Local History Guild is the NBWM’s quarterly Zoom program, an informal discussion about art, history, science and culture related to the museum mission, collection, and the surrounding region. This June, NBWM invites two important marine mammal scientists to speak on their work and the changing world of underwater marine mammal sound and ocean noise. Dr. Susan E. Parks, Professor of Biology at Syracuse University and Dr. Laela Sayigh, Professor at Hampshire College and a research scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, have worked with animals and their sounds off the coast of Massachusetts and beyond. Zoom in for their discussion that will illuminate how our more-than-human kin communicate underwater—and how we humans can learn from what they have to say.