Nature Overheard

What’s it about?

Insects are important for a healthy environment, but noise can make it hard for them to communicate with each other. They may have to change their sounds to be heard in noisy places.

Join us to collect data to better understand how road noise affect insects through the Nature Overheard survey. Or take part in other activities to support this research while you build your own scientific skills and knowledge.

Links

• The Natural History Museum is asking for the public’s help with a major new community science project ‘Nature Overheard’ this Earth Day. Original NHM Press Release.
• Nature Overheard - Tune in to your streets. Natural History Museum.
• Noisy neighbours: Listening in to nature in cities and towns. Natural History Museum.
• Know your nature sounds?. Natural History Museum.

Press

• Insect Orchestra article for NHM website.
• Natural History Museum launches new project for Earth Day. Evening Standard.

Naked Scientists

Earth Day 2023’s Nature Overheard project. Interview with Abigail Lowe. Naked Scientists podcast.

See Also

FlyTunes a crowd-sourcing project to identify the contents of sound clips for machine learning identification methods.

Tools

NHMDE for Preprocessing Nature Overheard data using the NHMDE R package to analyse Nature Overheard data.