River Listening on Channel 7 News in March 2018 

Brendan Kennedy - Murray River 

Song for the Mardoowarra, Gwen Knox in Collaboration with
​Dr Anne Poelina - Fitzroy River (WA)  

Traditional Storytelling by Lyndon Davis (Kabi Kabi) - Mary River (QLD) 

"Listening to the Thames" - River Listening Launch in London, 2014

Scientific Sound Samples and Images from River Listening 

Beetles: Dytyscidae

Image: ​Gail Hampshire, UK

Beetles: Gyrinidae

Image: Dr Simon Linke recording gyrinid beetle in Barney Creek, Queensland

Fish: Spangled Grunter
​(Leiopotherapon unicolor) 

Recorded on Talaroo Station, North Queensland
​(Image by Michael Hammer, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory)

Fish: Sooty Grunter
​(Hephaestus fuliginosus)

Recorded on Talaroo Station, North Queensland
​(Image by Michael Hammer, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory)

Fish: Barred Grunter
​(Amniataba percoides)

Recorded on Talaroo Station, North Queensland
​(Image by Michael Hammer, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory)

Hemiptera (True Bugs)

Chorus of bugs and beetles in the Mary River, Queensland.
Image: Leah Barclay
Dr Simon Linke recording with hydrophones on the Mary River (Image: Leah Barclay)
Dr Leah Barclay installing hydrophones in the Noosa River, Queensland
Hydrophones in the Water at Talaroo Station, North Queensland
Biosphere Soundscapes is an interdisciplinary research project working in collaboration with multiple organisations and institutions across the USA, South America, Australia, Europe, India, Indonesia and Cambodia. The project was endorsed by the UNESCO MAB Program in 2013 and is currently based at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia. 
We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we are conducting this research and pay our respect to the Elders, past, present, and emerging and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. 
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