Outreach

Working together with researchers from Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) at the Maurice Lamontagne Institute in Québec, the MERIDIAN data analytics team has trained a deep neural network to detect the characteristic upcall produced by North Atlantic right whales. The performance of the neural network, measured in terms of its Read more…

This week, MERIDIAN is saying farewell to Senior Data Manager, Dr. Ines Hessler, who has accepted a new position as Chief Technology Officer at ACENET, the east coast Compute Canada node. Ines was instrumental in getting MERIDIAN off the ground 2.5 years ago and shaping the project into what it Read more…

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, MERIDIAN’s Data Analytics team is releasing a new ocean acoustics software package. Named Kadlu after the Inuit goddess that creates thundery weather, the package provides tools to accurately model ambient noise levels in the ocean. The first version of Kadlu includes methods for Read more…

The full report of the MERIDIAN-ONC workshop “Detection and Classification in Marine Bioacoustics with Deep Learning” held in November 2019 in Victoria, BC, has been finalized and can be found at https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.08249. We hope the report will serve both as a comprehensive summary of the discussions that took place at 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…