Ed Baker FLS ARCS
Interdisciplinary researcher using sensor networks and acoustics to monitor biodiversity and environments.
Latest publications
- Catalysts for change: Museum gardens in a planetary emergency
- Bioacoustic and Ecoacoustic Data in Audiovisual Core
- Good practice guidelines for long-term ecoacoustic monitoring in the UK
- Realising the potential for acoustic monitoring to address environmental policy needs
Latest blog posts
- TDWG Audiovisual Core: Image Quality and AI
- Announcing ReVAMP: Bringing Vamp Audio Analysis Plugins to R
- Urban Nature Project Wins Gold at Wood Awards
- Voices for Change: A Night of Climate Action
- AI has an ASCII grasshopper problem
Talks
- 10/10/2025 - TDWG 2025
- 15/05/2025 - Urban Nature Network: Bioacoustics and Ecoacoustics
- 22/04/2025 - Urban Research Station launch
- 03/03/2025 - Impacts of Urban Noise
- 22/01/2025 - Acoustics research at the Natural History Museum
Notes
- Prophalangopsis obscura (Walker, 1869)
- Interesting invertebrate conservation projects
- Linux audio recipes
- Acoustics figures
Some thoughts on
Media and Public Engagement
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Natural History Museum deploys sensor network to decode urban biodiversity with AWS Computer Weekly (2025)
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Natural History Museum turns on sensors in high-tech gardens to monitor nature
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The Nature of Tech - Amazon Web Services and the Natural History Museum (2025) - discussing the use of technology in biodiversity research.
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Natural History Museum’s new gardens aim to restore UK’s urban nature New Scientist (2024)
- ITV News (2024) Discussing audio sensor network in NHM Gardens.
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Women’s Institute online (2021) Talk on machine learning and knowledge engineering for insect monitoring, with particular reference to agricultural threats and invasive species.
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Countryfile (May 2021) Discussing the use of acoustic devices (AudioMoth) to monitor the impact of biodiversity actions within a community garden project in Bristol.
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NPR All Things Considered (2020) Discussing recent research on the first evidence of tool use in insects (acoustic baffles made from leaves in Oecanthus tree crickets).
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Chris Packham’s Self-Isolating Bird Club (2020) Discussed bioacoustic monitoring as part of NHM Urban Nature Project.
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The Spider Scientist Who Hates Spiders, And Other Strange Tales - discussing cockroaches.
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Sea The Future voyage (2019) for young people on the tall ship Pelican of London Science team member of the first alongside colleagues from University of Plymouth and University College London. Lead for sessions on electronic sensor development and bioacoustics and assisted with plankton/microplastic sampling and identification, and CTD deployment.
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BBC Earth podcast (2018) Hide and Seek episode discussing camouflage and reproduction of stick insects.
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Royal Institution Christmas Lectures (2017) Advisor on insect sound (and brief appearance) for Sophie Scott’s 2017 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures The Language of Life.
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Blue Roses by Marianna Simnett - animal wrangler for cybernetic cockroaches.
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Presentations to the public at the Natural History Museum about my work as part of the daily Nature Live programme.