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Allison Riney's avatar

Stop it I’m going to end up following in your footsteps. Third career, here I come! Seriously though, I’m over here refraining from sending you every whale article I read (one recently involved acoustic buoys).

I’m FASCINATED!

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Fabienne Mannherz's avatar

Hahahaha, what kind of acoustic buoy was it? 😅😅

I had to ask 🤣

Well, if I account for my very first vocational training, this is my third career. 😜

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Allison Riney's avatar

It is the kind that leads them out of the river! Don’t kid yourself - I was absolutely looking for that detail, knowing you were doing some dive thing. But her name is accordion!

https://nypost.com/2025/02/11/us-news/endangered-whale-and-newborn-calf-make-rare-winter-visit-to-nyc-waters-sign-of-hope/?utm_campaign=iphone_nyp&utm_source=pasteboard_app

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Mark Meier's avatar

Thank you, thank you, thank you. I have a very limited understanding of it all but reading your excitement and the way you explained it, I was hooked. There is so much I know and don't know. Sound and water temperature. Density of the water. How many water animals use sound to navigate and communicate. How humans know nothing of what we do there to the sea life. I was never smart enough for all the schooling but my interests never stopped. I think I found a friend on the edge of her PhD and I have a front row seat to your adventures. Thank you again for the time you take out of your learning and family to teach us. 🥹❤️🫂📄🖋️💌

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Fabienne Mannherz's avatar

You know quite a lot - yes, temperature, salinity, bathymetry, all of this affects sound propagation!

Look at you!

Well, I think I should roll up my sleeves to share some insights 😍

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Nur Nadar's avatar

I love the picture of the beluga whale boy band 🐳

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Fabienne Mannherz's avatar

Yeah, that was a cool one ☺️

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Nur Nadar's avatar

Not enough walruses though

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