Douglas Wartzok, FIU's vice president for academic affairs is quoted in Physics Today, the magazine of the American Physical Society (APS): Legal battle over sonar testing heats up Jennifer Ouellette, Physics Today volume 61, February 2008, page 23 doi:10.1063/1.2883901 ... "Where there is consensus on sonar and beaked whales, it is that under certain circumstances not completely understood, mid-frequency naval sonar initiates a chain of behavioral and physiological responses that terminate in beaked whales stranding on beaches and then dying of hyperthermia," says Douglas Wartzok, vice president for academic affairs at Florida International University. "There are many unknowns regarding the source operating characteristics, environmental features affecting the transmission of the sounds to the animals, and the behavioral and physiological responses of the whales." ...

 

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