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    This document discusses how acoustic ecology allows scientists to gather new data on species through audio recording and analysis. Tracking animal sounds enables conservationists to monitor whale migrations, study animal communication like elephants, and understand how animals respond to human noise. The Cornell University Bioacoustics Research Program has numerous sound gathering and ecological interpretation projects around the globe to observe species through acoustic monitoring.

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    This document discusses how acoustic ecology allows scientists to gather new data on species through audio recording and analysis. Tracking animal sounds enables conservationists to monitor whale migrations, study animal communication like elephants, and understand how animals respond to human noise. The Cornell University Bioacoustics Research Program has numerous sound gathering and ecological interpretation projects around the globe to observe species through acoustic monitoring.

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    Ecosystems &Biodiversity

    PCK 3

    Acoustic Ecology

    Acoustic Ecology: Evesdropping on Species

    Introduction
    Tracking animals with new technology such as global positioning systems (GPS) and
    plotting their tracks using Geograpgic information systems (GIS) has allowed scientists to
    gather

    data

    that

    has

    been

    unobtainable

    in

    the

    past.

    For

    example,

    see

    http://www.marine.csiro.au/research/whitesharks/index.html and look at the shark tracks.


    Recent developments in audio recording and processing have enabled conservation
    ecologists to collect whole new sets of data from species, by eavesdropping on the sounds
    they make. The migration of whales can be tracked, communication between animals such
    as elephants can be studied, bird behaviour and courtship displays unravelled, and the
    responses of animals to human noise understood and managed.
    This is the web page for the Cornell University
    Bioacoustics Research Program. at
    http://www.birds.cornell.edu/brp

    Click the link to around the globe


    which shows the location of a number
    of

    their

    sound

    gathering

    ecological interpretation projects.

    and

    Ecosystems &Biodiversity

    Acoustic Ecology

    Task 1 Eavesdropping on Whales

    Where do the whales migrate to for summer, and where do they come from ?
    How are the whales tracked ?

    Space Age Whale Monitoring - What is a satellite acoustic tag ?

    How is it attached to the whale ?


    Task 2 Eavesdropping Equipment

    Autonomous Hydrophones - Where are hydrophones located ?


    Other Equipment: What are camera traps and what have they been used for?

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