Orcasphere

Live-blogged notes from a UW Water Seminar talk by Rick Keil’s student Brittany Kimball Spicing Up the Sound: Cooking Spices and Aberrant Chemicals in Puget Sound and How They Get There Sound Citizen collects water samples from around the region to understand the transport of common household chemicals from human sources into the marine environment.  [...]

Here’s a glimpse into the future of killer whale sound archives. Steven Ness and collaborators at the University of Victoria have created the Orchive — a suite of open-source, web-based tools for listening to and annotating the recordings of northern resident orcas made by Paul and Helena Spong at OrcaLab. Using Ruby on Rails and [...]