Resources

This page contains links to useful resources from our lab and others.

Eavesdropping on Birds – an accessible introduction to our lab’s approach to bioacoustic monitoring and analysis, written by Tessa Rhinehart
USFWS blog post – a summary of our work monitoring songbird populations in restored central Pennsylvania forests, posted by the US Fish and Wildlife Service Northeast
Washington Post article – an overview article on the use of bioacoustics for bird conservation, with quotes from Justin

OpenSoundscape – our lab’s open source package for bioacoustic analysis (GitHub repo)
AudioMoth Setup Guide – instructions for setting up and configuring AudioMoth recorders, written by Tessa Rhinehart in our lab (Open Acoustic Devices now has a shorter guide based on this material on their website)
AudioMoth Performance Testing – information on the acoustic performance of AudioMoth recorders in different orientations and housing options, written by Sam Lapp in our lab
AudioMoth and Song Meter Micro Battery Testing – information on the expected battery life of these two recorders for a variety of sample rates, gain settings, device temperatures, and battery types, written by Nick Stahlman in our lab
Open Acoustic Devices – the designers of the AudioMoth field recorder, see also the Hill et al 2018 paper
Wildlabs.net – large online community with ecology/conservation tech discussions

Data Science Lessons – Justin’s materials used for teaching two day introductory data science workshops, see in particular the ~2 hour self-paced tutorial on git and GitHub
Software Carpentry lessons – collection of introductory tutorials on computing and data science
The Practice of Reproducible Research – online version of book edited by Justin on reproducibility, see in particular the Basic Reproducible Workflow Template chapter