Group curators
Juan Sebastián Ulloa
- @jsulloa
- | He/Him
Instituto Humboldt
Red Ecoacústica Colombiana
Vanesa Reyes
WILDLABS
Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS)
The Latin America Community group is designed to create a dedicated regional hub within WILDLABS, where conservationists and technology enthusiasts from Latin America can come together to share knowledge, collaborate on projects, and build networks that support conservation efforts across the region.
This group is for individuals working in or passionate about conservation technology across Latin America. From researchers, conservationists, tech developers, policy-makers or just people starting in the field, this community welcomes everyone interested in advancing conservation technology in the region.
A primary challenge faced by the Latin American conservation tech community is a lack of cohesive networking and communication channels specific to the region. The large geographic distances, and the varying levels of access to resources have made it difficult for people to connect and collaborate effectively. This group aims to address these issues by providing a central space where members can connect, find peers with similar interests, communicate more seamlessly, share resources, and build networks. It also encourages cross-border collaboration and helps bridge the gap between those with access to technology, knowledge and resources and those in need of them.
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El grupo de la Comunidad de América Latina está diseñado para crear un centro regional dedicado dentro de WILDLABS, donde conservacionistas y entusiastas de la tecnología de América Latina puedan reunirse para compartir conocimientos, colaborar en proyectos y construir redes que apoyen los esfuerzos de conservación en toda la región.
Este grupo está dirigido a personas que trabajan o sienten pasión por la tecnología para la conservación en América Latina. Desde investigadores, conservacionistas, desarrolladores de tecnología, formuladores de políticas, hasta personas que recién comienzan en el campo, esta comunidad da la bienvenida a todos aquellos interesados en avanzar la tecnología para la conservación en la región.
Uno de los principales desafíos que enfrenta la comunidad de tecnología para la conservación en América Latina es la falta de redes de comunicación y canales de colaboración cohesivos específicos para la región. Las grandes distancias geográficas y los diferentes niveles de acceso a recursos, a menudo dificultad que las personas se conecten y colaboren de manera efectiva. Este grupo busca abordar estos problemas proporcionando un espacio central donde los miembros puedan conectarse, encontrar colegas con intereses similares, comunicarse de manera más fluida, compartir recursos y construir redes. También fomenta la colaboración sin fronteras y ayuda a cerrar la brecha entre quienes tienen acceso a tecnología, conocimientos y recursos, y quienes los necesitan.
Community Guidelines
When participating in this group, either through commenting or posting, please post and/or comment in both Spanish (or Portuguese) and English.
Image Credit: Banco de Imágenes del Instituto Humboldt
Group curators
- @jsulloa
- | He/Him
Instituto Humboldt & Red Ecoacústica Colombiana
Scientist and engineer developing smart tools for ecology and biodiversity conservation.
- 3 Resources
- 22 Discussions
- 7 Groups
WILDLABS & Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS)
I'm the Bioacoustics Research Analyst at WILDLABS. I'm a marine biologist with particular interest in the acoustics behavior of cetaceans. I'm also a backend web developer, hoping to use technology to improve wildlife conservation efforts.
- 27 Resources
- 34 Discussions
- 34 Groups
- @gabyavm97
- | She/her
Gabriela A. Valencia-Macias, B.Sc. (Universidad Veracruzana), is achieving a master's degree in science at the Ecology Institute (INECOL A.C). She is Colombian-Mexican and has focused her studies on the conservation and biodiversity of amphibians.
- 0 Resources
- 0 Discussions
- 2 Groups
A biologist pursuing a Master's in Computer Science and Telecommunications
- 0 Resources
- 2 Discussions
- 3 Groups
- @ivalina
- | She/her
I am a fishery biologist working in Central America. As Science Coordinator of the NGO MarAlliance, I help coordinate and implement research and data analyses across our multiple country programs and lead the deepwater fisheries research in the MesoAmerican Region.
