K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics

12/24/2024

Partnership and collaboration are at the heart of conservation bioacoustics for species and ecosystems. We are honored to be a part of this initiative.

07/23/2024

We are excited about our collaboration with NPS on this unique project. Congratulations to the Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve crew for a successful recovery of the recording units.

06/18/2024

06/08/2024

🌊 Celebrate World Oceans Day with WOPAM! 🌊

WOPAM (World Oceans Passive Acoustic Monitoring) is a groundbreaking project where 180+ collaborators from over 400+ locations worldwide recorded underwater sounds on World Oceans Day. This year, these sounds have been transformed into a unique song by musician Alejandro Bernal, using only animal sounds from our recordings.

🔊 Discover the beautiful symphony of underwater life from places like Mozambique, the Great Barrier Reef, Virgin Islands, and the Red Sea. From Minke whales to Ambon Damselfish, Toadfish, and mysterious animal sounds, dive into the fascinating world beneath the waves.

Are you a bioacoustician, artist, musician, or conservationist? Join us in our interdisciplinary efforts! Contact us at WO-PAM.com or [email protected].

Special thanks to our collaborators and partners, including AIMS, the Richard Lounsbery Foundation, and the International Quiet Ocean Experiment.

🎶 Listen to "Primero estaba el mar - In the beginning was the sea" on SoundCloud and WO-PAM.com.

01/17/2024

Training opportunity in the Pantanal wetland (Brazil, Paraguay, and Bolivia)!
Learn and apply acoustic monitoring in your conservation/biodiversity research with our 1-y Mentoring and Training program! Submit a proposal by Feb 25th! Info: website...

https://www.birds.cornell.edu/ccb/8813-2/

11/06/2023

Join us in a collaborative effort to study migratory birds along the East Asian-Australasian Flyway. Your participation can help fill crucial knowledge gaps and contribute to the conservation of these incredible species. Application period is now open until November 15, 2023! 🐦

For more details on how to get involved, visit: [https://www.birds.cornell.edu/ccb/a-study-of-migratory-birds-in-the-east-asian-flyway/](https://www.birds.cornell.edu/ccb/a-study-of-migratory-birds-in-the-east-asian-flyway/)

09/18/2023

📣 Attention aspiring conservationists! The K. Payne Fellows Program at the K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics is now OPEN. 🌳🐦

🌏 Focused on Conservation Bioacoustics in Indonesia & Malaysia.
📝 Apply now to make an impact!

🔗 More info: [tinyurl.com/kpaynefp]

08/29/2023

https://phys.org/news/2023-08-audio-technique-census-california-owls.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=topic%2Flifesciences

For the first time, researchers have estimated the spotted owl population across the entire Sierra Nevada ecosystem. The analysis, which was led by researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics, suggests th...

07/27/2023

11/30/2022

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2022/11/unique-fellowship-honors-bioacoustics-pioneer

Philanthropist K. Lisa Yang ’74 has endowed $1.5 million to establish the Katharine B. Payne Fellows Program in Conservation Bioacoustics in honor of Katy Payne ’59, a pioneer in the burgeoning science of bioacoustics.

11/11/2022

The Cornell Daily Sun published an article titled “Cornell Researcher Builds Groundbreaking Machine Learning Toolkit For Bioacoustics” featuring Dr. Shyam Madhusudhana, a postdoctoral researcher in Yang Center. In this article Shyam discussed how machine learning tools are aiding bioacoustics research of blue whales and beyond.

A recent breakthrough has been made in bio-acoustic deep learning techniques — a method for automated detection of animal sounds — at Cornell’s K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics. Dr…