The Locusonus and SoundCamp project n offers excellent support for audio streaming and recording using Raspberry Pi micro controllers in the field.

The Acoustic Ecology team at ASU is using these resources as a starting point to develop realtime psychoacoustic tools for realtime sound mapping.

More system development info is available here

Interesting article in the American Psychological Associations publication about how regular exposure to the natural world can help restoring mental clarity heal the body.

We are planning to look at the benefits of taking hospitalized and elderly people into national parks virtual using EcoRift. We hypothesis that this could be a valuable aid to healing and wellbeing.

Psychologists’ research explains the mental and physical restoration we get from nature–and has important implications for how we build our homes, work environments and cities.

http://www.apa.org/monitor/apr01/greengood.aspx