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  • CCB in Southeast Asia: Gibbons, bioacoustics, and durian, oh my!

    https://vimeo.com/387522605 Video of a male Bornean gibbon singing a morning solo, taken at Maliau Basin Conservation Area. Nothing is more incredible than the sunrise in the Bornean jungle. My main study species — the Bornean gibbon — calls in the…

  • Sharing Expertise for a Greater Impact

    Travel accommodations come in all shapes and sizes. 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…

  • Making waves with sound in Borneo

    Rungan landscape situated in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia (Google Maps) 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…

  • 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

    Captain Fred Channell deploying a Marine Autonomous Recording Unit (MARU). 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….