The Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil spill starting in April 2010 was the largest marine oil spill in history. Arguably, some of the greatest impact was absorbed by the marine animals in the area. Fortunately, three years before the spill The Littoral Acoustic Demonstration Center (LADC) had conducted two-week visual and acoustic surveys of marine mammal activities near the DWH spill site, giving LADC a unique pre-spill baseline dataset of marine mammal activity and anthropogenic soundscapes near the oil spill site. LADC has returned to those same survey sites to repeat underwater acoustic recordings, gathering data to support comparisons of pre- and post-spill estimates of the marine mammal populations in the vicinity of the event based on their acoustic activity. These results including noise analyses for the same areas will be presented by Dr. Juliette W. Ioup from the University of New Orleans in a keynote address titled "Underwater Acoustic Noise Effects On Marine Mammals in the Northern Gulf of Mexico" at INCE's NOISE-CON online conference on November 19, 2020 at 11 am ET.

In this episode of The Noise News, a podcast brought to you by NNI, our host Eoin King is joined by Dana Lodico, Senior Consultant of Illingworth & Rodkin, Inc. and David Bowen, Principal Consultant of Acentech Incorporated

Fourteen-year-old Nora Keegan from Calgary, Alberta is one of three plenary speakers at The Institute of Noise Control Engineering’s (INCE-USA) NOISE-CON from November 16-20, 2020.

When was the last time a great meal was spoiled for you by the deafening din of restaurant noise? Did you mention it on your Yelp review?

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The latest issue of NCEJ (Volume 68, Number 4) features a review of "BioClimatic Double-Skin Facades" by Mary Ben Bonham. Joe Cuschieri wrote the review. Click through to the NCEJ Book Reviews page.