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The Sound,
Silence, Environments Lab
(Beever, PI) was founded in
2016, with support from a UCF
Advancement of Early Career
Researchers grant. The lab is
focused on the philosophy of
soundscape ecology (the study of
the biological, geophysical, and
anthropogenic sounds that
emanate from landscapes),
examining methodological,
conceptual, and ethical issues
in this emerging branch of
conservation science.
He studies the
nature and value of soundscapes
as they relate both human
cultural and nonhuman
experiences. Beever is
interested in questions
including the extent to which
big-data algorithmic sound
analysis techniques reflect the
experience of listening, how
digital abstraction can support
or challenge conservation
values, and the nature of the
relationship between
listening-to and listening-as.
- Download a
tool for soundscape analysis
here: https://github.com/jonathanbeever/mangrove
- See one of
my student's work on this
project here: http://evanwaldmann.org/projects.html
- Watch a video interview on
this work
- Watch a video produced by one of his
students
Current data sets
under analysis include:
- Central
Florida Zoo partnerships using
"listening-to" methodologies to
understand noise profile impacts
on animal residents
- giraffe
2017-09-27 - 2018-01-25, 48 kHz,
16 bit, 1 hour periodically
across day
- black bear
2017-09-27 to 2018-01-12, 96
kHz, 16 bit
- cougar
(shorter set, a few weeks
later), 96 kHz, 16 bit
- Hurricane
Irma in Central Florida
(2017-Sept-07 to 2017-Sept-11,
two sites, 96 kHz to 16 bit, 10
min every hour)
- 2018 Solar
Eclipse in Central Florida
(2017-Jun-02 to 2017-Jun-22
continuous, two sites, 48 kHz,
16 bit)
- UCF
Arboretum (longitudinal ongoing
recording to track change over
time and baseline for proposed
changes of conversation of
unmanaged natural space to solar
farm - 2017.8.25 to present, 96
Khz, 16 bit, 10 minutes every
hour)
- "Liminal
Space" project (2017-06-02 to
2017-06-20 (to 07-03 for two of
three sites), three sites, 96
kHz, 16 bit, 10 min every hour)
More details on
methodologies, results, and
impact are forthcoming.
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