Kurt Fristrup
National Park Service
Fort Collins,
CO
USA
Biographical Sketch: Kurt Fristrup is the Branch Chief for Science and Technology in the Natural Sounds and Night Skies Division of Natural Resource Stewardship and Science, a directorate within the U. S. National Park Service. He has overseen monitoring of acoustical conditions at more than 500 sites in national parks and other protected natural areas, and has helped develop models that generalize those observations into predictions of sound levels throughout the continental U. S. Kurt previously worked at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, where his research interests included evolutionary theory, marine mammal ecology and behavior, engineering development capturing and characterizing animal sounds, the effects of noise on wildlife, and radio telemetry instrumentation for wildlife studies. Kurt is a member of the Acoustical Society of America and he chairs ANSI accredited standards working group S3/SC1/WG04: “Description and Measurement of the Ambient Sound in Parks, Wilderness Areas, and Other Quiet and/or Pristine Areas.” Kurt received his undergraduate degree in Biomedical Engineering from U. C. San Diego, and his Ph. D. in Organismal and Evolutionary Biology from Harvard University.
Papers:
191
Continental maps of noise exposure and its consequences for ecosystem function and human experience