Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
NASA
Multi-platinum singer-songwriter and visual artist Jewel unveils her groundbreaking soundscape drawing on ocean health metrics. Gathering data on oceanic health metrics including temperature variations, migratory animal patterns, wave activity, and salinity, Jewel has generated a unique 12-minute soundscape that will “sing on behalf of Earth’s oceans,” sharing both historic and real time fluctuations in the data being collected.
Jewel worked closely with teams from NASA, NOAA, Stanford University, and the University of California, Berkeley. In addition to the original composition, Jewel has fashioned the Heart of the Ocean, an eight-foot-tall resin and steel sculpture animated by 60,000 dancing LED lights. Designed to embody the dynamic relationship between human activity and the sea, the data-fed soundtrack plays out from this original piece of art.
Panel:
Greg Niemeyer, Professor of Media Innovation, Department of Art Practice at UC Berkley
Kevin Murphy, NASA Chief Science Data Officer
Chelle Gentemann, Open Science Program Scientist, NASA Office of the Chief Science Data Officer on Intergovernmental Personnel Act (IPA) assignment from the International Computer Science Institute
Contact: Josh Weinberg, AGU, news@agu.org
NASA
Multi-platinum singer-songwriter and visual artist Jewel unveils her groundbreaking soundscape drawing on ocean health metrics. Gathering data on oceanic health metrics including temperature variations, migratory animal patterns, wave activity, and salinity, Jewel has generated a unique 12-minute soundscape that will “sing on behalf of Earth’s oceans,” sharing both historic and real time fluctuations in the data being collected.
Jewel worked closely with teams from NASA, NOAA, Stanford University, and the University of California, Berkeley. In addition to the original composition, Jewel has fashioned the Heart of the Ocean, an eight-foot-tall resin and steel sculpture animated by 60,000 dancing LED lights. Designed to embody the dynamic relationship between human activity and the sea, the data-fed soundtrack plays out from this original piece of art.
Panel:
Greg Niemeyer, Professor of Media Innovation, Department of Art Practice at UC Berkley
Kevin Murphy, NASA Chief Science Data Officer
Chelle Gentemann, Open Science Program Scientist, NASA Office of the Chief Science Data Officer on Intergovernmental Personnel Act (IPA) assignment from the International Computer Science Institute
Contact: Josh Weinberg, AGU, news@agu.org
