--- title: A Millenium of Choruses in the Cloud - An Ecoacoustics... description: A computer scientist turned ecoacoustics researcher shares an 18-year journey building a continent-scale acoustic monitoring system for Australia. The talk... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/a-millenium-of-choruses-in-the-cloud---an-ecoacoustics-odyssey-paul-roe-yow-2025-3lklwoeqi twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: A Millenium of Choruses in the Cloud - An Ecoacoustics Odyssey • Paul Roe • YOW! 2025 | daily.dev og:description: A computer scientist turned ecoacoustics researcher shares an 18-year journey building a continent-scale acoustic monitoring system for Australia. 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The talk covers deploying ~360 solar-powered recorders across Australia to collect millennia-equivalent hours of environmental audio, building cloud infrastructure to store and analyze petabytes of data, and applying deep learning with transfer learning and embeddings to classify bird and animal calls. Key technical decisions include using REST APIs for data access, web components for embeddable citizen science tools, open data licensing (CC BY 4.0), full data provenance tracking down to SD card and firmware versions, and privacy techniques borrowed from healthcare data. The project also evolved to partner with Indigenous land managers and respect data sovereignty principles. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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