Students present preliminary results of eclipse study at Northeast Natural History conference.
Students Kelsey Simler (Conservation Biology ’25) and Jessica Harman (2027) presented a poster with very preliminary results of a study investigating the effects of a total solar eclipse on the acoustic soundscape at the forest-wetland interface in St. Lawrence County, New York. The poster, co-authored by Evelyn Albrecht (Biology 2025), Dr. Matt Higham (SLU Math, Computer Science, and Statistics) and Dr. Erika Barthelmess, included hot-off-the-press micro-results from the April 8, 2024 total solar eclipse. The team deployed AudioMoth automated recording at 20 sites near campus to measure the bioacoustic soundscape leading up to, during, and following the eclipse.