UConn Today
July 9, 2025 | Kimberly Phillips, and Sydney Herdle

‘One of our goals is to be able to reach the nonscientist with scientific concepts and communicate those, and music is … [a] medium where it’s incredibly accessible to people’

As comfortable as Molly James is talking about tidal data depicted on a linear graph, she’s equally at ease discussing the differences between mere sonification of those data points and the musification of what those points convey.

Scientists need at least three decades of measurements to detect sea level rise, she explains, noting that the Connecticut Institute for Resilience and Climate Adaptation projects a rise in Connecticut of about 20 inches by 2050. 

Link: https://today.uconn.edu/2025/07/more-than-simple-sonification-next-phase-of-harmony-of-nature-seeks-to-make-music/
Town: None Assigned
Focus Area: Marine Science
Type: In the Media

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