Mark H. Pedelty, an accredited professor at the University of Minnesota, routinely performs research on the impacts of sound ecology. Within the field of sound ecology, researchers evaluate the impacts of noise pollution and how sound interventions, also known as applied ecomusicology, can benefit organisms and their surrounding ecosystems; Professor Pedelty focuses his research on improving the sustainability within various soundscapes. Noise pollution is a common issue in today’s society and leaves many disadvantages effects on the nature surrounding human society. Although efforts to improve the negative effects of sound pollution on wildlife are underway, there still lies a wide array of issues that need improvement―such as the complex…show more content… More specifically, populations of whales are beginning to decline in areas of the ocean prone to noise pollution due to ships, submarines, and other military/government vesicles that make use of sonar exercises (Singla). Ships and other such vesicles that practice tactical solar exercises negatively impact the wellbeing of marine life, in this case whales, because they cannot withstand the extreme underwater noise from the sonar technologies and therefore beach themselves. This beaching is slowly decreasing the amount of whales, along with other forms of marine life such as giant squids, which poses a hazardous threat to the overall populations of these marine species and could lead to the eventual classification of “endangered species” if the sonar practices are not limited, stopped, or tightly controlled in order to prevent such whale and other marine life fatalities. Furthermore, tactical sonar practices increase the amount of excess sound pollution in the oceans, leaving behind harmful impacts on whales because of an increased likelihood of death by