- 0 Resources
- 1 Discussions
- 2 Groups
Over 35 years of experience in biodiversity conservation worldwide, largely focused on forests, rewilding and conservation technology. I run my own business assisting nonprofits and agencies in the conservation community
- 5 Resources
- 62 Discussions
- 12 Groups
- @briannajohns
- | she/they
Gathering for Open Science Hardware (GOSH)
Interested in the application of open source technologies for conservation research.
- 9 Resources
- 4 Discussions
- 4 Groups
conservation biologist working primarily in Argentina
- 0 Resources
- 1 Discussions
- 4 Groups
Para la Naturaleza
- 0 Resources
- 0 Discussions
- 1 Groups
- @quinteroossa
- | She/her
- 0 Resources
- 0 Discussions
- 1 Groups
Andigena ID+ es una empresa Colombiana dedicada a promover la conservación de la biodiversidad de manera integral a través de la investigación y el desarrollo.
- 0 Resources
- 0 Discussions
- 5 Groups
University of Suffolk
Researcher on the 8 Primates Project
PhD student- biodiversity monitoring using acoustic data
- 0 Resources
- 2 Discussions
- 9 Groups
- @veronicapmc
- | she/her/ella
I'm an Environmental Biology graduate from Columbia University with a passion for wildlife science, ecology, and conservation biology. I'm an early-career professional looking to get into the field of conservation technology and interested in related graduate programs.
- 0 Resources
- 0 Discussions
- 7 Groups
- @linaquiceno
- | she/her
- 0 Resources
- 0 Discussions
- 2 Groups
Funding
Convocatoria BID 2025: América Latina y Caribe
Vanesa Reyes
Financiamiento para proyectos de biodiversidad en América Latina y el Caribe
10 April 2025
Funding
$3 millions of funding for NGO in Brazil using AI for conservation / $ 3 milhões em financiamento para ONGs no Brasil que usam IA para conservação!
1 April 2025
Link
OceanHackWeek en español
Vanesa Reyes
Actividad gratuita y online para Investigadores en ciencias marinas trabajando en América Latina con interés en aprender a programar en Python, R, y trabajo colaborativo. Último día para aplicar a OceanHackWeek en...
31 March 2025
Funding
Multiple grants
Frank van der Most
I have been a bit distracted the past months by my move from Costa Rica to Spain ( all went well, thank you, I just miss the rain forest and the Ticos ) and have to catch up on funding calls. Because I still have little...
28 March 2025
Funding
BirdCLEF+ 2025
Alex Rood
Species identification from audio, focused on birds, amphibians, mammals and insects from the Middle Magdalena Valley of Colombia.
12 March 2025
Link
Un equipo de investigadores de WCS logró registrar imágenes de un cachorro de gato andino (Leopardus jacobita), el felino más amenazado de América, en la provincia de Mendoza, Argentina. Este importante hallazgo fue...
11 March 2025
Funding
Osa Conservation is launching our inaugural cohort of the ‘Susan Wojcicki Research Fellowship’ for 2025, worth up to $15,000 per awardee (award value dependent on project length and number of awards given each year)....
10 February 2025
Funding
National Conservation Trust Fund of Jamaica call for proposals (JM$500K-5M)
Frank van der Most
NCTFJ opens a call for proposals regarding protected areas and other areas of high environmental importance.
29 January 2025
Funding
CEPF 9th call for LOIs for large grants (>$50K) Aplicar en inglés o español
Frank van der Most
The Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund ( CEPF ) calls for letters of inquiry ( LOIs ) for large grants focusing on capacity building of civil society organizations to reduce threats to biodiveristy. Applications can be...
29 January 2025
Funding
Chamada da Teia de Sociobiodiversidade
Tiago Sarmento
Serão apoiados 200 projetos no valor máximo de até R$ 100.000,00 (cem mil reais) e que se voltam às linhas: Negócios da Sociobiodiversidade e Soluções Baseadas na Natureza.
5 December 2024
Funding
The Mesoamerican Reef Fund ( MAR Fund ) calls proposals for its small grants program and for the Reef Rescue Initiative. | El Fondo para el Sistema Arrecifal Mesoamericano (MAR Fund) convoca propuestas para su programa...
