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Dear Reader,
When Heather O’Leary, a University of South Florida anthropology professor, realized that few outside her field would even bother to read her research paper despite the importance of its findings on the coastal climate impacts of algal blooms and, as she put it, “dead fish,” she got creative. Reaching out to a music professor, she asked him a straightforward question: Could he make her findings … sing? “I'm studying climate change and what’s going down at the coral reefs,” the USF’s director of bands remembers her saying. “And I’ve got all this data and I’d like to know if there’s any way that we can turn it into music.”
He recruited other professors, students, and departments. And now they call themselves CRESCENDO (Communicating Research Expansively through Sonification and Community-Engaged Neuroaesthetic Data-literacy Opportunities), and they say they want “to spread awareness about the algae blooms, data literacy and democratizing science,” according to an NPR story. “Composition professor Paul Reller worked with students to map pitch, rhythm and duration to the data,” the story continues. The whole thing came alive, the academics say, in ways it simply does not on a spreadsheet. The music students saw patterns in the data that the
researchers didn’t necessarily. Curious to give the music a listen?
Let’s sing the praises of these incredible Climate Champs!
Musically,
Dot
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