A place where everyone shares your joy and frustration with scientific data analysis in Python and R PyBaR is an informal co-working group organized by MERIDIAN, which provides students and researchers at Dal with a space to discuss data analysis problems and computational challenges related to their research. PyBaR focuses Read more…
On August 16 and 17, 2018, our first MERIDIAN workshop entitled “The Canadian Ocean Soundscape: Models, Tools and Integration Points” took place at the Atlantica Hotel in Halifax, Nova Scotia. It brought together members of the geographically disperse MERIDIAN team and various representatives of the Canadian ocean acoustics community. The Read more…
Image Credit: Seeing Standards: A Visualization of the Metadata Universe by Jenn Riley Author: Kim Mortimer – Data Management Expert It’s in ISO’s name: “International Organization for Standardization”. But when you look up some of their standards (for example, ISO 19115, which is what I’m most interested in), you Read more…
Author: Ines Hessler – Senior Data Manager MERIDIAN (Marine Environmental Research Infrastructure for Data Integration and Application Network) successfully launched in November 2017. MERIDIAN is a Canada Foundation for Innovation funded multi-institutional and multi-disciplinary consortium of ocean researchers, computer and data management professionals. Our team members are based at Read more…
24 September 2021 – Sustainable Ocean Conference – Dalhousie University Machine Learning in Marine Bioacoustics – Bruno PadoveseView Poster 24 August 2021 – Advances in Marine Data Science Session – SFU’s Big Data Hub The Ketos Package – Fabio FrazaoView Presentation Acoustic Detection and Classification of Killer Whales with Deep Neural Read more…
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Passive acoustic monitoring has become an important tool in fisheries and ecological studies and we know very little about fish sounds, particularly in the Pacific Ocean. There are less than 1000 species of fish that have been documented to produce sound, compared to the 30,000 fish species that exist in Read more…
MERIDIAN is working with JASCO to design a tool for visualizing underwater acoustic data with a directional component that indicates bearing for use by biologists and other researchers. This system will visualize data collected from hydrophone arrays that are capable of discerning the bearing of sound sources, which can help Read more…
Underwater acoustic data is important for understanding the oceans and how sound affects the marine environment. To record underwater sounds produced by, for instance, marine mammals, waves, and ships, and to capture the complexity and interactions of the marine soundscape, hydrophones and other acoustic recording devices are used. These devices Read more…
Many marine species have evolved to rely primarily on sound for underwater navigation, prey detection, and communication. Marine biologists and other ocean researchers listen to the sounds generated by marine animals, for example, to detect the presence of an endangered species or to study social behavior. In recent years, increasing Read more…
