Frogs of the Osa Peninsular

 

What fabulous place - primary rain forest, birds galore and plenty of frogs to record.

See https://www.researchgate.net/project/Costa-Rican-Observation-and-Analysis-of-Calls-CROAC

For the recordings!

More frogs at Greentique Wildlife Refuge, Manuel Antonio

Sat outside or hotel room, pre-breakfast, near the site entrance. Was visited by humming birds and others!

Night walk at the Greentique refuge - fantastic!

Call can be found here - https://www.researchgate.net/project/Costa-Rican-Observation-and-Analysis-of-Calls-CROAC

The frogs are calling at Macaw Lodge

But which ones.....

Check out the recordings at,

https://www.researchgate.net/project/Costa-Rican-Observation-and-Analysis-of-Calls-CROAC

Frogs is us!

Trip to Costa Rica to record a few frog calls for our CROAC product development. 

Installed at Macaw Lodge awaiting dusk and the frogs.

Start of semi-retirement

Well been a busy start since the 30 June end of consulting projects.

Managed to finish off the paper on the analysis of Galsbury bridge. Essentially to demonstrate that the SAIN unit can detect damage to a bridge arch. Just by listening to the sound of traffic passing over it.

Pretty cool or what! 

Check out the preprint - here - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/361670463_Sounding_road_bridges_for_changing_structural_integrity

End of consulting projects!

 The last couple of years have been frantic. I was supposed to be retired but ended up on a couple of projects that ate up the time.

HOWEVER - as of yesterday.....

I have taken the decision to down tools on consultancy work and focus on stuff I want to do. That includes travel as well as finishing off the frog and bridge products we have built within the Advisory business.

Feels like I've retired - still 'working' but not getting paid for any of this - does that constitute retirement?

Anyway I need to run through what I can remember of the past year to try and not have a gap in the blog records.

Things that happened in 2021 and up to July in 2022 that I can remember - in bullet form,

1. Presentation of bridge monitoring and satellites at Manseds conference - first I'd done in quite a while.
2. Many trips to the 'Static' in Wales - excellent working breaks.
3. Roxy (our motorhome) trip with Amanda around Scotland - fantastic!
4. 1st and 2nd Glasbury bridge recordings taken with SAIN
5. Anniversary in LLandrindod Wells
6. Start work on Autonomous Minesweeper project for Thales.
7. Trip to Plymouth to see 'the boat'
8. Trip to Madrid with Richard to visit FOSSA Syatems and update on SAIN dev.
9. Christmas in the Static
10. Trip to Maui - WOW always great. Lahaina flat and worked through analysis of SAIN data with Stuart.
11. Trips to Bristol, Templecombe on Thales job
12. Trip to Crete on historical tour.
13. HS1 'wall' recordings with SAIN
14. 3rd Glasbury bridge recording
15. Salisbury and Bristol again to finish Thales job.
16. ENDED CONSULTANCY PROJECTS FOR NETWORK RAIL AND THALES IN JUNE

which probably doesn't mean much to anyone but myself. 

Now to refocus on SAIN.