Delta and Dawn going home.

Finally! The whales are going home.

Our Ignite Talk at Where 2.0

Jesse Evans and Samuel Evans on stage during Ignite Where 2.0 at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, California.

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Sam and Jesse Speaking at Where 2.0

Sorry for the lack of 'focus' in our image. Better video coming soon.
Jesse

Where 2.0

It's official- We will be releasing our Wild Sanctuary KML layer at the Where 2.0 Conference this coming week. The KML layer will be available for download on May, 29 at www.wildsanctuary.com

"Whale Whisperer" Did It Once - Can He Do It Again?

This is a big day for us at 30proof and Wild Sanctuary. Our clients, Katherine and Bernie Krause, are on a coast guard cutter, Pike, in the Port of Sacramento hoping to lure the whales back to sea. This morning while they were meeting with Lt. Gov. Garamendi, they were informed that they have been dubbed the "Whale Whisperers" by the media...

This From News 10 Sacramento:

Marine scientists say time is absolutely critical if two humpback whales floundering in the Sacramento deep water channel are to survive. A rescue team assembled Wednesday evening to launch a full scale rescue attempt at dawn.

To get the job done organizers of the rescue are bringing in the same man who came up with the successful plan that saved Humphrey the humpback whale when he go stuck in the Sacramento delta 22 years ago.

Dr. Bernie Krause says there is a positive difference this time in that it won't take three weeks to figure out what to do. "We’re going to try one thing rather than 50 or 60 different things," said Krause.

The primary strategy is to lure the whales out of the deep water channel instead of driving them down river. There will be no banging of pipes from a boat at one end while whale songs are played from a boat at the other. The new technique will be to suspend an underwater speaker which will play whale feeding sounds recorded by Krause in Alaskan waters.

But, Dr. Krause says this is not Alaska and the situation is far more challenging than it was with Humphrey. "It's a much narrower channel for a much longer distance and we don't know how the sounds are going to play so, one never knows," said Dr. Krause.

Still, he believes the job can be done in 10 hours. Dr. Krause says Humphrey swam easily at seven miles an hour. If he can get the mother and her calf to swim at the same speed, Krause says the whales could be in the San Francisco Bay by the evening and on the other side of the Golden Gate Bridge by Friday.

"Watch what happens tomorrow," said Krause. "It's either going to be a big surprise, and everything's going to be great, or I'm going to be crying."


Copyright 2007
News10/KXTV

Bernie Krause's 2nd Time Saving the Whales

Oh, by the way...

We are in the process of launching our new website, but it will not be until after all of our work is finished for Where 2.o.
Clients first, always, clients first....

Dept. Of Buzz focuses on Wild Sanctuary

Our dearly beloved clients at Wild Sanctuary have received an incredible amount of press over the last week following an article in New Scientist written by author Celeste Biever. When the story was published on the morning of May 9th, it was quickly picked up by the BBC. The attention from the BBC has lead to the story being picked up in many newspapers, websites and blogs from around the world. Cleveland, Mumbai, Borneo, Bangladesh, Edinburgh, London, San Francisco and Bangalore are just some of the places that are pubishing stories. Other U.S.-based tech websites such as SlashDot and Digg have had discussions. We also want to send out a thank you to Sara Ford of the Visual Studio wing of Microsoft for recognizing us on her blog.

Many of the stories published have been slightly bent from the original truth. The first story published in New Scientist is the accurate one. First, we are releasing a KML layer that highlights 26 spots around the globe were users can hear the nature recordings created by the Wild Sanctuary team lead by Dr. Bernie Krause and Katherine Krause. We will be also releasing various sundry of APIs, etc. The release date will be May 29, the opening day of Where 2.0 in San Jose, CA. Next, all of the sound with this KML layer and all future ones released by Wild Sanctuary all relate to sounds that have complete scientific metadata. The metadata contains geographic locations, weather, date, time, terrestrial habitat and much more. They are meant, above all, to be useful to scientific study. We will not be adding sound to all parts of Google Earth as some stories suggest, that is for another day.

Here are some of the links being published:
Gizmodo UK
The Daily Mirror
Tech Spot
SlashDot
The Cleveland Leader
CrunchGear
and the BBC
(The complete list can be found here.)

More information can be had by contacting the VP of Wild Sanctuary, Inc., Katherine Krause.