OSA EARS - Real Time Rain Forest Sound

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OSA EARS is a project designed to provide real time 3D sound and a cloud of species and climate change data from one of our planet’s most bio-diverse rain forests to anyone anywhere in the world with internet. A networked array of microphones, web cams and sensor banks will expand over time to cover OSA Conservation’s entire 5000 acre wildlife corridor, from ground level to canopy top. Located on Costa Rica’s Osa peninsula OSA EARS will create a broad based platform for researchers interested in habitat protection, soundscape ecology, remote sensing and bird song. It will serve as a home base for cutting edge field work, offering an opportunity to develop and adapt surveillance and sensor technologies for interdisciplinary wildlife monitoring and protection. The web site will serve as a platform for user interface innovation, providing incredible educational possibilities for classrooms worldwide, with streaming audio and the latest in species identification sonograms. Additional features will include multi-sensor and video feeds, a user’s forum, and an alarm clock function. Imagine waking up to the real time sounds of scarlet macaws, howler monkeys, wild cats and insect poly-rhythms. The OSA EARS project is hosted by OSA Conservation, a widely respected non profit NGO engaged in a mission to conserve globally-significant biodiversity for future generations. This location is exceptional on all levels, with vast bio-diversity, stable and supportive government, low human encroachment and high speed WiFi provided by a communications tower recently installed for Coast Guard monitoring. OSA EARS is a collaborative project under the direction of Charles Lindsay. Lindsay is an artist who works with technology, and an environmental advocate, having spent years in southeast Asia concentrating on issues related to tribal peoples, rain forests and green turtles. He is now the SETI Institute’s first artist in residence, a Guggenheim Fellow, recipient of the Robert Rauschenberg Residency and artist in Residence at Imagine Science Films. He recently addressed the DARPA funded 100 Year Starship Symposium and the 2014 class of Rhodes scholars in Oxford. OSA EARS is seeking technical and engineering assistance to develop and integrate affordable monitoring, processing, network, and display systems that must operate long term in harsh climates. The project requires short duration seed financing and long term sustainable fiscal resources. - For specific information concerning fiscal and/or technical participation in the OSA EARS program please email us here: project-director@osa-ears.org OSA EARS TEAM Program Director Charles Lindsay OSA Conservation Secretary Adrian Forsyth OSA Conservation Executive Director Manuel Ramirez GoPro Drone pilot and Digital Artist Markley Boyer Land Conservation Manager Max Villalobos Science Program Manger Juan Carlos Cruz Diaz Cerro Osa Station Manager Larry Villalobos Staff Ornithologist Pablo Porras Research Assistant + Night Guide Manuel Sanchez Platform Builder John Kelson Advising Architect Allan Shope Systems Advisor Paul Roossin 3D + Binaural Sound Advisor Edgar Choueiri Systems Advisor Randall Steeb Project Advisor Charles Conn Costa Rica Liason Hernán Jimenez Concept, Field Recordings, Video Charles Lindsay Additional Bird Song Recordings Jeff Woodman Artistic Advisor Catherine Chalmers For general information and complete staff directory please visit www.osaconservation.org or contact us by email here info@osa-ears.org For media coverage or content licensing please email us here: media@osa-ears.org (A Spanish language version of this video is now live on Vimeo. The audio streaming web site is in development. Please stay tuned :) www.osa-ears.org