http://www.wired.co.uk/article/climate-change-ocean-noise With warming temperatures, the northern migration of subpolar whales is colliding with native species in the Arctic. Very interesting article concerning the loss of sea ice and loss of sounds as more subarctic creatures migrate north with climate change. Habitats are changing and humans and industry are shifting towards these untapped areas filled with natural… Read more The Sound of Our Oceans
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/09/170918151710.htm A group of scientists led by Professor Peidong Yang at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed a new electrocatalyst made up of copper spheres that are 7 nanometers in diameter and then covered in carbon paper to create catalyst cubes that can directly convert carbon dioxide into multicarbon… Read more CO2 To Fuel – A1
Krause explains that some “natural soundscapes cannot be replaced, as evidenced by the 25 percent loss of viable North American biophonies collected in [his] library.” How do you think climate change will impact this already substantial decrease? Are there some soundscapes that future generations will not hear? Will the migration of species as a result… Read more Questions for Krause article 9/21/17
I started my sound walk at 8 am. This morning was pretty noisy, well noisy doesn’t seem to be the right word. More like there was a lot of acoustics all happening at once. It was a bit overwhelmingat first, but I realized that I felt overwhelmed because I tend to wear headphones in the morning… Read more SOUNDWALK @ 8am
I took a sound walk across campus across campus during the midmorning. One of the biggest things I noticed was that in the past, I did not notice the natural sounds around me as much as the man-made sounds. In the past, I seemed to notice the trucks and construction equipment much more than the… Read more Soundwalk Across Campus
The article discusses in detail the power of silence. Does silence exert its own power in your life, and do you exert a power over it? If so, how? Stocker describes in detail the effect of noise in particular, and its relation to nausea, painting it in a negative light. Is all noise negative? What… Read more Questions for Stocker article 9/19/17 pt 2
I took a five minute sound walk while I was waiting for the 38 bus and I surprisingly found that our campus is actually pretty quiet. I could recognize sound of some insects making sounds and moving around the grass and I saw a squirrel biting an echinacea which also resulted in some sounds. Birds… Read more Soundwalk at the 38 Bus stop next to the Rockies
What ways do you think sound changes when we are safe or when we are exposed? Stocker discusses gender based perceptions. How accurate do you feel these assumptions are? Considering the effects of various noises on adrenalin production, how do you think the intrusion of cell phone rings and vibrations in our daily lives impacts… Read more Questions for Stocker article 9/19/17
I went out of pratt without noticing that my earphones were on. Everything was quiet. The sounds around me were masked by a soft sponge. But I could still hear the whisper of bugs, people’s laugh from a distant place, PVTA’s honking… those with high frequency penetrated the sponge. I took off my earphones and… Read more Sound Walk(Sit) around Lower Lake
I took a soundwalk around 2pm yesterday; I was really interested to see the sounds I would hear during the bustle of campus, but at a time where a lot of people had class. There was a lot of activity, but it wasn’t so much that I was overwhelmed. I was kind of surprised by… Read more Haley Rivers Soundwalk