On November 6, 2024, Eclipse Soundscapes hosted a community webinar where attendees explored the emotional and scientific impacts of the Eclipse Soundscapes project through an insightful interview with Dr. Kelly Lynn Mulvey, Associate Professor of Psychology at North Carolina State University. Dr. Mulvey shared how the project increased participants' sense of belonging in science-especially for female-identifying individuals-and evoked powerful feelings of awe, particularly for those closer to the path of totality. The recording of this engaging session is now available to watch and learn more about the transformative role of participatory science in fostering connections to science and wonder.
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 asks for the public’s help. ES uses modern technology to continue to study how solar eclipses affect life on Earth! You can learn more at www.EclipseSoundscapes.org.
Eclipse Soundscapes is an enterprise of ARISA Lab, LLC and is supported by NASA award No. 80NSSC21M0008.