Strib porpoise research station was a bioacoustic research facility located in

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. The station was formed in 1962 with the official name ''Station Oceanographique Anton Bruun'' by the first director René-Guy Busnel (France) and co-worker Willem Dudok van Heel (the Netherlands), in honour of the Danish oceanographer

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. Søren Hechmann Andersen joined the station from the start and quickly succeeded Busnel as head of the laboratory. Later he was joined by fellow scientists

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and Mats Amundin. The facilities consisted of net pens in the former ferry harbour and indoor tanks and laboratories. The main focus of research at the station was the bioacoustics of

harbour porpoise The harbour porpoise (''Phocoena phocoena'') is one of eight extant species of porpoise. It is one of the smallest species of cetacean. As its name implies, it stays close to coastal areas or river estuaries, and as such, is the most familiar ...

s and involved the first documentation of echolocation in porpoises, first measurements of their hearing, and first recording of their echolocation signals. but also included studies

hearing Hearing, or auditory perception, is the ability to perceive sounds In physics, sound is a vibration that propagates as an acoustic wave, through a transmission medium such as a gas, liquid or solid. In human physiology and psycholog ...

harbour seal The harbor (or harbour) seal (''Phoca vitulina''), also known as the common seal, is a true seal found along temperate and Arctic marine coastlines of the Northern Hemisphere. The most widely distributed species of pinniped (walruses, eared sea ...

s,. The station was closed in 1974 and animals and research moved to

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, where it continued until 1983.

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