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
Orthoptera
Orthoptera (grasshoppers, crickets, and katydids) are one of the most acoustically diverse insect orders. Many species communicate using sound, making them ideal subjects for bioacoustic research.
Publications
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Reviving the sound of a 150-year-old insect: The bioacoustics of Prophalangopsis obscura (Ensifera: Hagloidea) (2022) PLOS ONE
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Bioacoustics and systematics of Mecopoda (and related forms) from South East Asia and adjacent areas (2021) Zootaxa
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From an old sound recording to a new species in the genus Horatosphaga (2017) Zootaxa
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Natural History Museum Sound Archive I: Orthoptera: Gryllotalpidae Leach, 1815, including 3D scans of burrow casts of Gryllotalpa gryllotalpa Linnaeus, 1758 (2015) Biodiversity Data Journal
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Speckled Bush Cricket Data Logger - Project Report (2015) figshare
Related Notes
External Resources
- BioAcoustica - Sound recordings of Orthoptera and other insects