December 11th, 2007 andrea
Everything about this binaural recording is wrong: there’s wind noise, sounds of clothing rustling, radically fluctuating audio levels, but somehow when I listen to it (through headphones), I feel like I am right back on that hill:
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December 10th, 2007 andrea
I had the great good fortune to catch Dr. Rick Aster before he left McMurdo. In this interview, Dr. Aster explains the science behind the Iceberg B15A recording in the previous post and several other iceberg recordings he and his colleagues have created. He also talks about the complex movement of waves in earth and the benefits of listening:
Here is a link to more sound files, seismic tremors on Mt. Erebus:
http://www.ees.nmt.edu/Geop/mevo/seismic/tremor.html
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December 9th, 2007 andrea
Dr. Douglas MacAyeal, Professor in the Department of the Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago sent me this moving sound file, as he describes:
“…that’s the sound of Iceberg B15A ‘breaking up’ (off Cape Adare, 27 October, 2005)…it’s really a seismometer record that’s been ‘sped up’ by a factor of 1000 to make it audible.”
Listen here:
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December 8th, 2007 andrea
I had the great honor and pleasure of spending time with Dr. Adam Lewis during his short trip here to be filmed for an upcoming NOVA episode. Here is an interview in two parts, part 2 is my favorite.
Part 1:
Part 2:
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December 8th, 2007 andrea
I had an interesting conversation with Don Voigt of the Pole Net project, an ambitious project to place seismic monitors along the trans-Antarctic mountains. Don talks about his work on the Greenland ice sheet as well:
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