$1 To Help Kelp Forests

Attention all kelp forests and acoustic lovers!

We need your help! We need your $1 vote to help push the Kelp Sound project forward in the Kelp Challenge Grant competition, and raise more funds toward the development of a new method to estimate the density of kelp forests using underwater sound.

Your $1 vote could help us double the amount we have raised so far overnight!

 Click Here & Donate $1  

As part of this project, we are also proposing to develop a low-cost underwater passive acoustic recorder based on a Raspberry Pi computer. The design of the acoustic recorder will be open source and available to all on GitHub. 

Help us get to 80% of the vote!

The deadline for vote is: May 20th @ 5 pm PST

After the vote is counted you can still support the project until the project closes on May, 22nd @ 11:59pm PST. Thank you to those who have already contributed to this project! Your donation, regardless of the amount, will be counted as a single vote.

Please share this widely with your networks to help make the Kelp Sound project a reality!

Camille and Jack

P.S. How does the Kelp Challenge Grant competition work?

The Challenge Grant prize of $5,000 will be distributed to all participating and eligible projects in proportion to the number of backers accumulated by May 20th (at 5pm PST). To further clarify: on May 20th, projects will receive as an extra bonus a share of the $5,000 prize according to the number of project backers compared to the total number of backers in the competition. For example, suppose Project A has 40 backers, and a total of 500 backers chose to donate across all the projects (including Project A). Project A would then receive a share 40/500 of the $5,000 prize = 0.08*5,000 = $400.