Listening Across the Tree of Life
with Karen Bakker
3 December 2022, 16:00 GMT / 11:00 EDT/ 08:00 PST
Listening Across the Tree of Life
Digital technologies have enabled bio-acousticians and eco-acousticians to make remarkable breakthroughs in the study of nature's sounds. This lecture presents research discussed in Karen Bakker's most recent book: The Sounds of Life: How Digital Technologies are Bringing Us Closer to the Worlds of Animals and Plants, Princeton University Press. Bakker shares fascinating research findings from recent bioacoustics studies of turtles, coral, bats, and even plants. Join us to learn how scientists are mobilizing bioacoustics and ecoacoustics for environmental conservation and ecosystem regeneration. How does this enrich current scientific research on interspecies communication?
About the Speaker
Karen Bakker (1971-2023) was a Professor at the University of British Columbia, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a Fellow of Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (2022/23). Her research explored the interplay between digital innovation, environmental change, governance, and sustainability. The author of more than 100 academic articles, she conducted fieldwork on four continents.
Bakker was a past Board Member of the International Institute for Sustainable Development, and a member of the United Nations Coalition on Digital Environmental Sustainability (CODES). She was the author of the award-winning book The Sounds of Life: How Digital Technologies are Bringing Us Closer to the Worlds of Animals and Plants (Princeton University Press, 2022).
