On Isle Royale a group of scientists have studied the wolves, the moose and the climate for 58 years. Did you know you can dance to their findings? This project, which took months to produce, is now available online at www.isleroyalewolf.org/sonification. It’s an Internet version of an art project by students at Michigan Tech. Back in 2014, those students decided to …
Sonifying the wolves and moose of Isle Royale: transforming data into music
This is a Must Go Listen too 😉 An example of a rare and special art form called data-driven music or sonification. Imagine an orchestra of instruments. In this orchestra, the musicians playing the instruments are not human. Rather the instruments are played by data – data that has been collected from nature. In this particular case, the music is …
Gov. Rick Snyder could have been a standup Governor and showed support for Michigan Voters
Gov. Rick Snyder could have been a standup guy and showed support for Michigan Voters, Did he? No he is weak, caved under the pressure of greed and has signed a law that would authorize wolf hunting if Congress or federal courts revisit the issue. State lawmakers quickly passed the bill after the Michigan appeals court recently declared a 2014 …
Why Researchers Howl At Wolves—And Why Some Might Stop
For wolf experts, “elicited howling surveys” involve fearlessly imitating what they aim to study. When searching for their subjects out in the field, animal researchers rely on a whole bag of tricks. They might hide in hunting blinds until their species of choice comes by, or pinpoint them with satellites. They can set up nets to catch them, bait them …