ecoacoustics research project
EAR was part of the giant consortium Silent Cities. We installed and monitored 3 recorders during the breakdown, inside and in close proximity of Paris. This COVID-19 related dataset is the result of an amazing work led by led by Samuel Challéat, Nicolas Farrugia, Jérémy Froidevaux, and Amandine Gasc. EAR is very proud to be part of it. The paper, published in Scientific Data, is available here.
A part of EAR team was present and very active at the 5th World Ecoacoustics Congress that was organized by Diego Llusia and his team in Madrid. Since the first session organized in 2014 in Paris by the starting EAR team, the congress increased in size with more than 250 attendees for this Spanish version. This session was so intense and inspiring!
EAR members (from left to right Manon Ducrettet, Léa Mariton, Yves Bas, Yann Teytaut, Joachim Poutaraud, Sylvain Haupert, and Jérôme Sueur) presented 1 poster, gave 6 talks, and participated to 2 exciting round tables.
Congratulations to Joachim Poutaraud for his new article, which opens up new perspectives on the exploration of soundscapes without prior knowledge of the sounds they contain. He proposes a new technique called Meta-embedding Clustering (MEC) to improve clustering quality in unlabeled bird sound datasets that might be very helpful for exploring sound diversity present in complex ecological systems such as tropical forests. Link to the publication.
On the 31st of May, Adèle de Baudouin defended with a great success her PhD at the crossroad between ecoacoustics (ecology) and electroacoustics (musicology). Congratulations for all her inspiring work!
Congratulations to Camille Desjonquères (past member of EAR, now at CNRS / Université Grenoble Alpes, Université Savoie) for leading this review published in the prestigious Philosophical Transactions of the Royal society on the potential of acoustic monitoring of aquatic insects for freshwater assessment! Link to the publication.
Congratulations to Adèle de Baudouin for her first PhD paper dedicated to the visualization of soundscapes in both ecology and music! She proposes a circular time organization of field recordings or music compositions based on spectral similarity analysis. Check out the beautiful chord diagrams she could produce! Link to the publication
Lorenzo is a Master student in ecology at the Muséum
National d’Histoire Naturelle. He will work on the labelization (label definition, setting and delimitation) of the soundscape recordings from Ecuador.
A new publication led by Christian Lorenzi (ENS Ulm – Paris Sciences et Lettres) about human auditory ecology, in particular about human perception of natural soundscapes. This establish a new bridge between ecoacoustics and human hearing research.
Violette is a student a the design school Ecole Estienne. She will work as a mediation support designer for the project sonosylva, granted by the OFB.
Antoine is a a 5th year student at the ENS Lyon. He is working on tropical soundscape over years in our projet dB@Nouragues.