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Understanding the Implications of Your Ultrasonic Detector Settings
3:00 EDT | 19:00 UTC
This practical, experiment-driven training focuses on how detector settings influence the acoustic data recorded in the field. Rather than treating settings as a checklist of recommended values, we’ll examine what happens when individual settings are changed, how those changes affect recorded files, and what those differences may mean for detection, call quality, and interpretation. Using side-by-side field examples collected under controlled changes to detector configuration, we’ll explore the practical consequences of settings such as gain, trigger threshold, trigger window, minimum pulse duration, filtering, and file length. The goal is to give you, the practitioner, a stronger understanding of the trade-offs behind the settings you choose and the data those choices produce.
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This practical, experiment-driven training focuses on how detector settings influence the acoustic data recorded in the field. Rather than treating settings as a checklist of recommended values, we’ll examine what happens when individual settings are changed, how those changes affect recorded files, and what those differences may mean for detection, call quality, and interpretation. Using side-by-side field examples collected under controlled changes to detector configuration, we’ll explore the practical consequences of settings such as gain, trigger threshold, trigger window, minimum pulse duration, filtering, and file length. The goal is to give you, the practitioner, a stronger understanding of the trade-offs behind the settings you choose and the data those choices produce.
*Reminder: Please check your time zone before registering.*
Adam Rusk
Adam is a Certified Senior Ecologist and Certified Wildlife Biologist. He is the founder and owner of EchoLogical Insights and Analytics, LLC, and serves as a Bat Program Lead for a clean energy and electric utility company.
Over the past decade, his work has focused on bat ecology in the context of renewable energy development. He has led and supported acoustic surveys, mist netting, radio telemetry, fatality monitoring, and smart curtailment projects across the United States, with experience spanning project coordination, field deployment, data analysis, and reporting.
When not working, Adam spends his time with his spouse and three young children, attempting to grow a garden bigger than the year before, or generally spending as much time outdoors as the weather allows.
