The role of sound in nature as explained by MPL researcher Shane Walker
"It's beginning to sound a lot like summer, the air filling with the cheeps and twitters (the non-digital kind), the croaks and rasps, the howls and screams of local life. And to think, it's all in your head."
"Sound is sensed energy, says Shane Walker, a project scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. It's oscillating waves of pressure reaching deep inside your ears to bang against your eardrums, setting in motion tiny bones and vibrating cilia that trigger nerve impulses your brain translates into something you know as sound."
