By Owen Sullivan For the past few weeks, members of the NOISE Project have been coding responses from interviews that were conducted over the summer. During the coding process, we scan interview answers for their main ideas, and then assign them words or phrases that capture these main themes. These […]
Learn
76 posts
By Owen Sullivan For the past few weeks, members of the NOISE Project have been coding responses from interviews that were conducted over the summer. During the coding process, we scan interview answers for their main ideas, and then assign them words or phrases that capture these main themes. These […]
By Owen Sullivan The NOISE Project explores culture through a scientific lens. This term, culture, is most often used when describing ethnic and religious customs that shape the decisions and lifestyles of individuals. Yet a different sort of culture–organizational culture–is another powerful force that shapes behaviors and decisions in the […]
Every day we wake up and get out of bed from the sound of our alarm clock. From the moment we start our day, noise has a profound impact and presence in our lives. While our alarm clocks are not harmful to our personal health and are of our own […]
Before attending University, the term academic elitism would have meant nothing to me. Today, this term represents the boundaries and challenges that strung together the years of my academic career. Academic elitism, ever-present in my life for the past five years, changed the way that I experienced and interacted with […]
By Owen Sullivan For the past few weeks, members of the NOISE Project have been coding responses from interviews that were conducted over the summer. During the coding process, we scan interview answers for their main ideas, and then assign them words or phrases that capture these main themes. These […]
By Bobby Wilson (Metro Atlanta Urban Farm) Could COVID-19 and the impending lockdown threaten your access to fresh vegetables? If you think so, then the time may be right for families across this great nation to experience the joy and excitement of planning and planting a backyard garden? A backyard garden can serve […]
By Yao A. Foli The definition, story, memory, and understanding of noise by the community could be the guideline to community engagement, education, and awareness about noise pollution. The experience and the memories of the stories at noise-exposed workplaces by community members provide detail about the unawareness and the awareness […]
Noisy transportation and your health When you imagine a busy intersection what do you hear? Many times, this image is accompanied by the loud sounds of tires, car horns, and rumbling trucks. Now imagine adding the sound of a train or subway running next to the intersection and an airplane […]
Metro Atlanta Urban Farms have brought Noise Pollution and Citizen Science to their community youth by working with a group of Junior Community Science Collaborators. Together they have been working on education, awareness, and research on Noise Pollution. In our Full project meeting in April, the Junior CSCs brought us an amazing presentation on the […]
Project Advisor Mathias Basner shared the link to the news article “Conifer is top tree in urban sound absorption test”: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-52139333 The article, published on BBC News by Environment reporter Mark Kinver, reports the findings of a group of scientists about the role of trees in mitigating urban noise pollution. […]
Our community partners at CLUES have come up with a great activity that is useful for educating, engaging, and creating awareness about noise pollution. Their noise activity allows participants to engage in different tasks while listening to different types of sounds and noises. Through this interactive demonstration, participants are able […]