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Episode 2: The Sound of Science
Why did Congress move daylight savings time? Sophisticated recording devices might be placed in our national parks. A teenage girl benefits from gastric bypass surgery.
Emily V. Driscoll • March 25, 2007
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2 Comments
Your piece about the National Park Service recording natural and man-made sounds was very intriguing. Do you have any further information? I checked your website (which led me to an interesting artcile on gunshots) and googled for recent news and didn’t find anything.
thanks,
Keith McElveen
Thanks for your query about the story on the National Park Service monitoring system. The short podcast segment emerged as a spinoff from the gunshots article, since I had talked to an NPS researcher about the other applications of acoustics technology. While I don’t have a news story link to provide, you may find some of these background links useful:
NPS official site
http://www.nature.nps.gov/naturalsounds/
News and links relating to NPS initiative
http://www.acousticecology.org/wildlandsoundresource.html
You may remember this New York Times piece, but I think the story of the ivory-billed woodpecker is a good example of acoustics technology applications in conservation.
NYTimes article
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/07/magazine/07woodpecker.html?pagewanted=3&ex=1304654400en=561d08108f340077ei=5088partner=rssnytemc=rss
Cornell bioacoustics research
http://www.birds.cornell.edu/brp/?lk=lpro