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Gathering the data that are analyzed and presented here!

Beam Reach wiki

This is a place to organize and share data and research projects from the Beam Reach Marine Science and Sustainability School.

Science

Equipment

• Hydrophones
• Echosounder
• Fish tags and receivers
• Recording hardware

Data

• fall 2007 data directory
• fall 2006, fall 2005...
• all sounds
• all images
• how to archive video? (Vimeo?)

Processing

Useful tools for processing:

• Class resources and literature

On-going group research projects:

• localization tests
• Vocalization attributable to individual whales
• Biosonics echosounder
• Ling cod acoustic tagging
• Automated photo identification
• Puget Soundscape
• Salish Sea hydrophone network (Collaboration with the Whale Museum and others)

Space for individual research projects (e.g. externships)

• Your project here?

Published or public results

• Past student research papers and presentations
• fall 2007 science synopsis
• Source level of calls from Southern resident killer whales (Val Veirs and Scott Veirs, 2005)
• Ambient noise in killer whale critical habitat (Val Veirs and Scott Veirs, 2006; 2008)
• Commercial shipping noise in Haro Strait (Scott Veirs and Val Veirs, 2006)
• fall 2007 mother+calf localization
• Information theory applied to southern resident killer whale calls (Kenna Lehmann et al., 2008)

Sustainability

Ship quieting technology

Oil spill and ship collision prevention

Sustainability reports

Put a link to the sustainability_log.xls file here

Intro to wiki editing

• MediaWiki FAQ
• How to contribute (editing basics)

Wiki administration

• Configuration settings list
• MediaWiki release mailing list

Consult the User's Guide for information on using the wiki software.