CCB in Southeast Asia: Gibbons, bioacoustics, and durian, oh my!Nothing is more incredible than the sunrise in the Bornean jungle. My main study species — the Bornean gibbon — calls in the early morning hours, with the males often beginning their melancholy solos before dawn. There is a particularly…
- Sharing Expertise for a Greater Impact
The Center for Conservation Bioacoustics (CCB) recently taught a Sound Analysis Workshop in Colombia in partnership with Hector Rivera and his colleagues at the Universidad de Antioquia. The goal of the workshop was to teach graduate students and other researchers…
- Making waves with sound in Borneo
This summer, I traveled to the far-away island of Borneo to practice and promote the use of sound for studying and solving some of Indonesia’s biggest conservation challenges. Since 2018, I have been conducting bioacoustics research within the 135,000-hectare Rungan…
- Listening to the Woods
One of the advantages of working at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology is being able to walk outside of the office and into the woods where one can spend a quiet hour contemplating nature and putting the world to rights,…
- A View from the Wheel House – Changing Tide
This is not a scientific paper with theories, graphs, peer-reviews, and conclusions. This is a set of observations that some of my colleagues and I have experienced in recent past. I’m not going to use the term you might be…
