By okeon_admin
on Monday,November 20th, 2017
in Audio, Biodiversity, Research,
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At every OKEON site there is a small green box attached to a tree. These boxes are acoustic monitors, and they are recording natural sounds almost constantly. As part of the OKEON project, we use these natural sound recordings, or “soundscapes”, as a way of monitoring biodiversity. We collect more than 1 terabyte of audio […]
By okeon_admin
on Wednesday,April 5th, 2017
in Collecting, OKEON update, Sorting Insects,
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It is close to two years since we started to set up the field network. Originally it was simply an idea, then we set up 24 field sites across Okinawa with 72 SLAM traps as well as weather stations, acoustic recorders, and camera traps. With the assistance of various people this network was created in […]
By okeon_admin
on Wednesday,March 1st, 2017
in Ants, Collaboration, OPG,
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We visited Ishigaki Island to see if there are any fire ants or any other invasive ants threats and check on the ants currently inhabiting in the area. I shuddered at the sight of the grassland surrounding Ishigaki airport and the man-made land at the harbor. It looked so similar to the scenery of Taiwan, […]
By okeon_admin
on Friday,February 17th, 2017
in Audio, Biodiversity, Data, Research,
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February 14th is Valentine’s Day, and for birds living in Okinawa it’s the perfect time to start thinking about building a nest. In warm years like this one, the Tree Sparrow (スズメ) begins its breeding season around this time, followed by the Pacific Swallow (リュウキュウツバメ), the Japanese White-eye (メジロ), and the Japanese Tit (シジュウカラ). If […]
By okeon_admin
on Friday,January 13th, 2017
in Audio, Biodiversity, Data, Research,
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The OKEON churamori project is moving forward and more devices are being set in place to collect data, including camera traps and acoustic traps at various sites. In the mean time, the project team has already started to do some data processing. We found some very interesting intersections across devices, in particular, we were able […]
