Marina Peterson's work attends to elemental forces and shifting modalities of matter, with an emphasis on sound and urbanism. Peterson explores diverse and innovative ways of encountering and presenting the ethnographic through writing, sound, and image. Most of her research is in and of Los Angeles. Her most recent book, Atmospheric Noise: The Indefinite Urbanism of Los Angeles traces environmental noise, atmosphere, sense, and matter that cohere in and through noise pollution legislation and the politics of airport noise in the 1960s, addressing key ways in which noise amplifies ways of sensing and making sense of the atmospheric. She has co-edited books on anthropology and art and serve as the co-director of the Bureau for Experimental Ethnography.