Bioacoustics and the Environment
Bioacoustics and the Environment
Insects, Trees, and Climate:
The Bioacoustic Ecology of Deforestation and
Entomogenic Climate Change
Documentation:
Hidden Fragility of Complex Systems---—Consequences of Change, Changing Consequences
The Bioacoustic Ecology of Deforestation and Entomogenic Climate Change
The Sound of Light in Trees: The Acoustic Ecology of Pinyon Pines
In the News:
La música de los árboles en la gran ciudad,
La Vanguardia, 1 October 2008, Barcelona, Spain
Jim Crutchfield & David Dunn Interview, Barcelona TV
Jim Crutchfield & David Dunn Interview, El Periodico
en RESONÀNCIA
—Encontre Internacional Noves Fronteres de La Ciencia,
L’Art I El Pensament
La Pedrera, Barcelona, Spain
29, 30 September, & 1 October 2008
Cosas de la vida, El Periodico, 1 October 2008
Al Gore cites SFI research on Meet the Press, INSIDE SFI, September 2008
“Pop Chirp Bite Crunch Chew”, Science News 174:5 (30 August 2008)
Al Gore describes entomogenic climate change
on Meet The Press, 20 July 2008
Mountain pine beetle and forest carbon feedback to climate change
Nature 452, 987-990 (24 April 2008)
Composer Records Beetles to Mark Climate Change
David Dunn Interview, National Public Radio, 10 March 2008
Osmosis: What can the Arts do for the Sciences, Jim Crutchfield,
Berkeley Big Bang, Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive,
UC Berkeley, 3 June 2008
Mutamorphosis: Challenging Arts and Sciences,
Related News:
New York Times: 18 November 2008
Bark Beetles Kill Millions of Acres of Trees in West
New York Times: 29 April 2008
The Beetle Factor in a Carbon Calculus
New York Times: 29 December 2007
New York Times: 11 July 2007
Balmy Weather May Bench a Baseball Staple
New York Times: 9 June 2007
As Beetle Threatens, 10,000 Staten Island Trees Die by Chain Saw
People:
Jim Crutchfield, Physicist
David Dunn, Composer
Collaborators:
Richard Hofstetter, Forest ecologist
Jayne Yack: Neuroethologist
Battling Beetles: Research on beetle communication leads to new infestation controls
Exercise:
Google Earth tour of beetle deforestation:
1. Start up Google Earth and fly to British Columbia, Yukon Territory, and Alaska
2.Catalog the number of bright red forest patches; these are regions of dying pines.
3.Next to these patches you’ll see grey areas, these are already dead pines.