Journalist Maurice Tamman wrote an excellent, widely published article, Pandemic offers scientists unprecedented chance to hear oceans as they once were, about the International Quiet Ocean Experiment (IQOE) for Reuters.
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Eleven years ago, environmental scientist Jesse Ausubel dreamed aloud in a commencement speech: What if scientists could record the sounds of the ocean in the days before propeller-driven ships and boats spanned the globe?
even picked up by the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2020/06/08/us/08reuters-health-coronavirus-climate-research-insight.html
and in the hard copy edition of the Washington Post.
The 2009 Dalhousie University Commencement Address to which it refers is posted here: https://phe.rockefeller.edu/news/2009/11/30/son-et-lumiere-exciting-updates/, published on 23 November 2009 by the monthly science magazine, SEED, as Broadening the Scope of Global Change to Include Illumination and Noise.
The 5th IQOE Newsletter is here.
A vivid set of 2019 articles about the oceans authored by Maurice Tamman and Co.: Maurice Tamman, Matthew Green, Mari Saito, Sarah Slobin and Maryanne Murray – Reuters: Ocean shock: The climate crisis beneath the waves
A good 2019 article in German about ocean sound by Nicola Jones that mentions our work: Das Streben nach leiseren Meeren.