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Assessing the effect of soundscape composition on bird vocalization classification

Interest in ecoacoustics has resulted in an influx of acoustic data and novel methodologies to classify and relate landscape sound activity to biodiversity and ecosystem health.

Dr. Clark and colleagues in South Africa
Professor Clark conducts biodiveristy research in South Africa

Professor Matthew Clark is working on a new research project, funded by a NASA grant, in the Cape region of South Africa. This project, called BioSoundSCapes, uses bioacoustics to assess biodiversity.

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Professor Clark receives CAL FIRE funding for Wildfire Severity Modeling Research

Professor Matthew Clark has received new funding from CAL FIRE that will seek to assess where high severity wildfires will occur in California using satellite and other spatial data, such as winds.

Dr. Hernandez Ayala
Dr. Hernandez Ayala quoted in the Washington Post

Prof. Hernandez helped make the case that climate change fueled the historic 2020 hurricane season’s rainfall. Read the full article

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Clark: Monitoring vegetation cover in protected areas at regional scales

We determined protected area coverage and woody vegetation change in Latin America and the Caribbean at biome and ecoregion scales, for the years 2001 to 2010.