3 October 2024
Article
We are thrilled to start a brand new group, the Latin America Community, and introduce the new Group Leaders for the 2024-2025 term: Vanesa Reyes and Juan Sebastián Ulloa Chacón. // Estamos muy contentos de iniciar un...
27 September 2024
May 2025
event
Wildlife Acoustics
June 2025
event
Vanesa Reyes
October 2025
event
Lacey Hughey and 3 more
April 2025
event
Ben Weinstein
March 2025
event
Juan Sebastián Ulloa and 2 more
event
Juan Sebastián Ulloa and 1 more
event
Audrey Looby
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Animal Movement, Human-Wildlife Conflict, Latin America Community | 3 months 2 weeks ago | |
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Latin America Community, Acoustics, AI for Conservation, Camera Traps, Drones, Early Career | 2 weeks 6 days ago | ||
| Although the core of the BoutScout project focuses on developing multi-sensor dataloggers for automated nest monitoring, a... |
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Data management and processing tools, Latin America Community | 1 month ago | |
| Bienvenido Maxi! |
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Community Base, Latin America Community | 1 month ago | |
| Hola Vane,Te nombro al menos dos comunidades acá en Colombia que están involucradas en estos temas:Red Ecoacústica Colombiana: Una red interdisciplinaria de investigadores y... |
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Latin America Community | 1 month 2 weeks ago | |
| Thank you so much!!! I will contact them. |
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Conservation Tech Training and Education, Latin America Community, Women in Conservation Tech Programme (WiCT) | 3 months ago | |
| Thanks so much!! |
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Camera Traps, Latin America Community | 3 months 1 week ago | |
| Hey Xiona,I see that you are from a university that is very close to where I live. I have a platform that is well suited for combating wildlife crime and I perceive that it’s... |
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Wildlife Crime, Acoustics, Latin America Community | 4 months 3 weeks ago | |
| Added! ¡Agregada! |
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Latin America Community, Acoustics | 5 months ago | |
| So, updated the text a bit with images cropped at 100% zoom :) we are already happy with the time reductions we got, but... would like to get at least 90% time reduction instead... |
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Data management and processing tools, Latin America Community, Sensors | 5 months ago | |
| Oops, sorry about that. I wrote a reply a few weeks ago, and I am pretty sure I clicked the button, but apparently something went wrong. So, another attemptThank you for your... |
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Community Base, Conservation Tech Training and Education, East Africa Community, Funding and Finance, Human-Wildlife Conflict, Latin America Community | 6 months 2 weeks ago | |
| Hi Adrien,The founder of the Green Box is at the COP16 - I can connect you if you don't know Eduardo.Kind regards,Gijs |
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Community Base, Latin America Community | 7 months ago |
¿Conoces colecciones de sonidos de la biodiversidad en América Latina? / Você conhece coleções de sons da biodiversidade na América Latina?
17 November 2024 6:30pm
16 December 2024 3:01pm
Carly!
Está fantástica la lista. Me gusta la idea de diferenciar las colecciones de sonido y los conjuntos de dato para machine learning.
Acá comparto información sobre nuestra colección de sonidos ambientales:
- Colección de Sonidos Ambientales: https://colecciones.humboldt.org.co/sonidos/ , Multiple taxa, Global, 25k recordings, 1.3k species, mantenido por el Instituto Humboldt desde 1997.
Este recurso de BioacousticsIA me pareció particularmente interesante ya que está público, tiene una clara estrategia para mantenerlo al día y está diseñado para incluir muchos detalles sobre los conjuntos de grabaciones.
Muchas gracias! :D
16 December 2024 6:06pm
Added!
¡Agregada!
Detecting Thrips and Larger Insects Together
16 December 2024 1:14pm
16 December 2024 2:32pm
16 December 2024 2:36pm
Yeah, I would expect that you might need to have higher resolution if the critters are very small. Still might be just a lens choice. But not up on this amount of lens difference, so don't know how hard it would be.
