ECE Seminar* Speaker: Annamaria DeAngelis, Researcher, NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center, Woods Hole, MA
When: Friday,
October 20, 2023
2:00 PM
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3:00 PM
Where: > See description for location
Cost: Free
Description: Topic: Passive Acoustic Monitoring as a Versatile Tool in Understanding Marine Mammal Distributions, Abundance, and Behavior
Speaker: Annamaria DeAngelis, Researcher, NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center, Woods Hole, MA
Location: Science & Engineering Building (SENG), Room 222
Abstract:
Passive acoustics is a rapidly growing field in part due to technological and computer science advances, but also its inherent nature to provide a holistic record of sounds occurring in the environment at a given time and location. As species-specific detectors and classifiers improve, analysts are now able to combine large datasets to gain a large picture of ocean health and ecosystem change. The bioacoustics of marine mammals have been well studied since the 1950s, and are known to produce a variety of sounds corresponding to different behaviors. Many vociferous marine mammals are listed on the Endangered Species List, and require federal protection and conservation. At the Northeast Fisheries Science Center, the Passive Acoustics Branch records sound to monitor the distribution and behavior of marine mammals. Here, I will touch upon some of the research projects our group is conducting, demonstrating the broad scale applicability of passive acoustic monitoring in detecting and classifying multiple marine mammal species in light of upcoming wind farm construction, as well as fine scale applications such as tracking deep diving marine mammals species to better understand their foraging ecology, habitat use, and abundance.
Biography:
Annamaria DeAngelis has a BS in Marine Biology from the University of Rhode Island and a MRes in Marine Mammal Science from the University of St Andrews, Scotland. She has worked as a research analyst at Cornell's Bioacoustics Research Program (now Center for Conservation Bioacoustics) and interned at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport, RI researching beaked whales, before joining the Passive Acoustics Branch of the Northeast Fisheries Science Center in 2014. She leads the team responsible for the detection, classification, and localization of various odontocete species from both bottom mounted and towed array platforms, which comprises of beaked whale, sperm whale, Kogia, harbor porpoise, and delphinid species projects.
The Seminars is open to the public free of charge.
*For further information, please contact Dr. John R. Buck via email at jbuck@umassd.edu.
Speaker: Annamaria DeAngelis, Researcher, NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center, Woods Hole, MA
Location: Science & Engineering Building (SENG), Room 222
Abstract:
Passive acoustics is a rapidly growing field in part due to technological and computer science advances, but also its inherent nature to provide a holistic record of sounds occurring in the environment at a given time and location. As species-specific detectors and classifiers improve, analysts are now able to combine large datasets to gain a large picture of ocean health and ecosystem change. The bioacoustics of marine mammals have been well studied since the 1950s, and are known to produce a variety of sounds corresponding to different behaviors. Many vociferous marine mammals are listed on the Endangered Species List, and require federal protection and conservation. At the Northeast Fisheries Science Center, the Passive Acoustics Branch records sound to monitor the distribution and behavior of marine mammals. Here, I will touch upon some of the research projects our group is conducting, demonstrating the broad scale applicability of passive acoustic monitoring in detecting and classifying multiple marine mammal species in light of upcoming wind farm construction, as well as fine scale applications such as tracking deep diving marine mammals species to better understand their foraging ecology, habitat use, and abundance.
Biography:
Annamaria DeAngelis has a BS in Marine Biology from the University of Rhode Island and a MRes in Marine Mammal Science from the University of St Andrews, Scotland. She has worked as a research analyst at Cornell's Bioacoustics Research Program (now Center for Conservation Bioacoustics) and interned at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport, RI researching beaked whales, before joining the Passive Acoustics Branch of the Northeast Fisheries Science Center in 2014. She leads the team responsible for the detection, classification, and localization of various odontocete species from both bottom mounted and towed array platforms, which comprises of beaked whale, sperm whale, Kogia, harbor porpoise, and delphinid species projects.
The Seminars is open to the public free of charge.
*For further information, please contact Dr. John R. Buck via email at jbuck@umassd.edu.
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