An Opportunity to Help the Orcas

Val and Leslie Veirs share this announcement with you…

Dear family and friends,

Leslie and I are writing to let you know that Scott is taking a big step to try to improve our long-term efforts to help the whales. For 15 years we have installed and maintained a network of hydrophones and streamed, via the World Wide Web, the underwater sounds from our network of Puget Sound hydrophones to listeners near and far.

Over the past few years our hardware and software and streaming interface have aged and degraded and last fall we thought that maybe the time had come to shut things down. But, Scott has stepped up and is going to try to bring the network into the modern world with cloud computing and then restore and rehabilitate our aging infrastructure and expand to some additional sites.

The first step was announced on Earth Day. This first step is a Kickstarter campaign setup to bring in enough funds to create a new front-end to the underwater sounds that will present a seamless interface to our listeners and we will be able to support many more listeners than in the past. There will be no more waiting until someone signs off before an additional listener can start.

If this first step is successful, then latter steps will be taken to restore failed sites, improve existing sites and expand the network of hydrophones.

So, we are hoping that our listeners worldwide and our family and friends will want to help the orcas survive and help Scott and us in our conservation efforts. If so, please contribute to this Kickstarter campaign.

And, please forward an invitation to contribute to your friends and post it in whatever social media channels that you have access to.

Thanks so much for helping OrcaSound.net!

Val and Leslie Veirs

Please click here to view the Kickstarter campaign.

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