Absolutely, Kevin. And Martyn may well have snagged a recording of the
thought-to-be-extinct Wyoming toad at Spread Creek Pond, the site you,
me, and Martyn were using for our Jackson Hole workshop a couple of
years ago. Haven't confirmed that one, yet. But others will return
this June to check it out.
BK
On Apr 28, 2011, at 1:36 PM, Kevin Colver wrote:
> Bernie,
> All that talk of soundscape recording made me homesick for the Arctic
> National Wildlife Refuge. So I've posted another recording from our
> trip in 2006 at the iTunes Store or at:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/3dybe5r
>
> Also, I agree with the points made in your Science Friday interview
> about how well sound checks the ecological pulse of an area, including
> night sounds. I've recorded in some of our National Wildlife Refuges
> (where refuge biologists do weekly surveys to census all species
> present) and frequently find species that the refuge workers didn't
> know were on their refuge. Few biologists, let alone anyone else, are
> out there at night nor know what they are hearing if they are out.
> Last week I recorded at the Rio Mesa preserve in eastern Utah, owned
> by the University of Utah. I found (and recorded) a breeding colony
> of Woodhouse's Toads they didn't know they had.
>
> Again, thank you for opening my ears to the Soundscapes concept.
>
> Kevin J Colver
> Soundscapes for Birders - a Podcast of Natural Sounds
> www.7Loons.com
>
>
>
>
> On Apr 28, 2011, at 1:59 PM, Bernie Krause wrote:
>
>> Thanks, Kevin. It has been great fun working with those folks at
>> Purdue. Took four years of really hard work to finally get this stuff
>> peer reviewed and published. The grad students there and at Michigan
>> State did some wonderful work. They deserve lots of credit for how
>> they've managed to frame it.
>>
>> There's another paper coming out, and which we also wrote, on a
>> different aspect of the subject in "Landscape Ecology," momentarily.
>> It's really a hot topic in eco-circles these days because when
>> recorded with proper protocol in the field and then analyzed, the
>> natural soundscape sheds so much non-invasive light on the health of
>> habitats and how human intervention affects the proto-orchestration,
>> that it's becoming the new evaluation tool of choice. And you and
>> Martyn have played important roles in this, too. I'll never forget
>> some insightful fellow at a NPS meeting, soon after I introduced the
>> concept of biophony, opining to the group that I couldn't introduce a
>> new word to science. I won't repeat my response in this forum. It's
>> no
>> accident that the perseverance paid off.
>>
>> Anyway, the great universal chirp lives on and every living community
>> benefits. What better goal is that?
>>
>> Bernie
>>
>> On Apr 28, 2011, at 12:17 PM, Kevin Colver wrote:
>>
>>> Great interview.
>>>
>>> Kevin J Colver
>>> Soundscapes for Birders - a Podcast of Natural Sounds
>>> www.7Loons.com
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Apr 22, 2011, at 8:35 AM, Bernie Krause wrote:
>>>
>>>> For those interested in learning more about soundscape ecology,
>> tune
>>>> into NPR Science Friday, 3 - 3:30 EDT. Here's the notice:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.sciencefriday.com/program/archives/201104223
>>>>
>>>> Bernie Krause
>>>>
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>>> "While a picture is worth a thousand words, a
>>> sound is worth a thousand pictures." R. Murray Schafer via Bernie
>>> Krause.
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> "While a picture is worth a thousand words, a
> sound is worth a thousand pictures." R. Murray Schafer via Bernie
> Krause.
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