Acoustic Fingerprints are designed and produced by Jenna Lawson, a biodiversity scientists from England and stem from her work in bioacoustics in tropical ecosystems around the world.

Jenna started her career in 2005 with a degree in biology followed by an MSc in Wildlife Biology and Conservation. Jenna then spent several years working overseas on various marine and terrestrial conservation projects. After spending two years working on the Osa Peninsula in Costa Rica, Jenna was inspired to persue a PhD to increase scientific knowledge in this tiny corner of the world. Jenna studied for her PhD at Imperial College London, where she used bioacoustics to study spider monkey distribution and soundscapes across a gradient of land use change in Costa Rica. This is where she discovered a passion for technology in her work and the power of using art and sound to communicate the beauty of nature and the loss of biodiversity across the world.

Jenna continued her passion for acoustics and technology in her post-doctoral work, where she joined the engineering department and used robotics and acoustics to study inaccessible aquatic ecosystems and the tops of forest canopies, again using sounds to study these remote ecosystems.

Jenna now works for the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology where she uses a combination of visual and acoustic automated methods for monitoring biodiversity across the world.