Up to date media coverage of research in the lab can be found here.

  1. “Whales, extinction and the sounds of underwater noise pollution,” Sherrill Sutherland, Jenn Thornhill Verma, The Decibel/Globe and Mail. (November 3, 2025).
    https://www.theglobeandmail.com/podcasts/the-decibel/article-right-whales-north-atlantic-extinction-underwater-noise-pollution/
  2. “Humpback whales are blowing ‘bubble rings’ at boats. Are they trying to communicate?,” Melissa Hobson/Sarah Lewin Frasier, Scientific American. (June 19, 2025).
    https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/humpback-whales-are-blowing-bubble-rings-at-boats-are-they-trying-to/
  3. Evan Bush, NBC News. (November 22, 2024).
    https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/researchers-capture-baleen-whales-first-time-study-hearing-rcna181092
  4. “Brainwave experiment shows minke whales have ultrasonic hearing,” Jeremy Hsu, New Scientist. (November 21, 2024).
    https://www.newscientist.com/article/2457305-brainwave-experiment-shows-minke-whales-have-ultrasonic-hearing/
  5. Smithsonian Magazine/. (October 2, 2024).
    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-did-two-bowhead-whales-that-were-60-miles-apart-sync-their-diving-180985132/
  6. Randi Richardson, NBC News. (October 1, 2024).
    https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/gray-whale-foraging-eating-drone-footage-rcna173105
  7. “Whales may be communicating across vast distances,” Popular Science. (September 24, 2024).
    https://www.popsci.com/environment/whales-may-be-communicating-across-vast-distances/
  8. “Research on drone tagging of large whales.” (2023).
    https://www.cnn.com/videos/business/2023/07/18/drones-track-whales-ocean-alliance-lon-orig.cnn
    https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/video/gloucester-based-ocean-alliance-tags-endangered-whales-using-snotbot-drone-for-first-time/
  9. (April 2023).
    https://www.newswire.com/news/ocean-alliance-announces-first-ever-successful-drone-based-tagging-of-22004611
  10. “Greenland’s melting ice could be changing our oceans. Just ask the whales,” Lauren Sommer, NPR. (April 18, 2023).
    https://www.npr.org/2023/04/18/1170547217/greenlands-melting-ice-could-be-changing-our-oceans-just-ask-the-whales
  11. “Can Eavesdropping in the Ocean Help Conservation?,” Sarah H. Griffin, Syracsue Stories/Syracuse University. (April 4, 2023).
    https://www.syracuse.edu/stories/susan-parks-bioacoustics-conservation/
  12. “Southern right whale moms may look for quiet place to raise babies” (July 4, 2022) washingtonpost.org
  13. “Traffic noise stresses out frogs, but some have adapted” (November 21, 2018) Sciencedaily.org
  14. “Biologists gain new insights into surface, acoustic behaviors of right whales” , Rob Enslin (October 25, 2018)Phys.org
  15. “The people who listen to whales”Chris Baraniuk, (November 20, 2017) BBC Blue Planet II
  16. “The 50-Ton Patient” Genevieve Rajewski, (July 27, 2017) Tufts Now
  17. “Singing For Their Supper” Amy Manley (May 4, 2016) Syracuse University News
  18. “Wolves Have Local Howl Accents” Jason Goldman (April 5, 2016) Scientific American
  19. “Syracuse Researcher Finds Wolf Subspecies Have Unique Howl Patterns” March 25, 2016, Syracuse University News, by Elizabeth Droge-Young
  20. “Canines Communicate With Their Own ‘Howling Dialects,’ Study Finds” February 8, 2016 Huffpost Science, by Nina Golgowski Other sources: Science World Report, Phys.Org, IFLScience
