Soundscapes to Monitor Habitat Development on Restored Cranberry Farmland

During the first week of October, we returned to Eel River, Tidmarsh, and Foothills to retrieve our acoustic recorders. After years of losing devices to vandalism and weather, it was a relief to find every single one intact. Now the fun begins: processing over 1,230 hours of sound to explore the ecological complexity of these recovering wetland landscapes.
Erica Cai and Leo Kertz (pictured below) will be using the sounds for their honors thesis, assessing soundscape differences across sites and how the landscape context affects the sounds within the wetlands.