27 June 2012 Answers to the Sounds of Science

Here are the answers to yesterday's audio journal.

Sound 1

You were listening to a wind turbine on the hill above camp that is used to generate electricity for operating science equipment in the field.

Listen: Windmill

Sound 2

This is your basic "TundraA treeless area between the icecap and the tree line of arctic regions, having a permanently frozen subsoil and supporting low-growing vegetation such as lichens, mosses, and stunted shrubs. Slog" as your boots squish through the soggy landscape. This was recorded the night I went into the field with the bird crew.

Listen: TundraA treeless area between the icecap and the tree line of arctic regions, having a permanently frozen subsoil and supporting low-growing vegetation such as lichens, mosses, and stunted shrubs. Slog

Sound 3

This one was recorded at the Museum of the North in Fairbanks. The museum's website describes this exhibit as "a unique sound and light environment created by composer John Luther Adams. This ever-changing musical ecosystem gives voice to the rhythms of daylight and darkness, the phases of the moon, the seismic vibrations of the earth and the dance of the aurora borealis, in real time."

Listen: The Place Where You Go To Listen