We're creating a new podcast about sound, the biodiversity crisis and the shifting world order
We are excited to announce that Climate Sound & Society Director Kara Oehler has received a grant from the Carlsberg Foundation to create “The Climate Sound Podcast.”
This grant is part of Carlsberg Foundation’s “Science Communication” initiative, which funds “new initiatives giving a voice to science in various formats that will be freely accessible to anyone interested” with an aim to “lift research out of the scientific laboratories and libraries and bring it to a broader audience.”
What if the key to the planet’s biodiversity crisis is… listening? The Climate Sound Podcast drops us straight into the science of bioacoustics. Made in collaboration with the University of Copenhagen’s Behavioural Ecology Group, this 10-part podcast series turns cutting-edge research into immersive stories that illuminate listening as a vital part of addressing the global biodiversity crisis.
Participants
Kara Oehler
Kara Oehler is Director of Climate Sound & Society at metaLAB at Harvard and an artist-in-residence at Third Ear. Integrating climate and biodiversity journalism and policy with sound-based scientific researchers and artists from around the world, Climate Sound & Society works in partnership with institutions such as metaLAB(at)Harvard and University of Copenhagen, Museum of the United Nations and Ours to Protect (Ireland). She is also an embedded journalist with the Behavioural Ecology Group at University of Copenhagen. Oehler’s work appears in The New York Times Magazine, RadioLab, The Atlantic, Morning Edition, the Center for Investigative Reporting, Museum of Modern Art NY and others and has been recognized by Peabody, Rockefeller United States Artists, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and others. Oehler has co-founded and led multiple pioneering, interdisciplinary organizations, including Climate Sound & Society, metaLAB(at)Harvard, Zeega, COVID Tracking Project at The Atlantic and UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art.
Emma Baumhofer
Emma Baumhofer is a transdisciplinary designer and researcher based in Lugano, Switzerland. Her work draws on history and place, using sound and good friction to cultivate attention and care. She collaborates with peacebuilders, academics, and technologists on prosocial design and public engagement projects, and leads workshops and lectures on practice-based methods and research. Emma is currently conducting fieldwork on urban wetland soundscapes in Ticino and developing an installation on amphibian migration and shared ecologies. Previously, she led the digital peacebuilding portfolio at swisspeace and was a Senior Digital Consultant at Media Frontier in Geneva. She holds degrees in interaction design, international history, anthropology, and English.