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Sounds of the Wild West, a collaborative project between the Acoustic Atlas and ESRI December 12, 2018

An audio tour of Montana’s four major ecosystems

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The Toads of Trinity: Witnesses to the Atomic Age
July 16, 2018

They were all there. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the bomb. Edward Teller, the original Dr. Strangelove. Enrico Fermi, creator of the first nuclear reactor, was taking bets on whether the blast would ignite the atmosphere and destroy the world. The scientists were waiting, nervously, for the morning to come.

Robert Oppenheimer’s brother Frank couldn’t sleep. He was listening to the strange sound coming from the edge of the Trinity camp in New Mexico on July 15, 1945, the night before the atomic test. The world was about to enter the atomic age and Frank Oppenheimer was thinking about... frogs.

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Acoustic Atlas features in Ivan Doig symposium
September 12, 2017

Hear stories and sounds of weather, water, wildlife, and work in the landscapes of author Ivan Doig. Join Acoustic Atlas team members for their session at Doig Country: Imagining Montana and the West, a free symposium at Montana State University on the life and works of the acclaimed Western author.

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