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Acoustic monitoring is one of our biggest and most active groups, with members collecting, analysing, and interpreting acoustic data from across species, ecosystems, and applications, from animal vocalizations to sounds from our natural and built environment

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Audio Data Across Domains (AudioXD) Workshop

Justin Kitzes

6 June 2022 3:52pm

Hi Wildlabs community - I'm very excited to announce the workshop below, which I hope some of you will be interested in attending. I want to highlight that the event will...

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Stephanie O'Donnell

1 September 2022 11:46am

Great minds Alice!! I'd actually sent your workshop to justin separately this morning because of the alignment with audioxd. 

As for joining things up globally, I think you're right. Looking at all that's happening in the bioacoustics community right now, seeing all these sort of events, what's happening with the bioacoustics stack exchange, and hearing the conversations that are happening - and it feels like such an opportune time to find a way to support all of these efforts link up and join forces. We have some plans on this front that will mean we'll be able to provide coordination support to help, and I'm interested to hear what people think is needed. 
Steph

 

 

Justin Kitzes

1 September 2022 3:21pm

Thanks Alice, and great to hear from you and Steph about the work that you all are leading. It would be great to follow up on the idea of doing more international collaboration in the ecoacoustics/bioacoustics space. If you're interested, feel free to drop me a line to catch up sometime about ideas.

Also, something of a side note, but we'll also have a Wildlabs blog post up summarizing the AudioXD meeting soon, hopefully.

Carly Batist

26 September 2022 9:22pm

I love the idea of increasing international collaboration and inclusion within acoustic monitoring! I think there particularly needs to be more collab'ing between the terrestrial & aquatic/marine acoustic monitoring folks! 

It would be great for more virtual/hybrid events to foster such international inclusion, so anything to facilitate that sort of online platform would be awesome! 

There is also the new Bioacoustics Stack Exchange for Q&A. And the upcoming IBAC conference in Japan next October (2023).  

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New paper: A novel method for identifying coded tags recorded on aquatic acoustic monitoring systems

Carly Batist

26 September 2022 2:11pm

Authors demonstrated "a low cost, simple method to support acoustic tag surveys by identifying tags both from direct acoustic recordings & by reconstructing code packets from processed C-POD data. Method was applied to decode tag detections from bass & Twaite shad."

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Mangrove soundscape

Camilo Sierra F.

27 August 2022 4:57pm

Hello everyone, I am currently working on the restoration of mangroves in an area of Colombia. I want to do an acoustic monitoring inside the mangrove. I want to record...

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Carly Batist

29 August 2022 2:47pm

You might check out the devices listed in the Conservation Tech Directory - you can search for 'acoustic recorder' or 'ARU' or something like that.

The most common off-the-shelf models (other than Frontier Labs' BARLTs mentioned above😊) are Open Acoustic Devices Audiomoths & Hydromoths (which may be particularly useful for you since they come in completely watertight cases that can be stuck underwater for deployments), Wildlife Acoustics' SongMeter series, and Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Swift units.  

 

David Savage

30 August 2022 10:10pm

Camilo--

Are you interested only in airborne sounds or do you want to deploy hydrophones? That decision would inform a lot of other decisions about your purchase of equipment, as would having a clearer picture of your budget.

Liz Ferguson

23 September 2022 5:39pm

Hi there Camilo, 

What an interesting project! If you are looking for a lower cost, but effective tools for acoustic monitoring you might want to look into two options: 

SoundTraps - are very commonly used and perform quite well: 

SonarPoints - these are also a great instrument option: 

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WILDLABS Journal Club

Ana Gabrielle Alcantara

15 September 2022 11:42am

Hi everyone, I'm Ana and I'm an MS Biology student in the Philippines. My field of interest is bioacoustics (specifically on bird songs) and I'm so happy to join a platform...

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Stephanie O'Donnell

15 September 2022 12:17pm

Ah Journal club - this was a lot of fun but a little chaotic. We've been wondering if we should bring it back with a slightly different format. ie we all agree on a paper to read before rather than bringing a mix of things to present. What does everyone think? Is anyone else keen? Is there a format you'd suggest we use? 

