Dear Colleagues, Please find below an announcement of our new SM2M passive underwater acoustic recorder. We believe this product brings unparalleled ease of use, features and value to the marine passive recorder market. If you would like to learn more about the SM2M or any of our terrestrial recording products, please visit www.wildlifeacoustics.com or call +1 (978) 369-5225. Kind regards, Sherwood Snyder, Product Manager Wildlife Acoustics, Inc. http://www.wildlifeacoustics.com office: (978) 369-5225 ext. 502 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wildlife Acoustics Announces the Song Meter SM2M Marine Recorder VICTORIA, British Columbia, Canada, May 15, 2011 -- (2nd International Marine Conservation Congress) -- Wildlife Acoustics, the leading supplier of acoustic monitoring systems for endangered and threatened wildlife species around the world, announces a new submersible digital recorder. The Song Meter SM2M Marine Recorder is built around the proven SM2 Terrestrial Recorder Platform, the SM2M is a submersible 16-bit digital recorder designed for short or long term deployments in fresh or salt water to depths of up to 150m. Like the terrestrial SM2 package, the SM2M features flexible scheduling, extremely low power consumption, pristine digital recording quality and ease of use in a very cost effective package. The housing is compact and lightweight, measuring 16.5 centimeters in diameter and 79.4 centimeters long. With no batteries, the recorder weighs 9.5 kilograms in air with 5.5 kilograms of buoyancy and, fully populated with batteries, weighs 13.5 kilograms in air with 1.5 kilograms of buoyancy. The recorder is powered by up to 32 LSD NiMH, alkaline or lithium manganese D cell batteries with continuous recording times up to 760 hours (31 days), 1,330 hours (55 days) and 1,900 hours (79 days) respectively. Longer recording times can be achieved using a scheduled recording. The SM2M uses a negligible amount of power while waiting for a scheduled recording allowing extremely long deployment times for duty cycled recordings. Sample rates are available from 4kHz to 96kHz. The user can easily change the sample rate in the schedule program to allow monitoring at different sample rates during one deployment. The integrated hydrophone has a recording bandwidth of 2Hz - 40kHz with a flat (+/- 1dB) response. Maximum storage capacity is 128GB using four 32GB SDHC cards with planned support of SDXC protocol, allowing even greater capacity. Lossless compression is available to nearly double the maximum recording length. Intelligent triggers are programmable to further decrease card consumption. The housing design allows quick refurbishment of the device shipside allowing immediate redeployment. The device can be anchored and recovered via tether, diver or optional acoustic release. The Song Meter SM2M Marine Recorder will be July/August 2011 starting at US$4,999. Pre-orders can be made via our online ordering system or by calling +1 (978) 369-5225.