BIOSPHERE SOUNDSCAPES WORKSHOPS
The Biosphere Soundscapes laboratory and workshop supports our residency program with a multi-platform research phase in collaboration with the community of each biosphere reserve. The labs have a scientific research focus and a more specific structure with research questions about an environmental issue within the proposed biosphere reserve. The labs are developed through a separate virtual interface that is used for biodiversity analysis. Biosphere Soundscapes Labs can monitor the impact of noise pollution on local species, study environmental changes through aquatic and terrestrial bioacoustics and implement a wide range of interdisciplinary projects monitoring the biosphere reserve through sound.
We have conducted labs across the Asia-Pacific, Mexico and Europe. While the labs do not have an application process for artistic collaborations, we welcome participation from the local community. Our residency program involves biosphere reserves hosting a series of research labs prior to the residency, so we welcome biosphere reserves across the world to enquire about hosting local labs. These programs are developed in collaboration with our team and tailored to the specific needs of your community.
Join our 2019 lab in the Riverland Biosphere Reserve in South Australia, visit the page here.
We have conducted labs across the Asia-Pacific, Mexico and Europe. While the labs do not have an application process for artistic collaborations, we welcome participation from the local community. Our residency program involves biosphere reserves hosting a series of research labs prior to the residency, so we welcome biosphere reserves across the world to enquire about hosting local labs. These programs are developed in collaboration with our team and tailored to the specific needs of your community.
Join our 2019 lab in the Riverland Biosphere Reserve in South Australia, visit the page here.
FEATURED LAB: SIAN KA'AN BIOSPHERE RESERVE, 2015
Sian Ka'an is a biosphere reserve in the municipality of Tulum in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo. It was established in 1986 and became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987. With the participation of scientists, technicians, students, fishermen, farmers, rural promotors and administrators, together with regional and international partners, they have successfully carried out more than 200 conservation projects basing all conservation actions on scientific and technical information for planning and implementing environmental policies and the proposal of viable solutions for sustainable use of natural resources and focusing their efforts established within eight protected natural areas that include the reefs of Banco Chinchorro, and Xcalak at South of Quintana Roo, Sian Ka'an Biosphere Reserve, Cancun, the island of Cozumel that is located in front of Xcaret and Contoy Island up North, covering 780,000 acres (3,200 km2). These areas lie in parts of all seven Caribbean Sea coastal municipalities of the state, with the largest part being in eastern Felipe Carrillo Puerto Municipality, where the vast majority of Sian Ka'an Biosphere Reserve lies.
The reserve also includes some 23 known archaeological sites of the Maya civilization including Muyil. Within the Amigos de Sian Ka'an project objectives are the identification, protection and management of additional areas with high biodiversity value as well as those critical for maintenance of the life cycles of endangered, threatened and migratory species in the Riviera Maya and providing environmental education through books, journals and pamphlets and giving technical assistance and training to Mayan communities working with ecotourism.
Biosphere Soundscapes worked in collaboration with Fonoteca Nacional de México and our Associate Producer Emmanuel Galvan Martinez to deliver the first Biosphere Soundscape Lab in Mexico in May and June 2015 leading into our Biosphere Soundscapes Residency programs in October 2015.
The reserve also includes some 23 known archaeological sites of the Maya civilization including Muyil. Within the Amigos de Sian Ka'an project objectives are the identification, protection and management of additional areas with high biodiversity value as well as those critical for maintenance of the life cycles of endangered, threatened and migratory species in the Riviera Maya and providing environmental education through books, journals and pamphlets and giving technical assistance and training to Mayan communities working with ecotourism.
Biosphere Soundscapes worked in collaboration with Fonoteca Nacional de México and our Associate Producer Emmanuel Galvan Martinez to deliver the first Biosphere Soundscape Lab in Mexico in May and June 2015 leading into our Biosphere Soundscapes Residency programs in October 2015.
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