Hudson Ecological Acoustic Research
The Hudson Ecological Acoustics Research (HEAR) project studies the underwater soundscapes in the estuarine and freshwater portions of the Hudson River in eastern New York State. HEAR is an initiative of the Hudson River National Estuarine Research Reserve in partnership with the K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation’s Hudson River Estuary Program.
Wavelength Associates worked closely with the HEAR team to create audio and video content, and produce Sounding the Depths, a collection of ArcGIS StoryMaps focused on the soundscapes of the Hudson River Estuary. Services included writing and information synthesis; graphic documentation of field research, interviewing project collaborators; production of audio and video-based media; and constructing the 6-part StoryMap collection.
Visit the Sounding the Depths – an ArcGIS StoryMap collection with a target audience of High School-aged students in the Hudson River Valley.
Visit Deep Listening – an ArcGIS StoryMap focused on HEAR for a general audience.
Project Breathless
Project Breathless is an initiative of SUNY College of Environmental Science & Forestry that brings together an international team of fisheries ecologists and communication scholars to increase understanding of the impacts of low oxygen aquatic dead zones on fish.
Wavelength Associates provided creative services for the initiative, including writing and information synthesis; recording and editing interviews with project collaborators; building the Project Breathless website; and producing digital media for an exhibit at the Baltic Sea Science Center in Stockholm, Sweden. Wavelength Associates also composed music as an outreach aspect of Project Breathless, producing a dead zone sea shanty, and working closely with project collaborators to convert their research data into musical notes to compose a series of songs. The songs interpret how low-oxygen conditions influence fish in the Baltic Sea, Lake Erie and Gulf of Mexico, and tell musical stories about the lifetimes of individual fish that swam in water with varying levels of oxygen depletion.
Listen to the Project Breathless theme song, Survivors Survive, a dead zone sea shanty.
Visit the Fish Songs homepage on the Project Breathless website to hear songs of Gulf of Mexico Red Drum, Lake Erie Yellow Perch and Baltic Cod.
Songs of Baltic Codfish
A short video sharing details about the data sonification project and composition of the songs of Baltic Cod.
Copyright © Karin Limburg, Elizabeth LoGiudice, SUNY, RF SUNY / 2020, 2021. All rights reserved. These Cod Songs may not be published, reproduced, displayed, modified or distributed without the express prior written permission of the copyright holder. For permission, contact [klimburg@esf.edu].
Climate-adaptive Design Studio
The Climate-adaptive Design studio is a landscape architecture studio at Cornell University that connects students with communities in New York’s Hudson River Valley. The students interact with community members as they produce nature-based designs that envision neighborhoods that are more resilient to the impacts of climate change. Wavelength Associates collaborates with Cornell faculty to create online and print outreach materials using elements of the students’ final designs.
Explore the Hudson Valley Regional LookBook – a pdf and print publication that features student design strategies that address flooding, sea level rise and extreme heat.
View Hudson Waterfronts on the Rise, a Climate-adaptive Design studio ArcGIS StoryMap publication.
Women of the River Oral History Project
A collaboration with Marist College Archives & Special Collections to collect and curate oral histories of women who have been instrumental in the protection, restoration and celebration of New York’s Hudson River.
Echolocation Radio
The show that eavesdrops on Mother Nature
Echolocation explores aspects of environmental science & art, especially bioacoustics and its use in sound art and musical composition. The show dwells at the junction between art, science and natural sound, and features works by artists working in the fields of soundscape studies, deep listening and acoustic ecology. Since 2016, Echolocation has aired on WGXC in New York’s upper Hudson Valley, worldwide at wavefarm.org, and is available as a podcast.
Echolocation Opener
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