{"id":863,"date":"2021-09-09T09:45:11","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T09:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blokas.io\/reads\/?p=863"},"modified":"2021-09-09T12:02:43","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T12:02:43","slug":"interview-orcasound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blokas.io\/reads\/interview-orcasound\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview: Orcasound"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We are all familiar with sounds\u2019 abilities to heal us. From the casual feeling-good emotion that our favorite song can evoke to actual music therapy. However, have you ever thought about the idea that sounds can also help us save our surroundings, nature in particular? This is why we invite you to learn more about a project from the USA called Orcasound, a Citizen\/Science orca monitoring system. Today we discuss Orcasound with Stephen Hicks, Raspberry Pi expert and Orcasound orcanode pioneer. So without further ado, come and learn with us!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cTo us, sound is umm… pressure waves! :)\u201d<\/em>
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Orcasound is such a unique project. Please tell us more about its meaning and beginning!<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

I would say Orcasound is about raising the level of awareness about the acoustic environment of the ocean and how that affects marine life. If you listen, you will more often hear ships than orcas on some hydrophones, and you really get a sense of how much man-made noise there is in the ocean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scott Veirs and his dad Val came up with Orcasound. The current website is the second iteration of the project. I believe the first version was funded by NOAA, but the current project was started with a kickstarter and also had some additional funding. Scott lives in Seattle, and I have a mutual friend who introduced me to the project several years ago when they were just getting started with the transition from Notebook Computers to Raspberry Pi. I had done a small amount of work on hydrophones for our mutual friend and was interested in Open Source projects and platforms like Raspberry Pi and Arduino. So that’s how I got involved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n