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Frequency Synchronization by Blue Whales at Pioneer Seamount
JASA publication and resulting media coverage.
FREQUENCY SYNCHRONIZATION OF BLUE WHALE CALLS NEAR PIONEER SEAMOUNT
by
Michael Hoffman, Newell Garfield, and Roger Bland
Click
HERE
for abstract or full article.
Media Coverage
Monday August 2, 2010:
Press release by Elaine Bible.
August 2, 2010: "Study finds blue whales have perfect pitch",
Santa Cruz Sentinal
August 2, 2010: "Study finds blue whales have perfect pitch, but research raises more questions than it answers"
San Jose Mercury News
August 2, 2010: "Blue Whales Align the Pitch of Their Songs With Extreme Accuracy, Study Finds,"
Science Daily
August 9, 2010, NBC Bay Area:
http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local-beat/Interpreting-Whale-Talk-100303069.html
August 9, 2010: Phone interview by Jeannie Lynch of ABC News (radio).
August 8 and 9, 2010: Interview aired on KCBS (AM 740), every two hours.
August 9, 2010, KTVU-SF (FOX)
News at 5pm.
August 9, 2010, KTVU-SF (FOX):
video link
August 9, 2010, KTVU-LA (FOX)
Fox 11 Ten O'Clock News
August 9, 2010, KTTV-LA (FOX)
Fox 11 Ten O'Clock News
August 9, 2010, "Recording the blues might explain whale speak," SF Chronicle:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/08/09/BARN1ENQJ2.DTL&tsp=1
August 9, 2010, LiveScience:
http://www.livescience.com/animals/blue-whales-perfect-pitch-100809.html
August 9, 2010, Scientific American podcast:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=blue-whales-synchronize-song-pitch-10-08-09
August 23, 2010, Campus Memo
http://www.sfsu.edu/~news/cmemo/fall10/aug23news.htm
Pitch-perfect cetacians: Acoustical specialist and Professor of Physics Roger Bland was featured . . . .