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Recent progress:

• Fall 2022: Orca Network funded by Quiet Sound project to provide real time sightings to WRAS via Acartia.io for 6-month test; Orcasound integration with Acartia begins during Microsoft Hackathon with mapping acoustic detections and moderation into the Acartia data scheme.
• Summer 2022: Orca Network and Beam Reach beta-test Cascadia web app and Whale/Ocean Alert mobile apps as input devices
• Spring 2022: Community Science & the Acartia data cooperative: session at the 2022 Salish Sea Ecosystem Conference (YouTube video)

TABLE OF CONTENTS Start times for each speaker and section of the panel discussion

00:00:14 Intro by Val Veirs

00:02:33 Panelist introductions

00:05:22 Susan Berta, Orca Network / Langley Whale Center -- “Orca Network’s Whale Sighting Network: benefits of a real-time sighting network empowering community science”

00:23:39 Scott Veirs, orcasound.net -- “Orcasound: open source code to listen live to the Salish Sea and conserve Southern Resident killer whales”

00:31:07 Maria Baron Palamar, Resolve Conservation -- “Is sound worth a thousand words? How listening to whale vocalizations (and songs) affect people's behavior towards conservation”

00:41:34 Virgil Zetterlind, Conserve.io -- “Whale Alert: Empowering the Public to Help Whales Through Awareness, Compliance, and Sightings”

00:51:46 Scott Veirs for Nick Byrne, Peter Ince, and Ali Alaydrus, TypeHuman -- “Acartia.io: a distributed data cooperative for sharing animal location data across the Salish Sea, from orcas to zooplankton”

01:05:15 Discussion for ~25 minutes