Season’s greetings to our partners and users! To help ring in the new year, MERIDIAN is pleased to announce the release of a new publication, FishSounds version 1.0: a website for the compilation of fish sound production information and recordings. The article in Ecological Informatics describes the design and significance Read more
Author: Amalis Riera – Acoustic Data Analyst On Monday August 9, 2021, MERIDIAN team member Amalis Riera was invited to participate in Indigenous land-based learning and community engagement on the Tl’ches Islands as part of the Living Lab Project. Tl’ches (Lekwungen name), also known as Chatham and Discovery Islands, are Read more
On behalf of the MERIDIAN, Dr. Oliver Kirsebom was honoured with an invite to the upcoming CAN BON workshop, which is being organised by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO), Parks Canada (PC), and the Canadian Space Read more
Author: Oliver Kirsebom – Lead Acoustic Data Analyst On 21-22 November 2019, thirty researchers gathered in Victoria, BC for a workshop on Detection and Classification in Marine Bioacoustics with Deep Learning that has been organized by MERIDIAN and hosted by Ocean Networks Canada. The workshop was attended by about 30 Read more
Author: Oliver Kirsebom – Lead Acoustic Data Analyst Christmas came early this year for MERIDIAN’s data analytics team at Dalhousie University. After successfully competing in NVIDIA’s Accelerated Data Science Call for Proposals, the team last week received a refurbished Titan V graphical processing unit (GPU), which will support their Read more
Author: Oliver Kirsebom – Lead Acoustic Data Analyst Held every three years, Effects of Noise on Aquatic Life is a major international conference that brings together a wide spectrum of specialists from different sectors (university, industry, government, NGO), all sharing an interest in marine animals and a concern for Read more
Author: Ines Hessler – Senior Data Manager MERIDIAN is operating at the crossroad of research, research support and information management why collaborating with and supporting key players from the different sectors is important to us. As of April 2019 the MERIDIAN Data Management team is contributing to two working Read more
Paving the way for deep-learning based sound detectors and classifiers Author: Fabio Frazao and Oliver Kirsebom – MERIDIAN Data Analytics MERIDIAN’s data analytics team is excited to announce the first release of a software package for acoustic data analysis with neural networks. The package, named Ketos after the Ancient Read more
An application that enables human analysts and artificial neural networks to work together on the task of analyzing large marine acoustic data sets… Author: Oliver Kirsebom – Lead Acoustic Data Analyst Self Driving by xkcd.com Passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) is a highly effective and cost-efficient method widely used in Read more
Author: Ines Hessler – Senior Data Manager The Fisheries and Oceans Canada Ocean and Freshwater Science Contribution Program (OFSCP) is an initiative that supports scientific research and science-related activities that align with the departmental interest areas such as fisheries, aquatic ecosystems and marine navigation. In September 2018, our proposed Read more
