Listening to Fish in Florida Bay: Understanding impacts of Freshwater Runoff on Estuarine Fish BehaviorAs freshwater drains south through Florida from Lake Okeechobee into the Gulf of Mexico, it travels through the Everglades and Florida Bay at the southern tip of Florida. This freshwater is critical for providing South Florida with water for drinking…
- 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,…
- Making a Case for Open Access
On October 28th, the global scientific community wrapped up the Open Access Week. Open Access Week (according to wikipedia, and fact-checked by openaccessweek.com) is a scholarly communication event that focuses on Open Access and related topics. Events include talks, digital seminars, symposia,…
- 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…
- Mid-Atlantic Migratory Corridor and Wind Farm Construction
September comes every year with a sense of excitement. Students go back to school, football players take to the field, and there is a promise of cooler temperatures to offer some relief from the dog days of summer. For me,…
