The Nature of Sound

Resources

general
- Acoustical Society of America (ASA)
  - The Wave Theory of Sound
- Discovery of Sound in the Sea (DOSITS)
- The Freesound Project
- PALAOA - Transmitting live from the Ocean below the Antarctic Ice, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI)
- Pulse of the Planet, two minute sound portraits from planet earth (alternate URL at National Geographic)
animals
- Animal Psychophysics (chinchillas)
- Bioacoustics Research Program (BRP), Cornell University
  - Birds
  - Elephants
  - Whales
- Echolocation in Dolphins and Bats, Whitlow W. L. Au, and James A. Simmons, Physics Today. (September 2007).
- Fauna Communications Research Institute
- Great Whales Foundation
- Hearing in Vertebrates: A Psychophysics Databook. Fay, Richard R., et al. Winnetka, IL: Hill-Fay Associates, 1988.
- Last Word Archive: Rain on the Plain (elephants)
- Low Frequency and Infrasonic Vocalizations From Tigers
- Ocean Mammal Institute (OMI)
- Salish Sea Hydrophone Network (orcasound.net)
- Scripps Whale Acoustic Lab, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego
  - Voices in the Sea (voicesinthesea.org)
- Springer Handbook of Auditory Research
  - Comparative Hearing, 1994
  - Comparative Hearing: Birds and Reptiles, 2000
  - Comparative Hearing: Fish and Amphibians, 1998
  - Comparative Hearing: Insects, 1998
  - Comparative Hearing: Mammals. 1994
  - Evolution of the Vertebrate Auditory System, 2004
  - Fish Bioacoustics, 2008
  - Hearing by Whales and Dolphins, 2000
  - Hearing and Sound Communication in Amphibians, 2006
- Turtle's Hearing Test
- Whales & Marine Animals, National Resources Defence Council (NRDC)
- Underwater Acoustics, Talk of the Nation: Science Friday, 26 June 1998
- pigeons
  - Quine, Douglas B. and Melvin L. Kreithen. Frequency shift discrimination: Can homing pigeons locate infrasounds by Doppler shifts? Journal of Comparative Physiology A . Vol. 141, No. 2 (June 1981): 153-155.
  - Yodlowski , Kreithen & Keeton . Detection of atmospheric infrasound by homing pigeons. Nature. Vol. 265 (24 February 1977): 725 - 726.
humans
- A Ring Tone Meant to Fall on Deaf Ears, Paul Vitello, New York Times, 12 June 2006
- Animations of Processes within the Ear, University of Wisconsin
- AudioCheck.net, test your hearing or your computer sound system
  - Low Frequency Response Check
  - High Frequency Response Check
- Audio Engineering: An Introduction
- Auditory Illusion (requires ShockWave)
- Hearing is Believing, Center for Applied Academics)
- How We Localize Sound, William M. Hartman, Physics Today, November 1999
- Mosquito Ultrasonic Teenage Youth Deterrent, IViewCameras
- Parmly Hearing Institute, Loyola University Chicago
infrasound
- general
  - Infrasonics Program, NOAA/ERL/Environmental Technology Laboratory
  - Infrasound and Seismo-Acoustic Sensing, Southern Methodist University
- monitoring stations
  - Infrasound Monitoring, Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization
- space shuttle
  - Infrasound of Space Shuttle Columbia, Southern Methodist University
  - Shock Waves from Shuttle Columbia, Geotech Instruments
- underwater
  - Acoustic Monitoring Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
  - Acoustic Thermometry of Ocean Climate (ATOC), University of California, San Diego
  - The Bloop, Brian Dunning, Skeptoid, Episode 177, 27 October 2009
  - International Ocean Noise Coalition (IONC), Animal Welfare Institute
  - Underwater Acoustics, Talk of the Nation: Science Friday, 26 June 1998
software
- Shareware Music Machine,
- Utilitaire, Musique et Son, Mac Griffe
ultrasound
- saser (sound laser, sound amplification through stimulated emission of radiation)
  - A sonic boom in the world of lasers, University of Nottingham, 17 June 2009
- terahertz sound
  - The Radiant Side of Sound, Caryn Meissner, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 4 September 2009

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