16 December 2024 2:48pm
So, updated the text a bit with images cropped at 100% zoom :) we are already happy with the time reductions we got, but... would like to get at least 90% time reduction instead of 70% :))) we know that with a very expensive and high power camera we could probably do it, so one approach we are thinking of is just taking a closer macro picture with a cellphone of let's say 1/3 or 1/4 of the sticky paper and use this data instead of everything... or take 2-3 pictures (but we don't want to waste time in sticking the images together).
Chamada da Teia de Sociobiodiversidade
5 December 2024 8:27pm
Derechos Humanos y Conservación
14 November 2024 1:43pm
Who gave you your last research travel grant? | ¿Quién le concedió su última beca de viaje de investigación? | Quem lhe concedeu sua última bolsa de viagem de pesquisa?
16 October 2024 6:21pm
16 October 2024 10:03pm
Thank you for your answer, Vanesa!
And for reminding me to add a translation.
18 October 2024 7:19pm
That is challenging and I'd be keen to hear other people's suggestions!
From the academic realm, I'll say that many graduate students get travel funding through scientific societies. E.g. the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation has seed grants:
https://tropicalbiology.org/grants-awards/atbc-seed-research-grant/
And Society for Conservation Biology has grad student awards:
https://conbio.org/mini-sites/scb-awards/student-awards
These are often restricted to members unfortunately. National/regional societies might be good resources for people to look into.
4 November 2024 1:49pm
Oops, sorry about that. I wrote a reply a few weeks ago, and I am pretty sure I clicked the button, but apparently something went wrong. So, another attempt
Thank you for your answer, @brandon. I had overlooked the scientific societies.
Membership may be an issue, but I noticed that the ATBC has diversified fees depending on career stage and the member country's economic development, and the SCB membership fee depends on income.
Traducción de idiomas / Language translation
2 October 2024 9:27pm
3 October 2024 6:57am
Me encanta esta grupa. Tengo cinco anos Duolingo 😀
3 October 2024 6:59pm
Thanks for writing this all down, @Wade !
During the discussion, I claimed that searching WILDLABS content in a different language is not possible in spite of the translation tools in browsers. Someone ( was it @carlybatist ?) then pointed out that this might work with ChatGPT. I haven't had the chance to test that yet. If it works, then that would be awesome.
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¡Gracias por escribir todo esto, @Wade! Durante la discusión, afirmé que no es posible buscar contenido de WILDLABS en un idioma diferente a pesar de las herramientas de traducción de los navegadores. Alguien (¿fue @carlybatist?) señaló que esto podría funcionar con ChatGPT. Todavía no he tenido la oportunidad de probarlo. Si funciona, sería fantástico.
7 October 2024 3:32pm
Gracias @Wade, por iniciar esta conversación. La traducción en Mac quedó impecable! Nos encantaría seguir escuchando sus experiencias y sugerencias sobre cómo hacer que nuestros foros y eventos sean más accesibles e inclusivos en diferentes idiomas. En cuanto a Chrome, existe una opción similar con la extensión de Google Translate (y también hay una opción parecida en Edge). Si escribo un mensaje, puedo seleccionarlo, hacer clic derecho y elegir "Traducir". Esto abre un pop-up de Google Translate y me permite seleccionar el idioma de destino (aunque está limitado a un número específico de caracteres 😕). Sin embargo, como menciona Frank, el problema con estas soluciones es la limitación para buscar contenido en otros idiomas dentro de la plataforma, ya que la traducción es solo superficial y no afecta la búsqueda de palabras clave en el contenido original. Sería interesante explorar opciones de integración más profundas, como el uso de herramientas de inteligencia artificial que faciliten tanto la traducción como la búsqueda y navegación en varios idiomas.
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Thank you, @Wade, for starting this conversation. The Mac translation worked flawlessly! We would love to continue hearing your experiences and suggestions on how to make our forums and events more accessible and inclusive in different languages. As for Chrome, there’s a similar option using the Google Translate extension (and a comparable option in Edge). If I write a message, I can select it, right-click, and choose "Translate". This opens a Google Translate pop-up and allows me to select the target language (although it is limited to a certain number of characters 😕). However, as Frank mentioned, the issue with these solutions is that they don’t support searching content in other languages within the platform, as the translation is only superficial and doesn’t affect keyword searches in the original content. It would be interesting to explore deeper integration options, such as using AI tools that can facilitate both translation and searching/navigating across multiple languages.
