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!
Weekly radio short story on France Inter
Each Monday at 14h55 you can listen to a short radio story dedicated to bioacoustics and ecoacoustics. This story is part of the France Inter (French national public radio) radio show La Terre au Carré.
The short story is entitled « Le Son de la Terre » (Earth’s sound) and can be podcast here [in French].
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 Félix Michaud!
We are very pleased to host Félix Michaud who is initiating a PhD in artificial intelligence for ecoacoustics in collaboration with the MIT MediaLab (Boston, USA). This PhD project was awarded by the Sorbonne Center for Artificial Intelligence from Sorbonne Université.
Welcome to Adèle de Baudouin!
It is a great pleasure to welcome Adèle de Baudoin who is starting a PhD at the crossroad between ecoacoustics and electroacoustics. This PhD will be co-supervised with Prof. Pierre Couprie from Université Paris Saclay/Evry and is funded by the Collegium Musicae from Sorbonne Université.
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).
New publication: Toucan acoustic monitoring in French Guiana
We have just published a new research dealing with the acoustic monitoring of the White-Throated toucan in French Guiana. Congratulations to Manon Ducrettet for her first paper!
Picture by Michel Giraud-Audine