Bioacoustics

Background to some bioacoustics ideas and principles

• Mosaic of the air How the acoustic space can be partitioned
• Out of intense complexities… individuals and indices Balancing scope, scale and speed as the fundamental limits of what a network is capable of.

Bioacoustics pioneers

• G. W. Pierce Physicist who made his own devices to study the songs of Orthoptera, started the misuse of the word pulse, and made early hydrophones.

Tools

sonicscrewdriver

The sonicscrewdriver is an R package that provides a set of tools for working with audio data.

• Generating acoustic training data in R with sonicscrewdriver

• BirdNET in R

Press stories

• Insect Orchestra article for NHM website.
• Noisy neighbours: Listening in to nature in cities and towns Introduction to my research as part of the Urban Nature Project.