New Forest Cicada Project
- Homepage
- http://newforestcicada.info/
- Started
- 1st February 2012
- Ended
- 31st July 2015
- Research Team
- Davide Zilli, Oliver Parson
- Investigators
- Alexander Rogers, Geoff Merrett
Cicadetta Montana s. str., photograph by Jaroslav Maly
The New Forest Cicada (Cicadetta montana s. str.) is the only cicada native to the UK. During May to July it sings with a very characteristic high-pitched song, which is at the limits of human hearing, and is particularly difficult for most adults to hear. Sightings of the cicada within the New Forest date back to 1812, but the last unconfirmed sighting was in 2000. However, it's quite likely that colonies remain undiscovered in less visited parts of the forest. The New Forest Cicada Project aims to equip the millions of visitors to the forest with a smart phone app that can detect and recognise the song of the cicada, and hopes to rediscover it in 2013.
Categories
Life sciences simulation: Bioinformatics, Ecology
Physical Systems and Engineering simulation: Acoustics
Algorithms and computational methods: Agents, FFT, Machine learning
Transdisciplinary tags: Complex Systems, Computer Science, Crowdsourcing