{"id":1762,"date":"2010-09-30T13:52:05","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T17:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/?p=1762"},"modified":"2026-02-23T15:51:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:51:51","slug":"cricket-serenade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/2010\/cricket-serenade\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket Serenade"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Cricket Serenade\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Research Works<br>\nByline: Elizabeth Howell<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tall grass and warm air surrounds the Nesbitt Biology Building at ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ University in late summer, and is accompanied by the background sound of crickets. Locking her mountain bike at the lab door, Sue Bertram pauses to listen. \u201cThat\u2019s a Fall Field Cricket. Sounds about the same as a Spring Field, but I know because of the time of year.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The assistant science dean and associate science professor has listened closely to crickets for about 20 years. Courtesy of funding from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.innovation.ca\/en\" target=\"_blank\">Canada Foundation for Innovation<\/a>, she now has a new, electronic way of tracking what the crickets are saying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A greenhouse-like building just outside Nesbitt holds containers full of crickets. Periodically, Bertram or one of her students will carefully scoop a male cricket out and place him in a small acoustic chamber, hooked up to a computer running special audio software. They can then track the length and the type of call, and begin answering questions about how it changes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The full article can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/researchworks.carleton.ca\/fall-2010\/cricket-serenade\/\">http:\/\/researchworks.carleton.ca\/fall-2010\/cricket-serenade\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research Works Byline: Elizabeth Howell Tall grass and warm air surrounds the Nesbitt Biology Building at ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ University in late summer, and is accompanied by the background sound of crickets. Locking her mountain bike at the lab door, Sue Bertram pauses to listen. \u201cThat\u2019s a Fall Field Cricket. Sounds about the same as a Spring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}