Anyone else going to COP16?
20 September 2024 11:30pm
20 October 2024 1:46pm
Schedule from CXL
#cop16colombia | Conservation X Labs
We're heading to Cali for the UN Biodiversity Conference - #COP16Colombia! We would love to connect with you at the following events, where we will have staff participating or speaking: 📅 Monday, October 21 11:30 AM CT | Blue Zone: Amazonia Forever Pavilion Marion Adeney speaks at “Science, Tech & Innovation for New Regenerative Socio-Bioeconomies in the Amazon" from the Science Panel for the Amazon. 4:15 PM CT | Blue Zone: Peru Pavilion Co-hosting “Tech & Innovation for Managing Biodiversity” with Yunkawasi. Join our President & Co-Founder, Paul Bunje , Marion Adeney, and expert panelists: Fanny M. Cornejo, Yunkawasi - Peter Houlihan, XPRIZE - Benjamin Andriamihaja - ICTE, Madagascar - Deyvis Huamán, Servicio Nacional de Áreas Naturales Protegidas por el Estado - SERNANP Facilitated by: Gerson Ferrer, Yunkawasi Spaces are limited. You can secure your spot by filling this form: https://lnkd.in/gu4TQC2X 📅 Saturday, October 26 2:15 PM CT | IUCN Pavilion Paul Bunje, will speak at: “Considering opportunities of new tools for conservation” event alongside representatives from Wildlife Conservation Society, Target Malaria, The Coalition for Conservation Genetics, and the South African National Biodiversity Institute. More details: https://lnkd.in/g979ceJ8
21 October 2024 6:30pm
Sadly won't be there but in case anyone is interested in the EO/GIS related sessions the GEO Pavilion has a great schedule. If anyone happens to attend any of these please let me know :) thank you!
22 October 2024 11:16am
Hi Adrien,
The founder of the Green Box is at the COP16 - I can connect you if you don't know Eduardo.
Kind regards,
Gijs
Seminar Series About Underwater Sounds!
21 October 2024 5:34pm
1 December 2024 10:55pm
6 January 2025 8:35pm
21 January 2025 6:06pm
¿Quién asistirá a la COP16? / Who will attend COP16?
7 October 2024 3:48pm
7 October 2024 4:41pm
I applied already 2 times, rejected 1st, now waiting from another youth led organizations.
MAR Fund opens its 17th call for proposals (<$50k) | MAR Fund abre su 17ª convocatoria de propuestas (<$50k)
3 October 2024 11:00pm
Latin America Community Announcement: Introducing a New Group and Its Leaders // Anuncio de la Comunidad Latinoamericana: Presentación de un Nuevo Grupo y sus Líderes // Apresentamos o grupo da Comunidade Latinoamericana
Juan Sebastián Ulloa
and 1 more
27 September 2024 6:16pm
30 September 2024 3:01pm
15 October 2024 1:01am
COP16 (UN Convention on Biological Diversity)
20 September 2024 11:27pm
Mothbox Updates v4.12
11 September 2024 5:27pm
15 September 2024 6:51am
Super effort. Nice reporting!
Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial
5 July 2024 7:30pm
Generate Unique, Human-Readable Labels! In spanish or english!
2 July 2024 4:19am
Testing, Deployment, Solar, Conferences - Mothbox update v3.21
24 May 2024 8:46pm
3 June 2024 10:35am
Thank you for the detailed post. This is amazing!
Have you experimented with ways of reducing power consumption? How much of the power is used by the LEDs vs the RPi? You could try having the LEDs on for less time, or less bright.
