Posted on 03/01/2011 2:41:13 PM PST by decimon
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A Purdue University researcher is leading an effort to create a new scientific field that will use sound as a way to understand the ecological characteristics of a landscape and to reconnect people with the importance of natural sounds.
Soundscape ecology, as it's being called, will focus on what sounds can tell people about an area. Bryan Pijanowski, an associate professor of forestry and natural resources and lead author of a paper outlining the field in the journal BioScience, said natural sound could be used like a canary in a coal mine. Sound could be a critical first indicator of environmental changes.
Pijanowski said sound could be used to detect early changes in climate, weather patterns, the presence of pollution or other alterations to a landscape.
"The dawn and dusk choruses of birds are very characteristic of a location. If the intensity or patterns of these choruses change, there is likely something causing that change," Pijanowski said. "Ecologists have ignored how sound that emanates from an area can help determine what's happening to the ecosystem."
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A coo sticks ping.
uh-boy, how much is this gonna cost me?
Oh, sh*t. They’re going to start regulating sound emissions.
I can see an individual studying sound patterns, etc. but a field of study??
Throw food out the window at the seashore...The gulls will squawk their heads off and dive to kill....hundreds of them.
Throw food out the window at the seashore...The gulls will squawk their heads off and dive to kill....hundreds of them.
Throw food out the window at the seashore...The gulls will squawk their heads off and dive to kill....hundreds of them.
Nuts are surfacing at an alarming rate.
Quick! Create Czar and biiiilion stimulus fund!!!
Throw food out the window at the seashore...The gulls will squawk their heads off and dive to kill....hundreds of them.
I agree. We need less noise. These people should shut up.
Be the first in your neighborhood to be part of this new scientific field! Imagine how impressed your friends will be when you tell them you’re a “Soundscape Ecologist”!
That buzzing sound you hear, means you're standing too close to that rattlesnake.
“...sound could be used to detect early changes in climate, weather patterns, the presence of pollution or other alterations to a landscape”
In other words, ‘proof’ of the effects of global warming. Bet the stimulus money is behind this. Open up depts of so-called science with stimulus money in order to prove and facilitate your agenda, IMHO.
Sounds like trouble on the horizon for wind farms!
LOL. That's punny too ! Luv it. Thanx !
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