{"id":1201,"date":"2017-02-17T05:51:21","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T05:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/okeon.unit.oist.jp\/?p=1201"},"modified":"2017-02-17T05:52:05","modified_gmt":"2017-02-17T05:52:05","slug":"listening-sounds-nature-switching-oists-acoustic-monitoring-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/okeon.unit.oist.jp\/?p=1201","title":{"rendered":"Listening to the sounds of nature: switching on OIST\u2019s acoustic monitoring network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>\nFebruary 14th is Valentine\u2019s Day, and for birds living in Okinawa it\u2019s the perfect time to start thinking about building a nest. In warm years like this one, the Tree Sparrow (\u30b9\u30ba\u30e1) begins its breeding season around this time, followed by the Pacific Swallow (\u30ea\u30e5\u30a6\u30ad\u30e5\u30a6\u30c4\u30d0\u30e1), the Japanese White-eye (\u30e1\u30b8\u30ed), and the Japanese Tit (\u30b7\u30b8\u30e5\u30a6\u30ab\u30e9). If you look closely at the eaves of houses around the island, you may notice the swallows beginning their nesting behavior.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1202\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter img-responsive\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1202\" class=\"wp-image-1202 img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/okeon.unit.oist.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC_0053-2.jpg\" alt=\"Acoustic monitoring\" width=\"500\" height=\"378\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1202\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Japanese Tit singing near Takeyanbaru; Photo Credit: Sam Ross<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Researchers from arilab\u00a0are monitoring the onset of the breeding season not only for birds, but also for frogs, crickets, and other organisms that communicate with sound. This is accomplished using a new acoustic monitoring network. While testing of this network has been ongoing for the last year, its installation and activation were completed last week, just in time for Valentine\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1203\" style=\"width: 342px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter img-responsive\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1203\" class=\"wp-image-1203 img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/okeon.unit.oist.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC_0087.jpg\" alt=\"Acoustic monitoring\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1203\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Acoustic Recorder; Photo Credit: Nick Friedman<\/p><\/div>\n<p>OIST&#8217;s acoustic monitoring network produces more audio than scientists can analyze by ear: assuming you listened to the recordings every minute of every day, you would be twenty four years older by the time you finished a single year\u2019s data. To fix this problem, OIST scientists are training computer models to recognize patterns of activity and to detect individual species of birds, frogs, and insects.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1204\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter img-responsive\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1204\" class=\"wp-image-1204 img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/okeon.unit.oist.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC_0084.jpg\" alt=\"Acoustic monitoring\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1204\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shinji Iriyama, Ayumi Inoguchi, Sam Ross; Photo Credit: Nick Friedman<\/p><\/div>\n<p>(Written by Nicholas Friedman)\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 14th is Valentine\u2019s Day, and for birds living in Okinawa it\u2019s the perfect time to start thinking about building a nest. In warm years like this one, the Tree Sparrow (\u30b9\u30ba\u30e1) begins its breeding season around this time, followed by the Pacific Swallow (\u30ea\u30e5\u30a6\u30ad\u30e5\u30a6\u30c4\u30d0\u30e1), the Japanese White-eye (\u30e1\u30b8\u30ed), and the Japanese Tit (\u30b7\u30b8\u30e5\u30a6\u30ab\u30e9). 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