Richard Primack Receives BU Initiative on Cities Grant

Professor Richard Primack and Postdoctoral Associate Erica Walker, the principal investigator of the Community Noise Lab (School of Public Health), have received a grant from the BU Initiative on Cities, entitled “The Impact of Tourism on Environmental Sound Levels in Urban and Park Environments.” The goal of this proposal is to examine tourism’s impacts on a suite of metrics of sound and noise perception at iconic and heavily visited locations in New England, such as Fenway Park, Boston’s North End, and Acadia National Park in Maine.