Bioacoustics

But after that, he took the leap.

After working on Apocalypse Now, I went back to school, got my PhD in bioacoustics, and I've never looked back.

Bioacoustics.

It's what you get when you take the science of living things and blend it with the love of recordings and sound.

Bioacousticians are trying to understand how organisms make sound, how they put it out into the world, and how the world and everything in it receives that sound.

We're interested in documenting what's here before all of this big change happens, and we're trying to do that all through sound work.

Bioacoustics is a scientific discipline that is the study of the sounds of the natural world.

It brings together ecology, biology, and animal communication, engineering, and machine learning.

So we have, uh, recorders, like, on top of mountains.

Renat's face pinched as she logged the missing crew on her pad.

Dr. Imelda Voss, station supervisor, Felix Haber, technician, Dana Jules, bioacoustician, Laurie Tran, grad student, and Andrew Clifford, the station's cook and security detail.

She recited the names, but it felt ritual, not record.

A whiteboard behind the door shouted, six days until milestone, in dry erase marker, with tally marks and symbols I didn't recognize.