Get involved
There is many ways you can help in the recovery of marine life
, especially for the Souther Resident Killer Whales that call the Salish Sea Home.
Check out the ways you can help below!
Volunteer
Citizen Scientist
First and foremost, you can volunter as a citizen scientist. Not only an you listen for whales to marvel at the symphony of ssounds they make.
but also you can listen 'for' whales-- helping monitor their habitat and notifying the network when you hear them or a noise that could endager them.
In Person
You can also volunteer in-person with any of them current Orcasound network members, or with a new organizationin your neighborhood that you convince to become a new member
Volunteer opportunities can include helping deploy or fix hydrophones, teaching groups how to 'listen for whales,' or helping create new educational or outreach projects.
There is many ways you can help in the recovery of marine life , especially for the Souther Resident Killer Whales
For Developers
A growing team of volunteer developers and talented consultants are building and improving Orcasound. Some are developing the new open-source software that captures and conveys ocean sounds. Others are pioneering the DIY , low cost hydrophone and computerhardware that allows humans to listen to marine soundscapes in more and more places
Orcasound Web App
Democracy Lab Hackathon
Our crown jewel is the Orcasound Web App-- a suite of new cloud and browser based ways for citizens scientist and artifical intelligence to listen for whales in real time.As of april 2020 this is the Orcasound tech Stack
- Orcanode:Linux-based ADC with lie-streaming
- Bush Point & Port Towsend: ffmpeg + s3fs in a bash script
- Orcasound Lab: Testing new Python script using ffmpeg+boto+/-redis
- Orcasite: front- and back -end of the Orcasound app
- backend is an Elixir app using Phoenix framework.
- the Phoenix app serves as React app
- Public site-- live.orcasound.net
If you're based in the Pacific Northwest you can work with Orcasound in-person at a hackathon (see the Orcasound projects at democracy lab) No matter where you are, you can join Orcasound Slack, check out our Github repository and Trello boards, subscribe to the Orcasound dev email distribution list, and finish a place to contribute your talents. We hope you will share your expertise and innovations with us, and maybe even earn your way into the Orcasound HacHacker hall of Fame
Memorandum Of Agreements
The real time audio streams, citizen science projects, educational material and outreach projects of Orcasound are brought to you by the current network member, listed below who have e-signed the 2016-2020 Memorandum of Agreements(MOA)Any organization or individual is welcome to join the network(for free!)either as the host of an hydrophone node, a researcher or citizen scientist an educator/activist or general volunteer.
If you are an individual wanting to volunteer , collaborate or donate, check out the many ways you can support Orcasound.Everyone can listen for whales, and learn the diverse sounds of Salish Sea.
If you are an organization wanting to join the network as the host of a new hydrophone node, an educational/outreacg node, or both -- just read the history, mission and vision of the netowrk e-sign the MOA and then email info@orcasound.net to begin collaborating.There are no membership fees-- just benefits roles and responsibilities.
Donate
Help us and our Orcasound network members by making charitable contribution to our partners, many of whom are 501(c)3 organizations Check out the link below to help strengthen and grow our network, while supporting our on-going conservation, research, and educational efforts.
You can also directly support the many dedicated volunteers who help Orcasound keep running and improve over time. Take a look at our 'Hacker hall of fame ' and our Github repositories and consider sponsoring the work of our most-dedicated contributors.
