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noise map pollution of lower 48 states in USA

Subject: noise map pollution of lower 48 states in USA
From: "Mark Oberle" oberlemark
Date: Wed Feb 18, 2015 11:42 am ((PST))
The noise map projections for the lower 48 States
shows what we all know as recordists.

>http://www.ibtimes.com/national-park-service-maps-noise-pollution-while-st=
udying-effects-visitors-wildlife-1818092



>NPS MAPS NOISE LEVELS THROUGHOUT US.=C3=82 The=C3=82
><http://www.ibtimes.com/national-park-service-maps-noise-pollution-while-s=
tudying-effects-visitors-wildlife-1818092>International
>Business Times=C3=82 (2/18, 1.19M) reports that the
>NPS is =C3=A2=C2=80=C2=9Con a mission to determine the quietest
>and noisiest places within the boundaries of the
>US national park system, and it has expanded its
>data to create a map of the noisiness of the
>entire country.=C3=A2=C2=80=C2=9D Kurt Fristrup, a scientist
>with the NPS=C3=A2=C2=80=C2=99 division of natural sounds and
>night skies, and =C3=A2=C2=80=C2=9Chis colleagues have been
>studying human-caused noise in the nation=C3=A2=C2=80=C2=99s
>parks for a decade or more in some places.=C3=A2=C2=80=C2=9D
>The article notes that =C3=A2=C2=80=C2=9Cmost recently, his
>team placed 600 sound monitors in parks around
>the country (from Denali National Park and
>Preserve in Alaska to Yellowstone National Park
>in Wyoming) to gauge how much noise pollution
>was infringing on these lands.=C3=A2=C2=80=C2=9D They then
>=C3=A2=C2=80=C2=9Cbuilt the above map of noises throughout the
>continental US by extrapolating their findings
>from the study of national parks =C2=96 for
>reference, a normal conversation reegisters at 60 decibels.=C3=A2=C2=80=C2=
=9D
>
>Also providing coverage are=C3=82
><http://www.cbsnews.com/news/map-shows-loudest-and-quietest-spots-in-u-s/>=
CBS
>News=C3=82 (2/18, 8.2M), the=C3=82
><http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2957413/The-quietest-places-Ameri=
ca-mapped-shhhhhh-don-t-tell-everyone.html>Daily
>Mail (UK)(2/18, 4.78M), the=C3=82
><http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2956970/Generation-disconn=
ect-Headphone-wearing-millennials-deaf-sounds-nature-scientist-warns.html>D=
aily
>Mail (UK)=C3=82 (2/18, 4.78M),=C3=82
><http://www.vox.com/2015/2/17/8055319/loud-quiet-places-map>Vox=C3=82
>(2/18, 737K),=C3=82
><http://www.newser.com/story/202794/scientists-map-americas-loudest-quiete=
st-places.html>Newser(2/18,
>252K), and=C3=82
><http://news.yahoo.com/shush-noise-pollution-hurting-wildlife-201344544.ht=
ml>Yahoo!
>News=C3=82 (2/18, 5.81M).
>
>--

Mark Oberle
Seattle, WA








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sound is worth a thousand pictures." R. Murray Schafer via Bernie Krause.



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