NGS grant to study DMZ soundscapes

EAR received a National Geographic Society Explorer grant to conduct ecoacoustic research at the border between South Korea and North Korea, in the well known DMZ. This project is based on a collaboration with 이화여자대학교 Ewha Womans University, Nabi Ecology (https://www.nabi-ecology.com/), DMZ Ecology Research Institute DMZ 생태연구소, and Academia Sinica 中央研究院 Academia Sinica. Impatient to record the soundscapes of the DMZ forest!

Project HEARBIODIV granted by the ANR

The project Auditory Perception of Natural Soundscapes:
Hearing Biodiversity
led by Christian Lorenzi (ENS Paris, Laboratoire des Systèmes Perceptifs) has been granted by the ANR.

EAR is the main partner of this psycho-acoustic project and will lead one of the three main task.

Ecoacoustic special issue in Remote Sensing in Ecology and Evolution

We are delighted to announce the publication of the special issue
« Ecoacoustics and Biodiversity Monitoring » in the journal
Remote Sensing
in Ecology and Conservation.

The issue is edited by Dan Stowell and EAR and features 2
reviews and 6 original research articles on ecoacoustics. Benefiting
from recent growth of the scale of data capture and processing, the
focus in acoustic monitoring is shifting to broader ecosystem-level
questions, while using audio as a prime source of evidence. This is the
main goal of ecoacoustics, and is reflected in many of the articles
featured in the issue. The articles cover a variety of habitats from
deep sea to tropical forest, and a wide variety of acoustic analysis
methods.

All articles are open access, free to read and download.
Browse the articles here.

Two new frog publications

We have participated to two new great studies dealing with the acoustics of neotropical frogs :

Fouquet A et al – Simulated chorus attracts conspecific and heterospecific Amazonian explosive-breeding frogs. Biotropica

Bonnefond A et al – Climatic breadth of calling behaviour in two widespread neotropical anurans: insights from humidity extremes. Global Change Biology

Welcome to Sylvain Haupert!

We are very pleased to announce that Sylvain Haupert is now officially part of ISYEB and so of EAR project! Sylvain has already done a great job with EAR research and we are sure we are going to have great fun in the next years!

Opinion about noise at the time of the covid-19 outbreak published in French newspaper Le Monde

We have published an opinion dealing with the issue of noise pollution in Le Monde with Olivier Adam (Sorbonne Université), Paul Avan (Institut Pasteur), Marion Burgess (University of New South Wales), David Ecotière (CEREMA), Catherine Lavandier, (Cergy Paris Université), Christian Lorenzi (Ecole normale supérieure), Fanny Mietlicki (Bruitparif), Jean-Dominique Polack (Sorbonne Université).