Aquatic Animals

The photo Dr. Randall Davis points to is comical. A Weddell seal seems to look questioningly at the camera while a nearly full-sized Sony camcorder in plastic housing is strapped to its head.

There are a multitude of ways in which to study how humans are affecting the ocean and the marine life within it - sound happens to be the way Texas A&M University at Galveston marine biology professor and bioacoustician Dr. Ana Širović measures such interactions.