Event #2

 

I was able to attend Professor Vesna's guest lecture for the Monash University in Australia on May 2. This was a super fun zoom event to attend because it was an international event. There were students from all over like Australia and the USA of course, but also from China and other countries. Professor Vesna's lecture was based around noise pollution in the ocean and meteorite pollution from outer space.

Professor Vesna first talked about noise pollution in the ocean and that this type of pollution is caused by ships and their motors or other forms of sonar arrays. Fish in the ocean communicate primarily through sonar which is being disturbed by man made ships. The motors of the ships and artificial sonar sources make it very difficult for fish to communicated, locate one another, stray away from being prey, and also interferes with growth and reproduction. The biggest problem with noise pollution is the disturbance of growth and reproduction as that hurts not only the fish's life but also our lives as we consume fish, but if the fish we catch aren't producing enough that can endanger the species or we has to cut that fish out of our diet as one less food source. 

Professor Vesna also talk about her involvement with the noise aquarium which has amazing augmented reality technology to really immerse the viewers experience and help them understand how humans are interfering with noise pollution. We listening to a short clip of sonar sounds in the ocean and you can hear how noisy the ships are and how it can be difficult for the fish to live with this interruption.

The last thing Professor Vesna talked about was her involvement in the group, Alien Star Dust. This group was super interesting to me because it deals with the vastness of space and how exploding meteorites can harm Earth. Over 100 tons of star dust falls on Earth every year, according to the Natural History Museum's star exhibit in Vienna, Italy. Noise pollution also comes from these exploding meteorites which is festinating as they blow up so fall away from Earth, but there impact is so large we can pick up the different sonar sounds. 


Sources:

“Augmented Reality.” ALIEN STAR DUST, alienstardust.com/ar/.

“EVENTS.” NOISE AQUARIUM, noiseaquarium.com/events-2/.


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