Orcasite

Orcasite is the name given to the Orcasound listening web-app. This is what Orcasound is- the ability to listen to live-streamed underwater microphones, called hydrophones, installed in marine waters. Many users think of this when they think of Orcasound. Traditionally, hydrophones in the Orcasound network have been placed in the Salish Sea, but as the network scales they could be placed anywhere in the world, most likely focused in the Southern Resident Killer Whale habitat zone between Monterey Bay California to southern Alaska.

Traditionally, Orcasite has gone through a waterfall development process, with versioning defining updates. Version 3 was the first time an interactive map interface was implemented. Moving forward from this version, we will be taking an Agile framework approach to updates, iterating features rather than an overall redesign.

If you would like to volunteer on the Orcasite team, please post a message in the Slack channel linked below.

Project brief: Orcasound Orcasite Project Brief

Slack channel: #ux-orcasite

Project folder: PROJECT: Orcasound Orcasite

GitHub project: UX Work- Orcasound Orcasite