Up to date media coverage of research in the lab can be found here.
- “When experts tagged diving whales, they discovered something astonishing about their song,” Magda Patynska, Discover Wildlife. (August 11, 2026).
https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/marine-animals/humpback-whale-song-diving
Other coverage: Geographical, CP24, ECO Magazine, Phys.org, Syracuse University News - “When ships are nearby, sperm whales change their calls,” National Geographic. (July 22, 2026).
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/sperm-whale-communication-near-ships - “Scientists captured female sperm whales on video working together during a birth to protect the calf,” Adithi Ramakrishnan, Associated Press. (March 26, 2026).
https://apnews.com/article/sperm-whale-birth-video-drone-ad85d8ad8454d7bd25807304699d3c74 - “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/ - “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/ - “Researchers capture baleen whales for the first time to study their hearing,” Evan Bush, NBC News. (November 22, 2024).
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/researchers-capture-baleen-whales-first-time-study-hearing-rcna181092 - “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/ - “How Did Two Bowhead Whales That Were 60 Miles Apart Sync Their Diving?,” Smithsonian Magazine/Hakai Magazine. (October 2, 2024).
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-did-two-bowhead-whales-that-were-60-miles-apart-sync-their-diving-180985132/ - “Drone video of gray whales offers new insight into how they eat,” Randi Richardson, NBC News. (October 1, 2024).
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/gray-whale-foraging-eating-drone-footage-rcna173105 - “Whales may be communicating across vast distances,” Popular Science. (September 24, 2024).
https://www.popsci.com/environment/whales-may-be-communicating-across-vast-distances/ - “Silent Sea,” Dallas Taylor, Twenty Thousand Hertz podcast. (May 22, 2024).
https://www.20k.org/episodes/silentsea - “Our Blue and Green World,” Wild Kratts, PBS Kids. (April 1, 2024).
https://gpb.org/television/show/wild-kratts/special/wild-kratts-our-blue-and-green-world - “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/ - “Ocean Alliance Announces First-Ever Successful Drone-Based Tagging of Endangered Blue and Fin Whales,” Ocean Alliance press release, Newswire. (April 19, 2023).
https://www.newswire.com/news/ocean-alliance-announces-first-ever-successful-drone-based-tagging-of-22004611 - “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 - “Can Eavesdropping in the Ocean Help Conservation?,” Sarah H. Griffin, Syracuse Stories/Syracuse University. (April 4, 2023).
https://www.syracuse.edu/stories/susan-parks-bioacoustics-conservation/ - “Southern right whale moms may look for quiet place to raise babies” Lela Nargi (July 4, 2022) The Washington Post (via The Spokesman-Review)
- “Scientists Excited About Humpback Whales Singing In Waters Off New York City,” CBS New York. (May 2021).
https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/humpback-whales-singing-new-york-city-waters
Other coverage: ABC7 New York - “Rare footage shows endangered whales ‘hugging’,” Sarah Gibbens, National Geographic. (May 7, 2021).
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/rare-footage-shows-endangered-north-atlantic-right-whales-hug - “Traffic noise stresses out frogs, but some have adapted” (November 21, 2018) Sciencedaily.org
- “Biologists gain new insights into surface, acoustic behaviors of right whales” , Rob Enslin (October 25, 2018)Phys.org
- “The people who listen to whales”Chris Baraniuk, (November 20, 2017) BBC Blue Planet II
- “The 50-Ton Patient” Genevieve Rajewski, (July 27, 2017) Tufts Now
- “Singing For Their Supper” Amy Manley (May 4, 2016) Syracuse University News
- “Wolves Have Local Howl Accents” Jason Goldman (April 5, 2016) Scientific American
- “Syracuse Researcher Finds Wolf Subspecies Have Unique Howl Patterns” March 25, 2016, Syracuse University News, by Elizabeth Droge-Young
- “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
- “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
- “Syracuse Student Receives International Research Grant” January 5, 2015 Syracuse University The College of Arts and Sciences News, by Amy Manley
- “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
- “Sound Off” October 14, 2014 Aeon, by Peter Brannen
- “The Whale Savers” October 12, 2014 Christian Science Monitor, by Doug Struck
- “Will Atlantic Ocean Oil Prospecting Silence Endangered Right Whales?” August 9, 2014 National Geographic, by Doug Struck
- “Meet Susan Parks” August 5, 2014 SU Advance
- “Endangered Whales are Breeding in a Busy Shipping Lane” March 26, 2014 Futurity, by Rob Enslin
- “Endangered Right Whale Breeding Ground Amid Shipping Lane Surveyed With Acoustic Monitoring Devices” March 26, 2014 Nature World News
- “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
- “Eavesdropping on Ecosystems” February 21, 2014 Science, by Kelly Servick
- “Whales and the Pursuit of Oil: When Scientists and Big Oil Team Up” January 20, 2014 The Weather Channel, by Laura Dattaro
- “Humpback Whale Crittercam Video Reveals Bottom-Feeding Activity” October 7, 2013National Geographic, by Helen Fields
- “Research Reveals Bottom Feeding Techniques of Humpback Whales in Stellwagen Bank Sanctuary” September 26, 2013 Science Daily
- “Graduate Student Studying Ecological Impacts of Increased Noise on Animals” August 27, 2013 Penn State News, by Marina Burka
- “A whale, a Tag, a Mission” August 20, 2013 The New York Times, by Kelly Slivka
- “Research Snapshot: Acoustic behavior of North Atlantic right whales” August 1, 2012 Syracuse University Magazine, Summer 2012, Vol 29, No 2
- “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
- “Using 9/11 Pause, Study Finds Shipping Noise May Stress Whales” February 8, 2012 Greenwire, by Paul Voosen
- “Unplanned 9/11 Analysis Links Noise, Whale Stress” February 8, 2012 Wall Street Journal (AP), by Jay Lindsay
- “Shhh…Ocean Noises Stress Out Whales” February 7, 2012 ScienceNOW, by Helen Fields
- “The Noisy Ocean and its Consequences” August 19, 2011 Public Radio International: Living on Earth, by Ike Sriskandarajah
- “Say What?! Whales Shout Over Noise Pollution” July 7, 2010 MSNBC, by LiveScience
- “Right Whales Yell Over the Ocean Din” July 7, 2010 New Scientist, by Michael Marshall
- “A Push for Quieter Ships” June 18, 2010 Science Magazine, by David Malakoff
- “(Don’t) Pump Up the Volume: Sound Waves Silence Whales’ Song” November 18, 2008Scientific American, by Brendan Borrell
- “Mystery ‘Gunshot’ Sound is Whale Threat” November 6, 2008 MSNBC, by Clara Moskowitz for LiveScience
- “The Ingenious Way Humpback Whales Hunt in Pitch-Black Waters at Night” Huffington Post, by James Cave
- “New Study Links Whale Stress to Ship Noise” Syracuse University The College of Arts and Sciences News, by Judy Holmes