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Forum on Ecoacoustics

This event has ended. It was scheduled for 1/25/2023.

6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 25

Auditorium

In-Person Event

Join composer/sound artist/ecoacoustician Matthew Burtner in this publc forum convening a panel of scientists and artists for a discussion on how ecoacoustic methods can be applied to sound, music, science and community engagement in Alaska. 

Panelists include University of Alaska Fairbanks Microbiology Professor and Founder/Director of the arts-humanities-science collaborative program “In a Time of Change” Mary Beth Leigh; Associate Professor of Wildlife Ecology and Chair of Wildlife Program Institute of Arctic Biology & Department of Biology and Wildlife Todd J. Brinkman;  Marine Ecologist Christina Bonsell of the US Department of the Interior Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Alaska Region; and orca whale expert Hannah Myers, a PhD student at the UAF College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences.

Presented as part of the Anchorage Museum’s "Pass the Mic" sound experience in conjunction with the Alaska Marine Science Symposium.