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Recording and Analyzing Marine Mammal Sounds (Free SIG)

Learn how to listen to and record marine mammals in your area in this marine mammal Special Interest Group (SIG).

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Recording and Analyzing Marine Mammal Sounds (Free SIG)

Recording and Analyzing Marine Mammal Sounds (Free SIG)

Learn how to listen to and record marine mammals in your area in this marine mammal Special Interest Group (SIG).

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As a follow-up to the Marine Mammals tech talk, Jim Henderson and Dave Bonnett will describe how the local community can collect data in their own backyard - Puget Sound - using hydrophones with wireless data transmitters.

For more information on this Marine Mammal project, read more here.

Details

  • Free, but please register. 
  • This event is planned for the Tech Lab on the upper floor.

Class Policies

  • Ages 14 and up are welcome.
Instructor
James Henderson

Jim graduated from Pacific Lutheran University with a bachelor's degree in chemistry and biology, spent five years as an Air Force pilot, and then earned a master's degree in oceanography at Oregon State University. During his career, he explored the world’s oceans while doing highly complex technical and scientific projects. His last major project involved building, testing, and putting into operation a unique, deep-diving, manned submersible. Now in retirement, he often can be found fly fishing in streams and rivers and exploring the western US and Canada. When home on Bainbridge Island, he's frequently in BARN's Tech or Fiber Arts studios, sewing things like zippered pouches, glasses cases, and other items to keep things organized while out and about. He's a licensed amateur radio operator (K7EXP).

Instructor
David Bonnett

Dave Bonnett trained in electronics and flew as crew Radioman/Nav and ASW systems operator in long-range patrol squadrons. He served on a number of nuclear submarines before retiring from the Navy in 1979 and has worked in underwater acoustics in most of the world's oceans for several companies. Since retirement in 2005, he has studied marine mammals in the Amazon (Pink River Dolphins) and helped analyze the acoustics of various marine mammals including blue, sperm, and killer whales. He's studying the impact of man-made noise on marine mammals.

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