Dr. Jon Bellona
(he/his) Senior Instructor Music, Audio Production
My research employs sonification methods, data mapping techniques, audio technologies and instrument building to explore sound and investigate movement of both the sounded and the unheard. Through choreographic composition, audio recording, installation, music and interdisciplinary collaboration, I try to amplify how our structures and our behaviors impact the living world. I want to remind us to listen and to use listening as a way for us to connect us back to ourselves and our environment.
Bailey Hilgren
(she/her) Graduate Student, Environmental Studies
I am a musicologist and sound studies scholar working in the environmental humanities. My research revolves around the ways sound, music, and listening contribute toward our understandings of non-human environments, animals, and our interactions with them, with a particular concern for manifestations of environmental privilege and injustice. My prior research focused on environmentalist data sonifications and communication of science in sound, and my most recent project explores the ways settler colonialism impacts settler listening in wilderness areas.
Dr. Lucas Silva
(he/his) Associate Professor, Geography
Environmental Studies Program. Institute of Ecology and Evolution. My research focuses on fundamental processes that connect dynamic social and ecological systems. I direct a team of interdisciplinary scholars specializing in the study of soil-plant-atmosphere interactions, bridging theory and experimentation to improve the sustainability of natural and human-engineered landscapes.
Hilary Rose Dawson
(she/her) Graduate Student, Biology
Project Manager. Soil Plant Atmosphere Lab. University of Oregon. I am a botanist who researches how plants vary over time and space according to environmental factors and disturbances like drought and wildfire. I manage and assist with a variety of projects studying soil-plant-atmosphere interactions with a focus on improving long-term sustainability of natural climate solutions.