Listening to the WoodsOne 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 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Raven Exhibit Aiding STEM Education
Using the STEM Model to Customize a Raven Exhibit for The Macedonia Forest Block Important Bird Area.
This blog is a guest post from Olivia Pignataro, a high school junior (Class of ’21) at Marvelwood School in Kent, Connecticut. This is…
