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.

• Nature is never silent? Is nature actually noisy?

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

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

• Generating acoustic training data in R with sonicscrewdriver - how to generate augmneted training data for machine learning from audio files.

• BirdNET in R - running BirdNET from within an R environment.

Bioacoustic collections

BioAcoustica - a repository for bioacoustic recordings I developed hosted at the Natural History Museum, London.

The Importance of Biological Sound Archives - Acoustics Today article by Jack Greenhalgh with some quotes from me on the importance of sound collections. PDF

audioBlast! - protoytpe tool to search across multiple sound collections.

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.