Carly Batist

15 September 2022 3:49pm

I have been waiting for journal club to come back!! 10000% down.

I agree with @StephODonnell, would love it to come back!!! And now that variety hour is happening, that's more of the "mix of things" that she mentioned anyways so I think that new format would be great. 

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Join the BirdNET team! 

Holger Klinck

9 September 2022 2:43pm

The BirdNet team are seeking to fill three roles, including an Ecologist, Data scientist and an Embedded Systems Engineer based in Germany. 

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Postdoc: Noise Impacts on Marine Animals

Carly Batist

1 September 2022 9:25pm

Mystic Aquarium is seeking a Postdoctoral Investigator (PDI) to address noise impacts on aquatic species, particularly beluga whales, seals and turtles. This project will develop & carry out research to address...

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New paper - 'soundClass: An automatic sound classification tool for biodiversity monitoring using machine learning'

Carly Batist

1 September 2022 8:53pm

Silva et al - - R package to train convolutional neural networks & employ them to classify sounds - sound event classification pipeline, from annotating recordings to automating trained networks - case studies with bat & whale echolocation calls, bird songs

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https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/2041-210X.13964
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Ceres Wild Rhino application 

Kim Lane

22 August 2022 1:29am

An update on Ceres Tags products that are being used in conservation 

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Kim Lane

29 September 2022 4:05am

Some updates and a news report on the Malilangwe Trust application of devices; Ceres Trace and Ceres Wild
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Replacement acoustic membranes for Audiomoth case 

Carly Batist

31 May 2022 2:15pm

Hi,I am wondering if anyone knows where to get replacement acoustic films for the Audiomoth case (those little grey circle things - very scientific description, I know - that line...

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Stephanie O'Donnell

9 June 2022 11:35am

Hi carly, 

You've probably seen this already as we tagged you, but I'm dropping it here in case anyone else is having the same issue!

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Looking for plant and animal eco-acoustics specialists in the Alps

Maya Auer

10 August 2022 3:01pm

Hi everyone,I am posting a search again, because last time it was super helpful! My name is Maya and I am writing to you as an intern at 'Sounding Images', a Berlin-based...

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Stephanie O'Donnell

10 August 2022 3:24pm

Hey maya, 

If you're free - come along to our Variety Hour call next week and ask folks there too. We're keeping the last 10 mins open for people to jump up and put out calls like this! 

Steph 

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Product Grant Program

Wildlife Acoustics

9 August 2022 7:09pm

Wildlife Acoustics' grant program to receive bioacoustic tools and software is now accepting applications. Apply for up to $4,000 worth of products and software licenses.

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HydroMoth GroupGets campaign

Andrew Hill

28 June 2022 11:07am

It continues to be difficult to source microcontrollers due to global supply chain issues, but Open Acoustic Devices have managed to source a small supply for an initial group...

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Stewart Macdonald

20 July 2022 3:06am

From Alex on Twitter:

Yes. The HydroMoth has the same microphone and firmware as the standard AudioMoth which is widely used for terrestrial conservation. You would need the standard green case which has a waterproof acoustic vent.

Carly Batist

20 July 2022 5:57pm

@Andrew_Hill Out of curiosity, since this campaign reached its goal & is ending soon, is it possible to turn the remaining Hydromoth units that didn't sell into Audiomoths for a limited GroupGets? I understand that Hydromoths can be used terrestrially as well, but they are more expensive than the last Audiomoth campaigns have been by $50+ so just wanted to see if Audiomoths would still be cheaper. Just trying to figure out if I should buy more Hydromoths or wait until Audiomoths start selling again (ends up being a trade-off between cost and time basically).

Lars Holst Hansen

31 July 2022 5:20pm

@Andrew_Hill I wonder if you could let us know more about the time keeping difference btw the regular AudioMoth and the HydroMoth (which is said to do better)?

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