We're building open source tools to listen underwater, focused on monitoring endangered orcas (killer whales) along the west coast of North America. We operate a network of hydrophones that anyone can listen to live (https://live.orcasound.net/). We have a community of over 6,000 citizen scientists who use our tools to help us detect orcas & other marine life. Short-term our goal is to help conservation, long term we want to contribute to scientific research (orca behavior & communication).
It's an incredibly broad project that ranges from:
- hardware (building hydrophones & deploying electronics underwater)
- embedded systems / IoT (capturing & streaming data from our locations)
- live streaming & audio processing
- machine learning & data science (our dataset is nearly 10tb, all open data)
- mapping & GIS
- full-stack web
- design, UX, UI
Tech stack: Python, Elixir, Javascript/Typescript, React, C#, PostgreSQL
We need so many things that there's almost certainly something you can contribute to, regardless of skill level.
If you're interested, come say hi in our community chat on Zulip! https://orcasound.zulipchat.com/