Recent & Upcoming Talks

2024

Echostack: An open-source Python software toolbox that democratizes water column sonar dataand processing

Water column sonar data collected by echosounders are essential for marine ecosystem research, allowing the detection, classifi cation, …

Variability and influence of fisheries acoustic echogram annotations on machine learning applications

High-frequency echosounders are the workhorse in fisheries and marine ecological surveys. Due to the inherent complexity of biological …

Two Pieces of the Same Puzzle: Active and Passive Acoustics for Cross-Trophic Marine Ecosystem Monitoring Part II

In this presentation, I will discuss fundamental concepts of using active acoustic techniques as a remote sensing tool to observe …

Scalable and configurable echosounder data workflows

Acoustic fisheries surveys and ocean observing systems collect terabytes of echosounder data that require custom processing pipelines …

A ship-to-cloud machine learning pipeline built on the open-source Python Echostack software tools

Successful application of machine learning (ML) methodology requires iterative development and testing of not only the models but also …

2023

Investigation of duty cycles in passive acoustic bat monitoring

Investigation of duty cycles in passive acoustic bat monitoring

2022

Understanding echoes

Keynote Lecture at the 2022 Denver Acoustical Society of America meeting.

Updates from Echopype developers: changes and roadmap

This presentation was also given at the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) Water Column Sonar Data Archive 2022 Workshop on March 29, 2022.