A Journey Through Underwater Sound, A Window into the Ocean | Green Market

About this Programme

This talk will explore underwater sound and why it is a window into the global ocean, which covers 70% of Earth's surface area. Sounds can help us understand the ocean in multiple aspects, including its biodiversity, resources, and physical properties. It also reveals insights into the ocean's interaction with land masses, other water bodies, and polar glaciers, which are currently melting at an accelerated rate under the effect of climate change and leading to sea level rise, sound is therefore a tool to understand our ocean's health, and moving forward, how we can sustainably use our ocean. Join us to HEAR more!

This programme is targetted at adults, including those aged 50 and above.

Please note:

This programme will also be livestreamed via Zoom. Participants who wish to attend online should sign up for a Zoom ticket. Participants who wish to attend onsite should sign up for a Standard ticket. 

Please note that presentation slides may be available during or after the programme, depending on the programme. Where applicable, only participants who attend the programme can have access to the slides via instructions given during the programme.

About the Speaker

Hari is a Senior Research Fellow at NUS working on underwater sound processing and machine learning. These techniques are used in a range of underwater applications from biodiversity or defense-related scenarios in shallow tropical waters infested with snapping shrimp noise, to polar ice sheets where glacier melt noise dominates the soundscape. From 2019, Hari is focusing on the acoustics of melting ice. He undertook field campaigns in 2023 to Svalbard and 2024 to Antarctica to study this problem, and was a Visiting Postdoctoral fellow at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography during 2019-2021. Hari also researches machine-learning based quantification of marine mammals in Singapore waters. He is the Chief Editor of the Science communication and outreach magazine IEEE Earthzine and serves on the IEEE Oceanic Engineering society Executive committee. In 2019, he was awarded the IEEE OES YP-BOOST award which aims to encourage young professionals to participate in the society leadership. He is helping with OES efforts on the UN Decade of Ocean Sciences, and is the chair of the Singapore AUV Challenge, the largest underwater robotics competition in Asia.

About the Organisation

The National University of Singapore (NUS) is an Institute of Higher Learning and Singapore's flagship university.

Find out more about NUS here: https://nus.edu.sg/

About Green Market

Green Market is NLB’s annual event that celebrates sustainable living and connects the community to green groups and initiatives they can support. This year’s theme, The Sea-cret Edition, dives deep to explore the wonders of the sea and embrace our interconnections with it, urging understanding and action to safeguard its fragile beauty.

From 8-9 June 2024, come have a whale of a time at Central Public Library. Get hooked on the ocean with our lineup of family-fun programmes, booths, storytellings, digital activities and more, brought to you in collaboration with local blue partners.

Can’t make the date? Join us instead from 25 May for our Green Market Challenge and other leadup programmes at selected libraries, and “wet” your appetite for all things marine.

Explore our collection of Green Market programmes here!  👉👉👉 https://bit.ly/nlbgreeenmarket2024 

Find out more about Green Market here! 👉👉👉 https://go.gov.sg/green-market

Important Notice

This programme is open to members of the National Library Board, Singapore.

Please ensure you have your myLibrary username on hand before proceeding with the registration. If you do not have a myLibrary username, you can create one here: https://account.nlb.gov.sg

Host or Publisher GoLibrary | National Library Board, Singapore