The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology has begun a
roughly quarterly Marine Collection Newsletter for the marine
bioacoustics community, in PDF format. The first edition is available
for immediate download via (the file of 280 KB):
http://mlsource.ornith.cornell.edu/marine/newsletter/MCNIssue1.pdf
Information in the newsletter includes the marine sound collection
status; information on accessing the collection; technical notes on
recording gear and sound recording; and the NOPP-funded Sea of Sound
Project. We also plan to use the newsletter to solicit advice from the
community at large on tool development for exploring and analyzing the
collection online, expansion of the collection, and other collection
issues.
To avoid unsolicited mailings, I currently plan to email future
editions of the PDF only to recent contributors to the collection, but
I would like to get this information into the hands of anyone with
interest in the project. Please visit the link above and look at this
first edition. If you would like to be included on the email list for
future editions, please send me an email or feel free to call.
Additionally, we currently have some open-reel tapes of Ken Norris' in
the collection that we cannot play back on our reel-to-reel machines.
If you or someone you know has access to a 1/2" 4-track in-line
machine, capable of 30 & 60 ips playback, or a 1/2" 7-channel inline,
capable of 15-60 ips playback (originals recorded on a Precisions
Instruments), and you would be willing to loan it to the project,
please contact me.
Best,
Shelagh
Shelagh A. Smith
Assistant Curator
Marine Collection
Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
159 Sapsucker Woods Road
Ithaca, New York 14850
Phone: 607.254.2492
Fax: 607.254.2439
The Mission of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology: "To interpret and
conserve the Earth's biological diversity through research, education,
and citizen science focused on birds."
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