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Dear Reader,
When Heather OβLeary, 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, βdead fish,β she got creative. Reaching out to a music professor, she asked him a straightforward question: Could he make her findings β¦ sing? βI'm studying climate change and whatβs going down at the coral reefs,β the USFβs director of bands remembers her saying. βAnd Iβve got all this data and Iβd like to know if thereβs any way that we can turn it into music.βΒ
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 βto spread awareness about the algae blooms, data literacy and democratizing science,β according to an NPR story. βComposition professor Paul Reller worked with students to map pitch, rhythm and duration to the data,β 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 didnβt necessarily. Curious to give the music a listen?
Letβs sing the praises of these incredible Climate Champs!
Musically,
Dot
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