The Arctic Ocean is full of sounds—sea ice cracking, beluga whales calling, and ships moving through newly opened waters.
Now, researchers at MIT Lincoln Laboratory are building a low-cost sensor network that could turn this underwater cacophony into a way of monitoring a rapidly changing Arctic—without requiring people to venture onto the ice constantly.
The challenge is that these sounds can be difficult to separate. When sea ice fractures, the movement releases…
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