I mean, that's, I think also the possibility is, or, you know, importance of capturing these soundscapes is because they're changing.

And, you know, sound is a measure of change.

And so what this soundscape is today versus what it will be in 50 or 100 years,

you know, we will be very, very different.

And so I think there's value in capturing that

and being able to reflect back on what it was and how it's changed,

whether it's, you know, maybe in a lovely future,

it's a more diverse soundscape or it's more pristine because we've

reduced some of the human kind of inputs, or maybe it's the opposite where it's degraded

and it's not as natural.

But I think we can measure, again, our impact on the environment through studying that historical piece and how we shift our behavior is either good or bad in the future.

That was Aaron Marburger.

She's the Senior Education Director and Director of Climate and Sustainability at the Anchorage Museum.

And for the last six years, Aaron, museum staff, and schools and communities have been collecting soundscapes from around Alaska.

Anchorage at first, and then other locations like Nanana, Nuixit,

portage, Saldovia, Sitka, and Saldatna. They recorded sounds from rivers to traffic.

Everything that punctuates an otherwise quiet environment, because much can be learned from these sounds.

Weather patterns, animal behavior, human activity, it all shapes the world we live in, both natural and man-made.

How about climate change, though? Does that have a sound? This is a question Aaron has been

thinking about a lot lately. She says that one way we hear it is in the lack of sound, an animal that no

longer exists in a certain area, for example.

Acoustic phenology, the study of how climate affects plants, animals, and microbes,

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