What Does A Healthy Rainforest Sound Like? (encore)

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🗓️ 10 December 2021

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

On a rapidly changing planet, there are many ways to measure the health of an ecosystem. Can sound be one of them?

Researcher Sarab Sethi explains how machine learning and soundscape recordings could be used to predict ecosystem health around the world.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Shortwave.
0:03.6	From NPR.
0:05.2	A couple of years ago, scientist Serab Setty found himself in a tropical rainforest in Borneo,
0:11.6	in Ireland and Southeast Asia.
0:13.8	He was part of a team installing solar panels on the tops of trees above the tree canopy,
0:19.0	a good place for those panels to soak up sunlight and power some very special devices, more
0:24.4	on those in a moment.
0:25.7	How high are we talking?
0:27.7	The highest I've been is up to 40 or 50 meters.
0:31.4	Oh my god.
0:32.8	Yeah.
0:33.8	40, 50.
0:34.8	I want to look that up.
0:36.8	164 feet?
0:38.8	Yeah, yeah.
0:40.6	It's pretty hairy.
0:42.4	If you haven't got a head for heights, then.
0:45.6	Thankfully, he does.
0:47.6	But here's the thing you should know about Serab.
0:50.2	He's a postdoctoral researcher at Imperial College London and describes himself as, quote,
0:55.4	not a camper type of person.
0:58.0	Having grown up in a city environment his whole life, he's more accustomed to honking
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