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NESTER
Networked Environment Sonic-Toolkits for Exploratory Research

• Stephen Downie, Bryan Heidorn, Mike Ward (Illinois Natural History Survey), David Ward (INHS), L. Auvil, and D. Tcheng (NCSA/ALG)
• The NESTER project brings together four currently independent research threads to form the foundation for new, cross-domain, high-impact, bio-acoustic research collaboration. Under the rubric of a 3-year field and development study based upon the collection of remotely gathered Cardinalis cardinalis (Northern Cardinal) vocalization data (i.e., bird songs), NESTER will leverage participant expertise in the domains of bio-acoustics, music/audio processing, distributed data mining, and scientific collaboration to develop a suite of networked environmental sonic-toolkit prototypes.