Editorial Comment:
The acoustic recordings of eastern Australian humpback whales by the Technical Director of The Oceania Project - Mark Francis Franklin - have been recognised and archived in perputuity by the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia.
A sample of Mark's field recordings is being presented and featured by Tessa Elieff of NFSA for World Wildlife Day, see: Protecting Wildlife Through Sound.
The incredible complexity and richness of the songs of the eastern Australian humpback whales are now availble in an Audio CD produced by Mark Francis Franklin, see: Songlines: Songs of the Eastern Australian Humpback whales. The CD comes with a twelve page information booklet.
Over the next three years we will be redeveloping The Oceania Project's website. What we are planning and how you can help with this work is fully explained at Humpback Whales - Spread the Story
Healthy oceans are critical for life on this planet. They provide the food we eat, the oxygen we breathe and their continued health depends on us. 4Ocean employ captains and cleanup crews from Florida to Bali that are cleaning our oceans and coastlines seven days a week. In addition, we host beach cleanups, offshore cleanups and worldwide cleanups to make the greatest impact.
MARK FRANKLIN - THE OCEANIA PROJECT
An accomplished recording engineer, Mark Franklin's focus turned to underwater whale recordings in 1992. His parents are marine scientists Trish and Wally Franklin, founders of the Oceania Project (1988), a not-for-profit research organisation dedicated to the conservation and protection of whales, dolphins and their habitats. This playlist presents two whale recordings acoustically treated and a single unprocessed original recording of Australia's great white whale, Migaloo.
The Roger Revelle Commemorative Lecture Series was created by the Ocean Studies Board of the National Academies in honor of Roger Revelle to highlight the important links between ocean sciences and public policy. Phillip J. Clapham, the seventeenth annual lecturer, spoke on April 27, 2016, at the National Academy of Sciences.
Editors Note: Dr Phil Clapham supervised the Humpback Whale study undertaken by Dr Trish Franklin in Hervey Bay.