  21. “Right Whales May Boast Unique Voices” May 18, 2015 Nature World News, by Jenna Iacurci. Other sources: BBC News, Science World Report, Phys.Org, Science|AAAS, ScienceBlog, IFLScience
  22. “Syracuse Student Receives International Research Grant” January 5, 2015 Syracuse University The College of Arts and Sciences News, by Amy Manley
  23. “Syracuse Biologist Reveals How Whales May ‘Sing’ for Their Supper” December 16, 2014 Syracuse University The College of Arts and Sciences News, by Amy Manley, Other sources: Phys.org
  24. “Sound Off” October 14, 2014 Aeon, by Peter Brannen
  25. “The Whale Savers” October 12, 2014 Christian Science Monitor, by Doug Struck
  26. “Will Atlantic Ocean Oil Prospecting Silence Endangered Right Whales?” August 9, 2014 National Geographic, by Doug Struck
  27. “Meet Susan Parks” August 5, 2014 SU Advance
  28. “Endangered Whales are Breeding in a Busy Shipping Lane” March 26, 2014 Futurity, by Rob Enslin
  29. “Endangered Right Whale Breeding Ground Amid Shipping Lane Surveyed With Acoustic Monitoring Devices” March 26, 2014 Nature World News
  30. “SU Biologists Use Sound to Identify Breeding Grounds of Endangered Whales” March 25, 2014 Syracuse University The College of Arts and Sciences News and Syracuse University News, by Rob Enslin Other sources: Phys.org, Science Codex
  31. “Eavesdropping on Ecosystems” February 21, 2014 Science, by Kelly Servick
  32. “Whales and the Pursuit of of Oil: When Scientists and Big Oil Team Up” January 20, 2014 The Weather Channel, by Laura Dattaro
  33. “Humpback Whale Crittercam Video Reveals Bottom-Feeding Activity” October 7, 2013National Geographic, by Helen Fields
  34. “Research Reveals Bottom Feeding Techniques of Humpback Whales in Stellwagen Bank Sanctuary” September 26, 2013 Science Daily
  35. “Graduate Student Studying Ecological Impacts of Increased Noise on Animals” August 27, 2013 Penn State News, by Marina Burka
  36. “A whale, a Tag, a Mission” August 20, 2013 The New York Times, by Kelly Slivka
  37. “Research Snapshot: Acoustic behavior of North Atlantic right whales” August 1, 2012 Syracuse University Magazine, Summer 2012, Vol 29, No 2
  38. “Syracuse University Professor’s Research During Shipping Silence After 9/11 Helps Link Noise, Stress in Endangered Right Whales” March 13, 2012 The Post-Standard, by Kathleen Poliquin
  39. “Using 9/11 Pause, Study Finds Shipping Noise May Stress Whales” February 8, 2012 Greenwire, by Paul Voosen
  40. “Unplanned 9/11 Analysis Links Noise, Whale Stress” February 8, 2012 Wall Street Journal (AP), by Jay Lindsay
  41. “Shhh…Ocean Noises Stress Out Whales” February 7, 2012 ScienceNOW, by Helen Fields
  42. “The Noisy Ocean and its Consequences” August 19, 2011 Public Radio International: Living on Earth, by Ike Sriskandarajah
  43. “Say What?! Whales Shout Over Noise Pollution” July 7, 2010 MSNBC, by LiveScience
  44. “Right Whales Yell Over the Ocean Din” July 7, 2010 New Scientist, by Michael Marshall
  45. “A Push for Quieter Ships” June 18, 2010 Science Magazine, by David Malakoff
  46. “(Don’t) Pump Up the Volume: Sound Waves Silence Whales’ Song” November 18, 2008Scientific American, by Brendan Borrell
  47. “Mystery ‘Gunshot’ Sound is Whale Threat” November 6, 2008 MSNBC, by Clara Moskowitz for LiveScience
  48. “The Ingenious Way Humpback Whales Hunt in Pitch-Black Waters at Night” Huffington Post, by James Cave
  49. “New Study Links Whale Stress to Ship Noise” Syracuse University The College of Arts and Sciences News, by Judy Holmes