Karen: Bakker

In 2022, Bakker published The Sounds of Life , a book that detailed how digital technologies act as a "planetary hearing aid". Her research highlighted groundbreaking discoveries, such as:

She championed a synthesis of , often sharing stories like that of the Kamayurá people in Brazil, who could "hear the fish singing" long before western bioacoustics confirmed the phenomenon with underwater recordings. Legacy and Vision karen bakker

She passed away in August 2023, shortly after delivering a powerful TED Talk on the prospects of deciphering animal communication. Her colleagues and students remember her as a scholar who was "insatiably curious about Earth’s long-term future" and who believed that by learning to listen, we might finally learn to cohabitate. In 2022, Bakker published The Sounds of Life

: How AI can decode individual orca calls and dialects passed down through generations. Her colleagues and students remember her as a