We host seminars and workshops throughout the year. Recordings of previous events are available on our YouTube channel.
The Australian Acoustic Observatory: A New Way to Explore and Understand Our World Professor Paul Roe, QUT, Brisbane, Australia [email protected] Abstract The Australian Acoustic Observatory (A2O) is a continental-scale acoustic sensor network, recording for a five-year period across multiple Australian ecosystems. The observatory comprises 360 continuously recording acoustic sensors and over its 5-year lifetime will...
The language spoken by the Northumbrian 'coble' fishing community in the late 20th century contained clues to that community's historical development and to its understanding of place and nature. In this talk, touching on the language of fishing practices and species caught, place names, navigation and visualization of the seabed, taboo words and beliefs, Katrina...
This talk explores the variety of wildlife that makes Socotra (a World Heritage Site) a global hotspot of endemism, dwelling particularly on birds that the speaker has been studying since his first visit in 1993. It will also cover wildlife conservation history and particularly the actions that have been undertaken in the last 20 years.
Some of the largest, most impressive birds in Europe accommodate two kinds of habitat: the realm of nature and the ecosystem of ideas that exists between the ears of their human neighbours. We have sometimes held views and fancies about bird species that vary with geography and across time. Sometimes birds can be seen in...
