The Natural Sounds Program of the National Park Service will hold a
training session in San Francisco for all soundscape recordists
interested in volunteering to help the national parks inventory and
preserve their soundscapes.
Training will cover attended monitoring technique with Palm software
and analysis of data collected by automated recording stations.
Everyone contemplating volunteering should attend.
The session will be hosted by the Nature Sounds Society:
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM Saturday, February 23, 2008
Dan Dugan Sound Design
290 Napoleon St. Studio E
San Francisco, CA 94124
RSVP: (415) 821-9776
Directions: <http://www.dandugan.com/Directions_to_DDSD.html>
Trainers will be Emma Lynch and Damon Joyce from the Natural Sounds
Program's office in Ft. Collins, Colorado. Software used for attended
monitoring (a combination of Palm and Windows) and analysis (Windows)
is available for free. Bring compatible PDAs and laptops.
Natural Sounds Program Mission Statement:
"The Natural Sounds Program works to protect, maintain, or restore
natural soundscape resources in parks. We fulfill this mission by
working in partnership with parks and others to increase scientific
and public understanding of the value and character of natural
soundscapes and to eliminate or minimize noise intrusions."
See: <http://www.nature.nps.gov/naturalsounds/>
-Dan Dugan, board member, Nature Sounds Society
(Cross-posted to nature recordists, NSS announce,
muwo-soundscape-monitoring, and Bay Area Sound Ecology groups. The
more copies you get, the hipper you are!)
"While a picture is worth a thousand words, a
sound is worth a thousand pictures." R. Murray Schafer via Bernie Krause
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