Dear Friends,

Just a quick note of apology for sending my Mailchimp announcement to our listserv. locustream@nujus.net is not in my list and that should assure any of my future announcements to this listserv are meant only for you its subscribers.

Interestingly, John Hopkins alerted me last Tuesday, after he had oddly received an unsubscribe email from our listserv notifying him that eric@ericleonardson.org had been unsubscribed, as if it were his address.

I would like to add that among those events announced in the previous email, was the singing insect monitoring & soundwalk at the Chicago Park District's North Park Village Nature Center. Naturalist Carl Strang gave a thorough presentation on how to recognize the sounds of different species of cicadas, katydids, crickets, and grasshoppers. This information was used on our soundwalk and also to enlist citizen scientists for Carl's Singing Insect Monitoring Program - SIMP.

In the concluding discussion Greg had the good sense to suggest to Carl and the Park District staff that they set up real time stream on the Locusonus map as a way to facilitate the monitoring program. Greg added, as we're now aware with the Raspberry Pi and the new software, that the cost and technical set-up is more affordable and accessible than ever. He even offered to help the park district staff and other participants with this. Thank You, Greg! I'm happy to connect you with Kathleen Soler off list to pursue this further.

Also, I plan to post a follow-up about SIMP and the other soundwalks we led on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. This will appear soon on the MSAE website: http://mwsae.org/

Best regards, 
Eric