last call lectures: underwater eavesdropping - how scientists decode whale conversation

last call lectures presents: underwater eavesdropping: how scientists decode whale conversation

somewhere in the deep, whales are talking. clicks, whistles, and songs that travel for miles through the dark. but what are they actually saying? this month, sonny schoenhoft takes us beneath the surface into the strange and beautiful science of listening to whales, and the work of trying to crack a language that evolved a world away from our own.

sonny lives in the world where marine biology meets the puzzle of communication. expect the tools scientists use to record and decode whale sound, what we've figured out so far, and the big open question hanging over all of it: how close are we really to understanding another species?

expect a 45 minute talk, then small group discussion, then open q&a. come solo, leave with new people and a head full of the ocean.