- 428
- Episodes
- 12
- Transcribed
- 64
- Ratings
- Bi-weekly
- Cadence
- 2019
- First episode
About PNAS Science Sessions
Welcome to Science Sessions, the PNAS podcast program. Listen to brief conversations with cutting-edge researchers, Academy members, and policymakers as they discuss topics relevant to today's scientific community. Learn the behind-the-scenes story of work published in PNAS, plus a broad range of scientific news about discoveries that affect the world around us.
- Publisher
- PNAS
- Category
- science
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 6 Jun 2019
- Latest episode
- 5 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
12 of 428 episodes have a transcript.
5 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Detecting blue whales using fiber optic cables
21 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Environmental hazards near schools
31 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
Getting to the root of the rhizosphere
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Detecting blue whales using fiber optic cables
Published 5 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] But the nice thing about our method is that we don't need to tag the whale. We use simply the fiber optic cable and then we estimate the swimming speed and we can estimate the depth of the animal. And of course, especially for tooted whales, they make sounds that vocalize in a very high frequency range. I hope that this method can expand our ability to monitor also tooted whales and other marine mammals that are close to the seabed. And of course, in addition to environmental monitoring of marine life, there are a lot of other potential applications related to security, protection of marine infrastructure and ship traffic, earthquakes, explosions, etc. […]
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- Martin Landrø
- Matthew Kraft
- Molly Hanlon
- Oumeng Zhang
- Reinaldo Alcalde
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.4 / 5
- 45 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.3 / 5
- 19 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 68 / 100
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- Quality
- 98
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 92
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