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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) Chaired by Dr. Val Veirs of Beam Reach and Professor Emeritus of Physics and Environmental Science at Colorado College.

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