The event schedule for the underwater noise workshop on Wednesday 27th February that is being jointly run by Baker Consultants Ltd and HR Wallingford has now been published.  On-line registration is now available for this event.

Baker Consultants and HR Wallingford are jointly hosting a workshop on underwater noise to be held at Renewable UK's Wave and Tidal conference in London on Wednesday 27th February 2013.

Baker Consultants and HR Wallingford join forces to provide sophisticated noise surveying monitoring and modelling service for marine environment.

Baker Consultants' marine team has been accepted to speak at RenewableUK's flagship conference in Glasgow on Wednesday 31st October 2012.

The former the industry standard for bat monitoring work, Anabats, have gradually been replaced with the new, more flexible technology of full spectrum acoustic monitoring, such as is possible with the SM2 platform. Over the last five years. Baker Consultants has found the SM2 from Wildlife Acoustics to have many advantages over the previous technology, so is acoustic monitoring in the marine environment undergoing a similar transition?

Scotland has recently become a centre for offshore renewables investment, and the magnitude of the developments currently underway and planned for the future is surprising.  A map recently published by the Scottish government has plotted the locations of many of the recently announced investments in offshore renewables around Scotland.

With over 1000 participants from all fields of acoustics the conference was a melting pot of ideas for the applications of acoustics from bioacoustics to biomedical studies and optimisation of musical instruments and room acoustics.

The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Agency (NOAA) of the US published its report last month from the marine mammal and sound workshop held in July 2010. It's online here http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/permits/mammals_sound_workshop.htm

The European Commission has published new guidance on Wind Energy developments and Natura 2000.

In a very short period of time the SM2BAT from Wildlife Acoustics has become recognised as an industry-standard remote bat detector and is widely used by consultants, universities and researchers.

Superior field equipment that records more calls brings with it the challenge of larger volumes of data to analyse.

Baker Consultants is now able to offer a full data processing service to assist in the analysis of bat survey field recordings. Using our library of bat call ‘recognisers’ our experienced bat ecologists can provide a cost-effective, independent analysis of SM2 recordings.