University of Melbourne
Hi everyone,
Experienced or a newbie with acoustic monitoring? Doesn’t matter, we want to hear from you! We want to know your wish list for acoustic monitoring technology. Power, wireless communications, on-device species ID…you name it!
We are conducting an online survey (about 10 mins) to understand the future needs of acoustic monitoring technology applied to the study of biodiversity (terrestrial and aquatic). By participating in this survey, you will be contributing to the development of a roadmap for acoustic monitoring technology, a publicly available document to support strategic planning of future open-source acoustic devices.
** Take the survey here! **
Please forward this survey to anyone who may be interested. We aim to get as many respondents as possible from all over the planet to better reflect the technology needs of the bio/eco-acoustics community.
The survey will close on Friday 26th of March, and we’ll present the summarised results here in this Wildlabs thread.
Already participated in the recent Open Acoustic Devices hydrophone survey? No problem! This is a separate survey with different aims, and we would value your thoughts.
Your contribution and time are very much appreciated!
José Lahoz-Monfort (University of Melbourne)
Ashton Dickerson (Research Assistant, University of Melbourne)
(in collaboration with Alex Rogers, Andy Hill and Peter Prince from Open Acoustic Devices)
This research has been approved by the Human Ethics Committee of the University of Melbourne (HREC 20543). Contact José Lahoz-Monfort ([email protected]) for any queries.
22 March 2021 11:29pm
Hey everyone, only 5 DAYS LEFT to take the survey! We’re just short of 100 respondents now, and would be great to get as much coverage as possible! Please consider responding if you haven’t done so already, and spread to your contacts who might be interested.
Responses so far show a clear support for the open-source option for acoustic monitoring technology. Almost 70% would be willing to spend time or resources to learn (or have someone in their team learning) the skills that allow you to customise open-source acoustic devices. More than half thought it would be useful to have a “developer version” of an acoustic device (that you can tinker with, and integrate/connect to other devices).
Please contribute your thoughts to help the acoustic community design the open-source monitoring technology of the future!
24 March 2021 4:13am
Hi everyone, we’ve decided to extend the survey for 3 more weeks, until the 18th of April!
That will be the final date (the online survey tool we use is not free, and we’ve got budget limitations :-)
We’re now over 100 respondents from all continents, but we do have significant gaps (e.g. SE Asia and China, many parts of Africa) which we would love to cover. There is also a slight bias towards terrestrial acoustics (only 18% report working in aquatic habitats), but this might just reflect the number of people working in terrestrial vs aquatic acoustics generally. In any case, would also love to get more respondents from the wet side of life. Please participate and spread to your contacts.
And big thanks to those of you who’ve already participated!!
José Lahoz-Monfort
University of Melbourne