PALAOA
PALAOA ( P erenni AL A coustic O bservatory in the A ntarctic Ocean , dt. Year-round acoustic observatory in the Antarctic Ocean , also hawaiian for whale tooth ivory ) is the name of a since 2006 by the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Center for Polar - and marine research (AWI) in Bremerhaven in the Antarctic on the Ekström Ice Shelf operated research station , around 25 kilometers north of the German Neumayer station . Here, around the clock by underwater microphones or hydrophones and sensors floating, which thick through holes at 100 meters the ice sheet were positioned, acoustic signals from the underwater world of the Weddell Sea recorded.
Trivia
The AWI Oceanic Acoustics working group supported the production of the radio play In darkness let me dwell - songs from the darkness by the duo Merzouga (“ Radio Play of the Month ” December 2016). It deals with the departure of the AWI research ship Polarstern in 2016 in the Antarctic on the centenary of Ernest Shackleton's failed endurance expedition and links the two events.
See also
Web links
- multimedia.awi.de: polar sounds
- deutschlandfunk.de , Research News , February 27, 2017, Sophia Wagner: The Sound of the South Polar Sea
Individual evidence
- ↑ merriam-webster.com: Definition of palaoa (March 4, 2017); palaoa in Hawaiian Dictionaries
- ↑ awi.de , January 13, 2011: Worldwide unique underwater listening station PALAOA celebrates its five year birthday - live sounds of seals and whales from the Antarctic (March 4, 2017)
- ↑ a b deutschlandfunk.de : radio play (March 4, 2017)
- ↑ awi.de , Oceanic Acoustics (March 4, 2017)
- ↑ deutschlandfunk.de , March 4, 2017: Radio play of the month (March 4, 2017)