Welcome

I am the Acoustic Biology Researcher at the Natural History Museum, London, working on the Urban Nature Project. I formerly worked in the Department of Electronic Engineering at the University of York (Leverhulme funded Automated Acoustic Observatories project) and the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature.

🦗.fm - my work on museum sound collections and the bioacoustics of Orthoptera.

Horatosphaga raggei - a species first identified by its song.

Calling song of Horatosphaga raggei (Heller & Baker, 2017) a new species first identified from its song.

Current projects

Urban Nature Project: monitoring and understanding urban biodiversity in the UK

• Urban Research Station: A sensor network and hub for researching urban biodiversity.

• Nature Overheard: Community Science project including acoustic monitoring.

• FlyTunes: Crowd-sourcing training sets of audio clips for machine learning.

WildlifeSystems: devices for monitoring biodiversity as part of large, dense sensor networks

BioAcoustica: repository for bioacoustic data

audioBlast!: discovering and searching of bioacoustic and ecoacoustic datasets

bioacoustics quotes: selected quotes on bioacoustics and ecoacoustics. Based on the R package bioacousticsquotes.

R bioacoustics tools

SonicScrewdriveR: multi-tool for bioacoustic analysis and visualisation in R

tdsc: time-domain signal coding in R

.wav file size calculator: interactive wave file sizer calculator.

zcjs-r: visualise zero-crossing files in R and Shiny using the zcjs library

Data management tools

ontomasticon: simple, lightweight ontology and glossary server

Publications

Google Scholar: scientific papers and published reports

Reports: reports

Medium: longer form writing

Blog: shorter articles

Roles and responsibilities

Convenor TDWG AudiovisualCore Maintenance Group GitHub | Standard

Co-convenor Royal Entomological Society Orthoptera Special Interest Group

Vice-chair (Phasmida) IUCN Grasshopper Specialist Group

Editor Phasmid Studies

Teaching

MSc Taxonomy, Biodiversity & Evolution (Imperial College and Natural History Museum)

• Acoustic Keys and Identification

MSc Ecology & Data Science (University College London and Natural History Museum)

MSc Ecology and Urban Engineering (University College London)

• Urban Noise

Find me elsewhere

linktr.ee/edwbaker