UAS student composes music from Juneau stream data

Lindsey McCulloch and Ashlen Smith at KTOO on Aug. 11, 2026. (Photo by Alix Soliman/KTOO)
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What if, instead of using graphs and words to share environmental data, scientists used music? A student at the University of Alaska Southeast spent her summer doing just that. 
Ashlen Smith composed songs from complex stream data collected in the Davies Creek Watershed at the north end of Juneau in the H&eac