News

[05/19/2023] Aditya presented his ongoing research on the effects of subsampling for passive acoustic monitoring of bats at UW’s 26th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium.

[12/16/2022] Aditya has been awarded the Mary Gates Research Scholarship for his research on passive acoustic monitoring of bats in the Union Bay Natural Area!

[08/15/2022] Many of us in Echospace and alumnus Derya are hosting the OceanHackWeek 2022 Northwest satellite this week!

[07/01/2022] We welcome Dr. YeonJoon Cheong to join Echospace as a postdoc scholar!

[05/27/2022] We have released a new, major version of echopype, 0.6.0. There are significant breaking changes, but also significant improvements in convention adherence, consistency across sensors, and dataset documentation.

[05/23/2022] Wu-Jung will be giving the keynote lecture on “Understanding Echoes” in the ASA Denver meeting.

[05/20/2022] Aditya gave a talk on using machine learning to monitor bats in UW’s 25th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium.

[04/27/2022] Wu-Jung and Emilio gave two talks on echopype updates and roadmap in the 2022 WGFAST meeting and the 2022 NOAA NCEI Water Column Sonar Data Archive workshop.

[04/25/2022] Valentina gave a talk on analyzing OOI echosounder data using matrix decomposition in the 2022 WGFAST meeting.

[11/30/2021] New paper “Beluga whale (Delphinapterus leucas) acoustic foraging behavior and applications for long term monitoring” was published in PLOS One!

[10/30/2021] New preprint “Echopype: A Python library for interoperable and scalable processing of water column sonar data for biological information” was posted on arXiv!

[10/28/2021] Emilio and Wu-Jung gave the IOOS DMAC webinar on “Scalable, interoperable processing of water column sonar data for biological applications using the echopype Python package”.

[10/05/2021] Wu-Jung gave the UW Data Science Seminar on “Building a toolbox for studying marine ecology using large ocean sonar datasets”.

[09/21/2021] Wu-Jung and Linda successfully completed this summer’s fieldwork evaluating the use of an ADCP-equipped glider as a biological monitoring tool. Check out NOAA Exploration’s coverage of this mission!