Hurricanes & HydroMoths at AudioMoth conference
February 10th, 2024In September, I received an invitation to deliver this presentation for the 2023 AudioMoth Online Conference, organized by Nils Bouillard of Barbastella Echology. Thankfully it was recorded and Nils granted me permission to post it on YouTube.
As part of some lessons on underwater soundscapes, the Young Sound Seekers program deployed two HydroMoths in Mosquito Lagoon from September 24 to November 19. We unexpectedly ended up documenting the underwater soundscape during Hurricane Ian, which crossed over Florida days after our deployment.
This presentation explains how we captured its crossing over Canaveral National Seashore with HydroMoths from Open Acoustic Devices. I shared our setup for an inexpensive recording rig, some of the sounds captured by the recorders, and how the HydroMoths performed in extreme weather.
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