{"id":8047,"date":"2019-05-19T06:00:35","date_gmt":"2019-05-19T10:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/?p=8047"},"modified":"2025-04-24T14:39:37","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T18:39:37","slug":"2019-research-walker-primack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/2019\/05\/19\/2019-research-walker-primack\/","title":{"rendered":"The Impact of Tourism on Environmental Sound Levels in Urban and Park Environments"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Principal Investigator<\/h3>\n<p><span>\n\t<ul class=\"profile-listing profile-format-basic\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n<li class=\"profile-item profile-item-basic has-title post-20434 profile type-profile status-publish hentry profile-field-environmental-health profile-field-sph\">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/profile\/erica-walker\/\" class=\"profile-link profile-link-basic\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"profile-photo profile-photo-basic\"><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"\/ioc\/files\/2019\/05\/Erica-Walker-scaled-e1740073164176-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\t\t\t\t<h6 class=\"profile-name profile-name-basic\">Erica Walker<\/h6>\n\t\t<p class=\"profile-title profile-title-basic\">Former Postdoctoral Research Fellow<\/p>\t<\/a>\n\n\t\n<\/li>\n\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Co-Principal Investigator<\/h3>\n<p><span>\n\t<ul class=\"profile-listing profile-format-basic\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n<li class=\"profile-item profile-item-basic has-title post-20436 profile type-profile status-publish hentry profile-field-biology profile-field-cas\">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/profile\/richard-b-primack\/\" class=\"profile-link profile-link-basic\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"profile-photo profile-photo-basic\"><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"\/ioc\/files\/2025\/02\/Primack-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\t\t\t\t<h6 class=\"profile-name profile-name-basic\">Richard Primack<\/h6>\n\t\t<p class=\"profile-title profile-title-basic\">Professor of Biology<\/p>\t<\/a>\n\n\t\n<\/li>\n\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Sound pollution in urban areas can cause physical and mental health problems which disproportionately affect poor and underserved communities; it can reduce the cultural vitality of outdoor areas; and it can harm wildlife. The investigators will study the impacts of tourism on a city\u2019s environmental soundscape to better understand how the effects of tourism affect urban areas compared to highly-visited park areas. Urban areas including Boston, MA and Bar Harbor, ME will be studied, along with highly-visited parks including Walden Pond and Acadia National Park.<\/p>\n<h2>Publications<\/h2>\n<p>Walker, E. D., Lee, N. F., Tieskens, K. F., Cavallari, J. M., Schollaert, C., &amp; Levy, J. I. (2021). <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/23748834.2021.1904356\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Adaptive reuse and its impacts on the acoustical environment and public health of community residents: the case of Fenway, Boston, MA<\/a>. <em>Cities &amp; Health<\/em>, 1-11.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/research\/seedgrants\/research-in-progress\/\"><em>View more projects funded through our Early Stage Urban Research Awards<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Principal Investigator Co-Principal Investigator Sound pollution in urban areas can cause physical and mental health problems which disproportionately affect poor and underserved communities; it can reduce the cultural vitality of outdoor areas; and it can harm wildlife. The investigators will study the impacts of tourism on a city\u2019s environmental soundscape to better understand how the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15794,"featured_media":20439,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,18],"tags":[51,109,110,34,111,33,112],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8047"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8047"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20440,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8047\/revisions\/20440"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}