Julian
4 June 2024 7:54pm
The LEDs use most of the energy, the UV leds are about 12-15 watts. the pi hangs out around 3 watts. and the white flashing LEDs use about 10 watts each, but we reduced their time to like .8 seconds for a flash photo, so they aren't as much of a big deal.
you basically need a lot of power to make a really bright thing to attract the bugs, but we are testing out some more efficient UV leds
5 June 2024 10:23pm
I was thinking that you might be able to reduce the amount of time the lights were on by blinking them, but this paper seems to show that flickering mostly reduces the number of specimens attracted, though it affects some orders more than others, and, rarely, it increases the number attracted. On the other hand, the numbers of insects captures only seemed to go down by around 50% even with quite extreme flickering (10% duty cycle I.e. light only on 10% of the time) and if that had a big effect on how long the battery lasted it might be worth it, as you could run more capturing sessions between charges.
ICI calls for €20-25M project applications for Colombia
5 June 2024 5:50pm
XIII Congreso Iberoamericano de Acústica
28 May 2024 9:07pm
WILDLABS AWARDS 2024 - Underwater Passive Acoustic Monitoring (UPAM) for threatened Andean water frogs
30 March 2024 3:54pm
5 April 2024 12:13pm
Congratulations, very exciting! Keep us updated!
7 April 2024 6:09pm
This is so cool @Mauricio_Akmentins - congrats and look forward to seeing your project evolve!
1 May 2024 5:17pm
Congratulations! My first hydromoth was just arrived yesterday and so excited! Looking forward for the update from your project!!!
WILDLABS AWARDS 2024 – MothBox
15 April 2024 5:06am
18 April 2024 10:39am
Already an update from @hikinghack:
19 April 2024 12:00pm
Yeah we got it about as bare bones as possible for this level of photo resolution and duration in the field. The main costs right now are:
Pi- $80
Pijuice -$75
Battery - $85
64mp Camera - $60
which lands us at $300 already. But we might be able to eliminate that pijuice and have fewer moving parts, and cut 1/4 of our costs! Compared to something like just a single logitech brio camera that sells for $200 and only gets us like 16mp, we are able to make this thing as cheap as we could figure out! :)
19 April 2024 12:54pm
Gotcha, well I look forward to seeing future iterations and following along with your progress!!
Mothbox v3.2 Updates - Solar, HDR, Wifi Hotspots, and More!
18 April 2024 4:58am
GOSH Community Call: Environmental Sensors / Llamada a la Comunidad de GOSH: Sensores Ambientales
25 March 2024 12:01pm
Mothbox + Mothbeam Update: 4
31 January 2024 7:09pm
15 February 2024 4:49pm
We did some more testing with the Mothbeam in the forest. It's the height of dry season right now, so not many moths came out, but the mothbeam shined super bright and attracted a whole bunch of really tiny things that swarmed a lot
and some nocturnal bees
you could also see the mothbeam's aura from far away in the forest! so that was impressive!
I also tested out attaching a 12V USB booster cable to the Mothbeam, and it works
nice! So you can attach regular USB 5V battery packs to the mothbeam as well!
Seeking doctoral student to Join Move.inFormation research group for Andean condor biologging
12 February 2024 8:01pm
Program Officer - Bioacoustics, WILDLABS
22 January 2024 9:37pm
Update 3: Cheap Automated Mothbox
31 December 2023 9:37pm
1 January 2024 9:18pm
This looks amazing! I'm currently work with hastatus bats up in Bocas, it would be really interesting to utilize some of these near foraging sites. Be sure to post again when you post the final documentation on github!
Also, Gamboa......dang I miss that little slice of heaven...
Super cool work Andrew!
Best,
Travis
5 January 2024 8:56pm
Thanks!!!
10 January 2024 11:33pm
Great work! I very much look forward to trying out the MothBeam light. That's going to be a huge help in making moth monitoring more accessible.
And well done digging into the picamera2 library to reduce the amount of time the light needs to be on while taking a photo. That is a super annoying issue!
Grant for AI for biodiversity workshops (Latin America-Germany cooperations)
16 December 2023 6:27am
19 December 2023 2:55pm
2 December 2024 2:44pm
He compilado esta lista de bibliotecas de referencia acústica!
I've compiled this list of acoustic reference libraries!