Join Today: Eclipse Soundscapes Project (video)

The Eclipse Soundscapes Project is a NASA Citizen Science project funded by NASA Science Activation that is studying how eclipses affect life on Earth during the April 8, 2024 total solar eclipse. Eclipse Soundscapes will revisit an eclipse study from almost 100 years ago that showed that animals and insects are affected by solar eclipses! Like this study from 100 years ago, Eclipse Soundscapes has asked for the public's help. Eclipse Soundscapes will use modern technology to continue to study how solar eclipses affect life on Earth! (Say "Eclipse Soundscapes" five times fast!)

So, how can you help Eclipse Soundscapes? Eclipse Soundscapes will be collecting your multi-sensory observations and recorded sound data (through an audiomoth - free with application!) from the April 8, 2024 total solar eclipse. The observations and sound data collected will help Eclipse Soundscapes understand the impact of the 2024 solar eclipses on various U.S. ecosystems.

How you can participate in the Eclipse Soundscapes Project:

Eclipse Soundscapes

There are many different ways you can participate in the Eclipse Soundscapes Project and support its scientific mission. You can choose just one role or several of the roles linked below. 

Eclipse Soundscapes recommends that ALL participants complete the Apprentice role first, which is free and online. After that, you can choose to engage in any of the other roles. All are very important to the success of the Eclipse Soundscapes Project!

To learn more about Eclipse Soundscapes Project and how you can participate visit here: https://eclipsesoundscapes.org/roles/

Need a spot to observe or want to organize a group to complete Project? Reach out to Breeka Li Goodlander with the Conservation Department and be sure to check out any of our Conservation Areas or Lands throughout Town. You'll be sure to see or hear something. 

Best Fishes and Worm Regards,

Your Friendly Neighborhood Scientist

Eclipse Soundscapes is an enterprise of ARISA Lab, LLC and is supported by NASA award No. 80NSSC21M0008.

Shared from -> https://www.franklinma.gov/conservation/news/join-today-eclipse-soundscapes-project

The Guardian: "Sound is fundamental in the ocean and Arctic animals"

"An expedition of scientists and an artist is deploying underwater microphones in the ocean off Greenland to record and preserve the soundscape of melting icebergs.

The hydrophones will record sounds every hour for two years before being collected, harvested for data and the recordings turned into an acoustic composition.

The instruments are being lowered to different levels and temperatures to record earthquakes, landslides, wildlife, pollution and meltwater, creating an archive of the “ocean’s memory”."

Continue reading The Guardian article online (subscription may be required)

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/19/microphones-dropped-into-ocean-off-greenland-to-record-melting-icebergs

An iceberg off eastern Greenland. Hydrophones are being lowered to different levels and temperatures to record earthquakes, landslides, wildlife, pollution and meltwater, creating an archive of the ‘ocean’s memory’. Photograph: Felipe Dana/AP