Reporting from Yellowstone National Park
The Acoustic Atlas partners with Yellowstone National Park to bring you informative, audio-rich content chronicling some of the latest scientific research coming out of the park.
Telemetry: The sound of science in Yellowstone National Park, is a public radio-style podcast helping to transmit some of the park's scientific investigations to listeners, wherever they are. "Telemetry" is the wireless transmission of information, often via radio waves, from one location to another. Go on a sound safari in the world's first national park for surprising stories and in-depth reporting that highlight science and issues in the region. Learn more about Telemetry from Yellowstone National Park.
In addition to Telemetry, Yellowstone National Park's Audio Postcards offer vignettes of life in Yellowstone: short stories that help connect us to each other and to this very special place. Take a minute or two and get lost in the rich stories and soundscapes of the park. Learn more about Yellowstone National Park's Audio Postcards.
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AUDIO Postcard: Winter Wolves
It's wolf mating season here at Yellowstone, which also means it's the peak howling season. Biological Technician Rick McIntyre puts this ethereal winter sound into perspective within the history of Yellowstone National Park...
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AUDIO Postcard: Snipe Hunt
In the Spring, when many of Yellowstone's grassy meadows are flooded and marshy, a peculiar sound rises out of the gathering dark of nightfall...
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AUDIO Postcard: Singing Lake
It's December 17, 2013 and Yellowstone Lake is icing over. Maintenance Supervisor Bruce Sefton walks us down to the lake to listen to a rare, wintertime song...
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AUDIO Postcard: In a Rut
Male bison "bellow" in order to announce their presence and establish dominance in a herd. During the mating season or "rut," bellowing becomes more prevalent, creating a signature sound of midsummer in Yellowstone...
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AUDIO Postcard: Coyote Howls Echo at Blacktail Pond
A middle-of-the-night chorus of coyote yips and howls near Blacktail Ponds in Yellowstone National Park...
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Telemetry: To Catch a Loon (Episode 1)
What do scientists do when they're racing to understand what's happening to the most isolated Common loon population in North America? Whatever it takes...
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Telemetry: One Fish, Two Fish (Episode 2)
Back in 1870, a member of the Washburn Expedition wrote in his diary about the Yellowstone cutthroat trout: "Two men could catch them faster than half a dozen could clean and get them ready for the frying pan...
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Telemetry: Cougar M198 (Episode 3)
In 2016, one of Yellowstone's marked mountain lions went missing. Scientists traveled deep into the park to investigate...
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Reburn: The Maple Fire Story (Telemetry, Episode 4)
On August 8, 2016, a lightning strike ignited a small fire on the edge of Yellowstone National Park near the community of West Yellowstone...
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Telemetry: The Value of One Wolf (Episode 5)
Wolf researcher Kira Cassidy likes to say that when Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book in 1894 and included the famous line 'For the strength of the Wolf is the Pack and the strength of the Pack is the Wolf,' he would have had no idea that over a century later, scientific research would back up his poetic phrase...
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Telemetry:What Lies Below (Episode 6)
People travel from all over the world to see Yellowstone's famous geysers, colorful hot springs, burbling mud pots, and hissing fumaroles...
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Telemetry: Vital Signs (Episode 7)
"Vital signs," like blood pressure and pulse rate, are used in medicine to track human health. Paying attention to the little things can often help us better understand what's going on in the big picture...
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Telemetry: Tigers of Yellowstone (Episode 8)
Did you know there are tigers in Yellowstone? It just takes a keen eye to observe them. These creatures--and countless others like them--live in a world that's not always obvious, but the role they play in Yellowstone is huge...
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