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Jennifer Miksis-Olds

Jennifer Miksis-Olds is an American marine scientist known for her research using acoustics to track marine mammals.

Jennifer Miksis-Olds
Academic background
EducationHarvard University (AB)
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (MS)
University of Rhode Island (PhD)
Academic work
DisciplineBiology
Sub-disciplineMarine biology

Education

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Miksis-Olds received an A.B. in biology from Harvard University (1996), and during this time she volunteered in a primate lab which she credits as her introduction to acoustics.[1] Miksis-Olds has an M.S. in biology from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (2000)[2] and spent time as a guest student at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (1996–2004). She obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Rhode Island in 2006, where she studied the connections between sound and manatees.[3]

Career

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After her graduate work, Miksis-Olds worked at Pennsylvania State University from 2007 until 2016, when she moved to the University of New Hampshire.[4] She is currently the director of the Center for Acoustics Research and Education at the University of New Hampshire.[5]

In 2016, Miksis-Olds was elected a fellow of the Acoustical Society of America,[6]"for contributions to underwater acoustic noise research and the integration of acoustics into marine ecology".

From 2016 to 2018, Miksis-Olds was on the scientific committee of the International Quiet Ocean Experiment,[7] a group of researchers working on ocean soundscapes and how sound impacts marine organisms. Miksis-Olds is also on the board at the Consortium for Ocean Leadership where her term ends in October 2021.[8]

Research

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Miksis-Olds' graduate research characterized the pattern of sound production from manatees[9] and measured sound levels in grassbeds inhabited by manatees which revealed that, all else being equal, manatees opt for grassbeds with lower noise levels.[10] Miksis-Olds' research determined that manatees increase their activity in the presence of sounds similar to boats[11] and they alter their behavior with periods of higher sound levels connected to increased feeding activity.[12]

Miksis-Olds has used sound to track the location of marine mammals in the ocean. In the Arctic, Miksis-Olds developed and deployed low power sampling devices to provide data on the presence of whales[13] and she has a decade-long data set tracking different species of marine mammals in the Bering Sea.[14] Miksis-Olds has also used acoustic methods to track seals in the Bering Sea where she connected the presence or absence of seals with the amount of sea ice.[15] Using hydrophone data from the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty International Monitoring System, Miksis-Olds estimated the biodiversity in the near-field vicinity of three hydrophones.[16] The data are from hydrophones that are part of the system used for monitoring for nuclear explosions and Susan Parks, Miksis-Olds, and Samuel Denes developed a metric that uses sound to assess biodiversity and found correlations between their metric and the number of whale calls around the hydrophones.[16]

Miksis-Olds examines soundscapes in the ocean, particularly the combination of ambient sound and sound produced by people, to define how marine mammals respond to changes in sound[17] and was part of a collaboration that identified an increase in sound levels in the Indian Ocean[18] which can have a negative impact on marine mammals.[19][20]

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Miksis-Olds and others have been expanding the global network of hydrophones that can track changes in ambient sound in the ocean.[21][22] Miksis-Olds is leading the development of software that will allow researchers to share and analyze the data being generated by this network of hydrophones.[23][24][25][26]

