What are we doing?

Purdue University’s Discovery Park Center for Global Soundscapes is embarking on a huge, continental scale project aimed to understand how animals will respond to the solar eclipse that will be occurring across much of the United States and Canada on Monday, August 21, 2017. Acoustic sensors recording from Alaska to Puerto Rico will collect audio data to help scientists to understand how an important cue like the sun affects the acoustic behavior animals like birds, crickets, cicadas, and frogs. Science museum educators, state park managers, national park scientists, and zoo personnel from across the continents are assisting to collect acoustic recordings and observations of sonic changes. A citizen science app called Record the Earth will allow anyone to record the sounds before, during, and after the eclipse. Data from scientists and citizen scientists are being sent to the Purdue center for analysis.

This web site provides background information for people interested in helping or learning about this rare study.