Timothy C. Mullet,^1,*,**,*** John M. Morton,^2,**** Stuart H. Gage,^3,***** Falk Huettmann<sup>1,******

1</sup>1EWHALE Lab Department of Biology and Wildlife Institute of Arctic Biology University of Alaska Fair
²2Kenai National Wildlife Refuge US Fish and Wildlife Service P.O. Box 2139 Soldotna, AK 99669
³3Global Observatory for Ecosystem Services Michigan State University 101 Manly Miles Building 1405 S

^*Corresponding author: timothy_mullet@fws.gov; 719-680-1659
^**Current address: Ecological Services, US Fish and Wildlife Service, 1208 B Main Street, Daphne, AL 36526
^***Timothy C. Mullet, PhD, received his doctorate at the University of Alaska Fairbanks where he focused his research on winter soundscape ecology and the impacts snowmobile activity and noise have on boreal ecosystems in south-central Alaska. He has since published several papers on soundscape ecology including a quantitative description of Kenai National Wildlife Refuge's winter soundscape in the Journal of Landscape Ecology, a chapter on modeling soundscapes with machine learning in the book Ecoacoustics, and a pioneering article in Biosemiotics introducing the Acoustic Habitat Hypothesis. He continues to work on soundscape topics and many other ecological projects in Alaska and elsewhere.
^****John M. Morton, PhD, has been the supervisory biologist at Kenai National Wildlife Refuge since 2002. He has broad experience in developing and implementing research and management during his 27-year career as a US Fish and Wildlife Service biologist with both Refuges and Ecological Services. Current interests include climate change adaptation, inventory and monitoring design, and the effects of human disturbance on wildlife.
^*****Stuart H. Gage, PhD, is Emeritus Professor at Michigan State University. Stuart retired after about 30 years as Professor of Entomology. He received the University Distinguished Faculty Award and the University Outreach and Engagement Campus Fellow at Michigan State University. He developed and taught, with several of his colleagues, a multidisciplinary Earth System Science (Honors) course to help students understand the dynamics and function of the Biosphere. Stuart continues as Director of the Remote Environmental Assessment Laboratory (http://www.real.msu.edu). His research focuses on the application of ecological sensors, analysis of sensor observations, and cyber infrastructure. He collaborates with colleagues in the area of soundscape ecology, acoustic analysis, regional ecosystem simulation modeling, ecological synthesis, and data mining.
^******Falk Huettmann, PhD, is an interdisciplinary wildlife conservation landscape ecologist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks in the Biology and Wildlife Department, Institute of Arctic Biology. Together with his international students he runs various wildlife and habitat research projects almost worldwide in his EWHALE lab. His research interests focus on applied topics such as sustainability and wilderness. His research employs primarily geographic information systems, open access data mining and machine learning, and for finding relevant signals in complex spatial data. Falk and his team published over 170 peer-reviewed papers and six books on those subjects, in addition to numerous online data sets for free public use.