"Chasing Wild Sounds" Program with Richard Nelson and Hank Lentfer

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"Chasing Wild Sounds" Program with Richard Nelson and Hank Lentfer

Richard Nelsonand Hank Lentfer will be featured at the next Natural History Seminar series presentation titled "Chasing Wild Sounds"December 5th, 7:30pmat UAS. Nelson and Lentfer will discuss their project "Voices of Glacier Bay National Park", an effort to create a library documenting natural sounds from the park, including everything from the subtle scratches of a crab claws on sand grains to the reverberating trumpets of humpback whales echoing across the bay.

If you have questions, please contact Kitty LaBounty at 747-9432 orkitty.labounty@uas.alaska.edu

Funding for the seminar series is provided by a grant to the Sitka Sound Science Center by the Sitka Permanent Charitable Trust and by the University of Alaska Southeast.

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