Awards and honors

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References

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  1. ^ Dent, Michael L. (2020). "Ask an Acoustician: Jennifer L. Miksis-Olds" (PDF).
  2. ^ Miksis, Jennifer L. (2000). The Use of Heart Rate as a Behavioral Response Measure in Bottlenose Dolphins, Tursiops Truncatus: A Thesis in Biology (M.S.). University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.
  3. ^ Miksis-Olds, Jennifer L. (2006). Manatee response to environmental noise (PhD dissertation). University of Rhode Island. pp. 1–231. ProQuest 05270823.
  4. ^ "Miksis-Olds CV" (PDF).
  5. ^ "jmiksisolds". The Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping. Retrieved May 22, 2021.
  6. ^ a b "Fellows of the Society". Acoustical Society of America. Retrieved May 22, 2021.
  7. ^ "IQOE Science Committee (2016-2018) | International Quiet Ocean Experiment (IQOE)". www.iqoe.org. Retrieved May 23, 2021.
  8. ^ Smith, Leslie. "Board of Trustees". Consortium for Ocean Leadership. Retrieved May 22, 2021.
  9. ^ Miksis-Olds, Jennifer L.; Tyack, Peter L. (2009). "Manatee (Trichechus manatus) vocalization usage in relation to environmental noise levels". The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 125 (3): 1806–1815. Bibcode:2009ASAJ..125.1806M. doi:10.1121/1.3068455. hdl:1912/2740. ISSN 0001-4966. PMID 19275337.
  10. ^ Miksis-Olds, Jennifer L.; Donaghay, Percy L.; Miller, James H.; Tyack, Peter L.; Nystuen, Jeffrey A. (2007). "Noise level correlates with manatee use of foraging habitats". The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 121 (5): 3011–3020. Bibcode:2007ASAJ..121.3011M. doi:10.1121/1.2713555. hdl:1912/2489. ISSN 0001-4966. PMID 17550199. S2CID 1518497.
  11. ^ Miksis-Olds, Jennifer L.; Donaghay, Percy L.; Miller, James H.; Tyack, Peter L.; Reynolds, John E. (2007). "Simulated Vessel Approaches Elicit Differential Responses from Manatees". Marine Mammal Science. 23 (3): 629–649. doi:10.1111/j.1748-7692.2007.00133.x. ISSN 1748-7692.
  12. ^ Miksis-Olds, Jennifer L.; Wagner, Tyler (2011). "Behavioral response of manatees to variations in environmental sound levels". Marine Mammal Science. 27 (1): 130–148. doi:10.1111/j.1748-7692.2010.00381.x.
  13. ^ Miksis-Olds, Jennifer L.; Nystuen, Jeffrey A.; Parks, Susan E. (2010). "Detecting marine mammals with an adaptive sub-sampling recorder in the Bering Sea". Applied Acoustics. 71 (11): 1087–1092. doi:10.1016/j.apacoust.2010.05.010.
  14. ^ Seger, Kerri D.; Miksis-Olds, Jennifer L. (2020). "A decade of marine mammal acoustical presence and habitat preference in the Bering Sea". Polar Biology. 43 (10): 1549–1569. doi:10.1007/s00300-020-02727-x. ISSN 0722-4060.
  15. ^ Miksis-Olds, Jennifer (2011-12-01). "Seasonal Trends in Acoustic Detection of Ribbon Seal (Histriophoca fasciata) Vocalizations in the Bering Sea". Aquatic Mammals. 37 (4): 464–471. doi:10.1578/AM.37.4.2011.464.
  16. ^ a b Parks, Susan E.; Miksis-Olds, Jennifer L.; Denes, Samuel L. (2014). "Assessing marine ecosystem acoustic diversity across ocean basins". Ecological Informatics. 21: 81–88. doi:10.1016/j.ecoinf.2013.11.003.
  17. ^ Miksis-Olds, Jennifer L.; Martin, Bruce; Tyack, Peter L. (2018). "Exploring the ocean through soundscapes" (PDF). Acoustics Today. Vol. 14, no. 1.
  18. ^ Miksis-Olds, Jennifer L.; Bradley, David L.; Maggie Niu, Xiaoyue (2013). "Decadal trends in Indian Ocean ambient sound". The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 134 (5): 3464–3475. Bibcode:2013ASAJ..134.3464M. doi:10.1121/1.4821537. ISSN 0001-4966. PMID 24180757.
  19. ^ Duarte, Carlos M.; Chapuis, Lucille; Collin, Shaun P.; Costa, Daniel P.; Devassy, Reny P.; Eguiluz, Victor M.; Erbe, Christine; Gordon, Timothy A. C.; Halpern, Benjamin S.; Harding, Harry R.; Havlik, Michelle N.; Meekan, Mark; Merchant, Nathan D.; Miksis-Olds, Jennifer L.; Parsons, Miles; Predragovic, Milica; Radford, Andrew N.; Radford, Craig A.; Simpson, Stephen D.; Slabbekoorn, Hans; Staaterman, Erica; Van Opzeeland, Ilse C.; Winderen, Jana; Zhang, Xiangliang; Juanes, Francis (2021-02-05). "The soundscape of the Anthropocene ocean". Science. 371 (6529): eaba4658. doi:10.1126/science.aba4658. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 33542110. S2CID 231808113.
  20. ^ Polidoro, Joseph. "A Few Fixes Could Cut Noise Pollution That Hurts Ocean Animals". Scientific American. Retrieved 2021-05-22.
  21. ^ Tyack, Peter L.; Miksis-Olds, Jennifer; Ausubel, Jesse; Urban Jr., Edward R (March 4, 2021). "Measuring Ambient Ocean Sound During the COVID-19 Pandemic". Eos. Retrieved 2021-05-24.
  22. ^ "Year of the quiet ocean: Emerging ocean listening network will study seas uniquely quieted by COVID". EurekAlert!. Retrieved 2021-05-22.
  23. ^ "UNH researchers develop software to monitor ocean soundscape especially during COVID-19". EurekAlert!. Retrieved 2021-05-22.
  24. ^ Gill, Victoria (2021-04-09). "Ocean noise: Study to measure the oceans' 'year of quiet'". BBC News. Retrieved 2021-05-22.
  25. ^ "Pandemic made 2020 'the year of the quiet ocean', say scientists". the Guardian. 2021-04-17. Retrieved 2021-05-22.
  26. ^ "Quieter Oceans Offer a Rare Chance to Listen |" (Press release). 2021-04-21. Retrieved 2021-05-22.
  27. ^ "2011 Young Investigator Award Recipients". Office of Naval Research. 2011.
  28. ^ "Penn State marine bioacoustics researcher receives presidential recognition | Penn State University". news.psu.edu. Retrieved 2021-05-22.
  29. ^ "Sigma Xi Members to Receive Presidential Early Career Awards". www.sigmaxi.org. Retrieved 2021-05-23.
  30. ^ "Weber and Miksis-Olds Consecutively Win the Medwin Prize". The Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping. 2017-01-12. Retrieved 2021-05-22.
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  • Making Ambient Noise Trends Accessible (MANTA) - software to examine soundscapes in the ocean
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