{"id":1303,"date":"2016-09-09T22:03:20","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T22:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/ccb\/?p=1303"},"modified":"2024-11-04T04:33:35","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T04:33:35","slug":"soundscapes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/ccb\/soundscapes\/","title":{"rendered":"Soundscapes, Acoustic Habitats, and Biodiversity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image featured\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"571\" height=\"297\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/ccb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/LTSA-Antarctica.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3230 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/ccb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/LTSA-Antarctica.jpg 571w, https:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/ccb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/LTSA-Antarctica-480x250.jpg 480w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 571px) 100vw, 571px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 571px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 571\/297;\" \/><figcaption>Visual representation of 18 months of underwater acoustic data collected in Antarctica in 2009\/2010.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Soundscapes and acoustic habitats are complex and comprised of&nbsp;a variety of biological, geophysical, and anthropogenic acoustic signals. Much of our research in this area focuses on the assessment of spatiotemporal variability in ambient noise levels and how the various acoustic sources contribute to the overall soundscape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are also developing new analysis techniques to assess biodiversity from acoustic recordings. Our hope is that this work will lead to a standardized&nbsp;and reproducible way to rapidly assess ecosystem health such as a &#8220;bioacoustic blitz.&#8221; If you are local to Ithaca, New York, and interested in supporting this specific work by&nbsp;contributing visual and aural bird observations&nbsp;via <a href=\"https:\/\/ebird.org\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">eBird<\/a>, please consider participating in our <a href=\"https:\/\/ebird.org\/science\/applied-projects\/avicaching\/swamp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">avicaching competition<\/a>. We will host this competition periodically throughout the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soundscapes and acoustic habitats are complex and comprised of&nbsp;a variety of biological, geophysical, and anthropogenic acoustic signals. Much of our research in this area focuses on the assessment of spatiotemporal variability in ambient noise levels and how the various acoustic sources contribute to the overall soundscape. We are also developing new analysis techniques to assess<a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/ccb\/soundscapes\/\" title=\"ReadSoundscapes, Acoustic Habitats, and Biodiversity\">&#8230; Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2772,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_birdpress_hero_toggle":false,"_birdpress_hero_type":"image","_birdpress_hero_image_type":"image","_birdpress_hero_style":"default","_birdpress_hero_ratio":"","_birdpress_hero_h1":"","_birdpress_hero_media_id":0,"_birdpress_hero_media_array_id":[],"_birdpress_hero_media_array":[],"_birdpress_hero_media":0,"_birdpress_hero_video_id":0,"_birdpress_hero_video":0,"_birdpress_hero_youtube":"","_birdpress_hero_content":true,"_birdpress_hero_byline":"","_birdpress_hero_byline_bottom":"","_birdpress_hero_button_link":"","_birdpress_hero_button_text":"","_birdpress_hero_button_color":"","_birdpress_hero_date":false,"original_guid":"","_birdpress_hide_search":false,"_birdpress_page_width":"","_birdpress_global_cta":false,"_birdpress_widget_sidebar":"","_birdpress_next_article":0,"_birdpress_next_article_title":"","_birdpress_prev_article":0,"_birdpress_prev_article_title":"","_birdpress_sub_navigation_id":0,"_birdpress_sub_navigation":"","_birdpress_sub_navigation_title":false,"_birdpress_anchor_navigation_id":0,"_birdpress_anchor_navigation":"","_birdpress_postType":"both","_birdpress_categoryID":0,"_birdpress_tagID":0,"_birdpress_parentPostID":0,"_birdpress_parentPostTitle":"","_birdpress_menuID":0,"_birdpress_menuName":"","_birdpress_listHeader":"","_birdpress_listLayout":"card-display","_birdpress_listColumns":"","_birdpress_maxItems":12,"_birdpress_listPaginate":true,"_birdpress_displaySort":true,"_birdpress_sortOrder":"DESC","_birdpress_sortBy":"date","_birdpress_listID":"","_birdpress_listClass":"","_birdpress_displayImages":true,"_birdpress_displayCaptions":false,"_birdpress_displayExcerpts":false,"_birdpress_attTop":"","_birdpress_attBottom":"","_birdpress_showLogos":false,"_birdpress_post_logo":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"content-format":[],"class_list":["post-1303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/ccb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/ccb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/ccb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/ccb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/ccb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/ccb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/ccb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/ccb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/ccb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/ccb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1303"},{"taxonomy":"content-format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/ccb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-format?post=1303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}