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Different international research projects have been set up to address several of these issues by studying the effect of sound on the behavior of marine mammals. The aim of such ‘behavioral response studies’ is to try to understand how and why marine mammals respond to various sound stimuli. These studies are badly needed in order to establish regulations and guidelines to mitigate the impact of man-made sound on marine life. Many of the sounds that you will hear in this project have been recorded during such behavioral response studies. In these experiments, the effect of sonar sound on killer whales and pilot whales is studied. What we find is that killer whales and pilot whales respond to sonar sounds amongst others by changing the calls that they make. The communication of killer whales and pilot whales is still poorly understood. While we know for some species the general context in which sounds are made (reproduction, contact calls for finding each other) many of the calls remain a mystery to us. To properly understand the implications of these responses, we need to know more about why and when animals make specific calls. This process is very challenging especially for vocal species such as killer whales and pilot whales. Source: [http://whale.fm/science Science], retrieved oct. 14 2013  +
Collect noise data and allow users and others to visualize data and compare. This application was implemented with the The EveryAware platform. This platform has been explicitly designed to support subjective impressions in conjunction with sensor data acquisition by introducing a extendable data concept. A central server efficiently collects, analyses and visualizes data sent from the arbitrary sources  +
By watching these worms lay eggs, you’re helping to collect valuable data about genetics that will assist medical research by helping us understand how the brain works and how genes affect behaviour.  +
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According to the official [https://www.zooniverse.org/about about] page (15/10/2013), the Zooniverse and the suite of projects it contains is produced, maintained and developed by the Citizen Science Alliance. The member institutions of the CSA work with many academic and other partners around the world to produce projects that use the efforts and ability of volunteers to help scientists and researchers deal with the flood of data that confronts them.  +, The Zooniverse provides a highly flexible framework to support and host citizen science projects, as well as a committed and enthusiastic host of volunteers.  +