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Turn environmental data into music—literally. A student at the University of Alaska Southeast transformed a year’s worth of stream measurements into an immersive soundscape, letting listeners “hear” what it’s like for salmon to navigate glacial, snow-fed, rain-fed, and beaver-pond waters. Using water level as melody, temperature as synth, oxygen as wind, and turbidity as bass, she turned complex ecology into emotion. Inspired by a podcast that sonified spider evolution, her mentor hoped this would deepen human connection to nature—one note at a time.

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