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Listening to Coastal Futures
Listening is a form of inquiry that can immerse hearers in a living environment and connect people across boundaries. Scroll down to the Soundstage to discover different ways we are listening to the changing shore of this biosphere.
SOUNDSTAGE
SOUNDSCAPES OF RESTORATION
Soundscapes of Restoration advances projects in sonification and soundscape ecology that intersect with current environmental and social science research at the Virginia Coast Reserve. In particular, this project looks at several restoration and conservation projects running in parallel with the scientific research. For more information, click here.
Sounds of Erosion & Barrier Island Migration
Waves On Shore Gravel
Sea Grasses
Seagrass Sonification
Seagrasses- July South Bay
Oyster Reefs
Oysters- Long Term Underwater Field Recording
Nesting Bird Migration
Barrier Islands Birds Soundscape
BIOSPHERE SOUNDSCAPES
The Virginia Coast Reserve is a UNESCO Biosphere and the Conservatory’s Long Term Field Recording (LTFR) method can provide a valuable resource for those studying long term change at the Virginia Shores through sound. Our LTFR soundscape project uses sound to offer a comparative analysis between transition zones and core zones that offer habitat for the fragile biodiversity of the region under stress from global warming. For more information, click here.
Ghost Forest
Ghost Forest
Crab Flutes
Crab Flutes Field Recording
Barrier Island Soundscape
Cobb Island- Barrier Island Soundscape
Human/Nature Interaction
US-13 Roadside Soundscape
Boat Launch
Hydrophone Recording- Underwater Boat Launch
LONG TERM FIELD RECORDING
Long Term Field Recording (LTFR) is a method for ecological sound recording as a part of long term ecological research (LTER) at the Coastal Futures Conservatory and Virginia Coast Reserve (VCR). Three approaches work together to offer a sonic profile of the evolving Virginia coast during these most precipitous times of rapid global warming.
Streambox
(perpetual broadcast of oyster reef site)
Oyster Reef Restoration Streambox
Sea Turtles
(seagrass recorders)
South Bay Seagrasses
Water Bears
(underwater long term recording)
4pm Oyster Reef
2am Oyster Reef
Sand Bears
(land-based long term recorders)
Cobb Island- Barrier Island Soundscape
SONIFICATION
Sonification: Listening to Science
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Sonification is the technique of converting non-audio data into sound. The technique allows us to listen to environmental changes that don’t make sound, or that happen over such long periods of time that we wouldn’t be able to comprehend the change. For example, we might sonify the migration of barrier islands, sea level rise, ocean acidification, or the chemistry, temperature or light of different processes in the environment. Like visualization, these sonic mappings of data help us understand what science is revealing.
Seagrass Sonifications
Seagrass Carbon & Nitrogen Sonification
Seagrass Respiration Sonification
Dreams Of Seagrasses- Matthew Burtner
Dune Erosion
Hannah Martin-Dune Erosion Sonification
Keeling Curve
Anthony Murphy-Neilson- Keeling Curve Sonification
Barrier Island Water Quality Sonification
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