The Eclipse Soundscapes Project is a NASA Citizen Science project funded by NASA Science Activation that is studying how eclipses affect life on Earth during the October 14, 2023 annular solar eclipse and the April 8, 2024 total solar eclipse. Eclipse Soundscapes will revisit an eclipse study from almost 100 years ago that showed that animals and insects are affected by solar eclipses! Like this study from 100 years ago, ES will ask for the public’s help. ES will also use modern technology to continue to study how solar eclipses affect life on Earth!
3,373 ES Observers submitted their observations from April 8-15!
ES Data Collector sign-up and device registration (ES ID # assignment) are both required. Device registration can be completed after the eclipse but must be completed before data submission. Data submission requires that information be submitted online as well as physically, by mailing a MicroSD card. Therefore, preliminary participation numbers will be available at the end of April and final participation numbers will be available in the months after the eclipse once data receipt has been confirmed.
ES APPRENTICES
3,425 Completed Role in 2024
ES OBSERVERS
3,373 Observations Submitted!
ES DATA COLLECTORS
1,310 Signed-Up
770 Devices Registered 394 Submitted Online Location Notes 6 MicroSD cards Received (as of 4/16)
Submit your observations & data!
ES Observers
April 8th Multi-sensory Observations
Eclipse Soundscapes Observation Submission has closed. Thank you for all of your submissions! We received 3,373!
ES Data Collectors
Submit Location info online & Mail your MicroSD card.
We are in the process of receiving your amazing online and physical data via the online location form and mailed-in MicroSD cards. The list below is NOT complete. We have hundreds of MicroSD cards to sort. Please be patient and check back often! We will let you know via our Data Collector email list when we the list below is complete!
A Google Sheet will load below. We have almost 1000 Data Collectors registered with ES ID numbers! So the list is long. We have hidden the ES ID #s for which we currently have no data logged to make scrolling easier. You can also open the Google Spreadsheet in a separate tab by Clicking here to review 2024 Audio Data Receipt Info.
The table below shows all of the location info received online and all MicroSD cards recieved in our mailbox as of May 2, 2024.
If you have trouble accessing the table below, please email us at info@EclipseSoundscapes.org.
What's Next?
Be an Active member of our Learning Community!
Eclipse Soundscapes collected lots of observations and sound data from the October 14, 2023, annular solar eclipse and the April 8, 2024, total solar eclipse! The sound data and observations collected will help us understand the impact of the 2023 and 2024 solar eclipses on various U.S. ecosystems. Receiving, processing, and sharing all of this data will take some time. We will be scheduling updates webinars and sharing updates on this process via social media and the updates email list. We hope you stay involved!
Post Eclipse Webinar: Participation Stats & Data Processing Insights
Visit the “Data Processing” Tab to watch the recording and/or view the presentation slides.
Data Analysis
We need your help analyzing audio data! Eclipse Soundscapes collected lots of sound data from the October 14, 2023, annular solar eclipse and the April 8, 2024, total solar eclipse! The sound data collected will help us understand the impact of the 2023 and 2024 solar eclipses on various U.S. ecosystems. First computers will analyze the audio data to determine which locations had a significant change in soundscape during Totality. Then we need your help to figure out what exactly those sounds are! When the Data Analyst role is available, we will email everyone on the ES Data Analyst updates list.
The audio data receiving and processing process consists of several stages, with us currently being in Stage 1.
Stage 1 involves:
Receiving online location notes and processing them based on location, including determining the maximum eclipse phase for each location.
Receiving and sorting MicroSD cards based on eclipse type and whether we’ve received online location notes.
Updating a spreadsheet to publicly share the information received from participants. Visit the “Did you receive my data” tab to view this spreadsheet.
Post Eclipse Webinar: Participation Stats & Data Processing Insights
Recorded 4/30/2024
In this webinar following the 2024 eclipse, the Eclipse Soundscapes (ES) team discusses the participation numbers for the Eclipse Soundscapes Project and explains Stage 1 of initial data processing, which involves receiving online location information and physical MicroSD cards from ES Data Collectors and organizing and sorting those submissions to prepare for audio data upload and computer processing.
To view the Google Slides used in this webinar click here.
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