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…
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…
