Tale of Two SpeciesIndian Ocean humpback dolphin. Image by Abhishek Jamalabad. I’m visiting the Cornell Bioacoustics Research Program (BRP) to learn more about all things acoustics that applies to marine mammal research. Before diving too deep, let me first start by telling you…
- Smoking Hot Data Pipes
Some of the data-flow plumbing in the BRP ecosystem. One of the biggest challenges that the Bioacoustics Research Program faces is moving the huge amounts of data that we collect through our processing pipeline. The sidebar lists some of the…
- Scholarships support international training in bioacoustics
Twice a year, BRP offers an intensive five-day introductory Sound Analysis Workshop here at the Lab of Ornithology in Ithaca. The aim of the workshop is to train scientists, especially those new to bioacoustics, how to use modern bioacoustic principles…
- Rumbles in the Jungle: Daniela Hedwig writes from the remote rainforest in central Africa…
https://vimeo.com/216169820 Forest elephants of Dzanga Bai. A distant roar echoes through the dim rainforest as I scramble along an ancient elephant path meandering through the understory. Ahead was the reason I swapped my comfortable office at the Cornell Lab of…
- Studying a cryptic marine mammal species by eDNA
The R/V Reuben Lasker in port at Ford Island, Honolulu In the words of The Who, I am reminded of a catchy tune: “Who are you? Who, who, who, who?” As we search for the identity of a mysterious beaked…
