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Jennifer Miksis-Olds | |
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| Academic background | |
| Education | Harvard University (AB) University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (MS) University of Rhode Island (PhD) |
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| Discipline | Biology |
| Sub-discipline | Marine biology |
Jennifer Miksis-Olds is an American marine scientist known for her research using acoustics to track marine mammals.
Miksis-Olds received an A.B. in biology from Harvard University (1996),and during this time she volunteered in a primate lab which she credits as her introduction to acoustics. [1] Miksis-Olds has an M.S. in biology from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (2000) [2] and spent time as a guest student at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (1996–2004). She obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Rhode Island in 2006,where she studied the connections between sound and manatees. [3]
After her graduate work,Miksis-Olds worked at Pennsylvania State University from 2007 until 2016,when she moved to the University of New Hampshire. [4] She is currently the director of the Center for Acoustics Research and Education at the University of New Hampshire. [5]
In 2016,Miksis-Olds was elected a fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, [6] "for contributions to underwater acoustic noise research and the integration of acoustics into marine ecology".
From 2016 to 2018,Miksis-Olds was on the scientific committee of the International Quiet Ocean Experiment, [7] a group of researchers working on ocean soundscapes and how sound impacts marine organisms. Miksis-Olds is also on the board at the Consortium for Ocean Leadership where her term ends in October 2021. [8]
Miksis-Olds' graduate research characterized the pattern of sound production from manatees [9] and measured sound levels in grassbeds inhabited by manatees which revealed that,all else being equal,manatees opt for grassbeds with lower noise levels. [10] Miksis-Olds' research determined that manatees increase their activity in the presence of sounds similar to boats [11] and they alter their behavior with periods of higher sound levels connected to increased feeding activity. [12]
Miksis-Olds has used sound to track the location of marine mammals in the ocean. In the Arctic,Miksis-Olds developed and deployed low power sampling devices to provide data on the presence of whales [13] and she has a decade-long data set tracking different species of marine mammals in the Bering Sea. [14] Miksis-Olds has also used acoustic methods to track seals in the Bering Sea where she connected the presence or absence of seals with the amount of sea ice. [15] Using hydrophone data from the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty International Monitoring System,Miksis-Olds estimated the biodiversity in the near-field vicinity of three hydrophones. [16] The data are from hydrophones that are part of the system used for monitoring for nuclear explosions and Susan Parks,Miksis-Olds,and Samuel Denes developed a metric that uses sound to assess biodiversity and found correlations between their metric and the number of whale calls around the hydrophones. [16]
Miksis-Olds examines soundscapes in the ocean,particularly the combination of ambient sound and sound produced by people,to define how marine mammals respond to changes in sound [17] and was part of a collaboration that identified an increase in sound levels in the Indian Ocean [18] which can have a negative impact on marine mammals. [19] [20]
During the COVID-19 pandemic,Miksis-Olds and others have been expanding the global network of hydrophones that can track changes in ambient sound in the ocean. [21] [22] Miksis-Olds is leading the development of software that will allow researchers to share and analyze the data being generated by this network of hydrophones. [23] [24] [25] [26]
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