Bryan C. Pijanowski is professor of forestry and natural resources at Purdue University, where he is also director of the Center for Global Soundscapes. He is the executive producer of the interactive IMAX experience film Global Soundscapes: Mission to Record the Earth and has authored more than 170 articles appearing in outlets such as BioScience, Landscape Ecology, Ecological Indicators, Ecological Informatics, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Applied Ecology, and Science of the Total Environment. His "mission to record the Earth" is to study, using soundscapes, all thirty-two major biomes of the world. At press time, he has four more to go. Pijanowski's work has been featured by CNN, PBS's NOVA, NPR's Science Friday, New York Times Magazine, Science News, and the Weather Channel.