Outputs

Here we provide a comprehensive list of all ACCURATE related outputs.

Note some of these outputs are extras in the sense that they might have not been associated with specific tasks or named objectives under ACCURATE, but resulted from the involvement of ACCURATE researchers, and cover the general topic of cue rate estimation, and are hence captured under the umbrella of one or more tasks under ACCURATE.

Published Papers

  • Zeh, J., Perez-Marrufo, V., Adcock, D., Jensen, F., Knapp, K., Robbins, J., Tackaberry, J., Weinrich, M., Friedlaender, A., Wiley, D., Parks, S. (2024). Caller identification and characterization of individual humpback whale acoustic behaviour. Royal Society Open Science 11: 231608 DOI: 10.1098/rsos.231608
  • Zeh, J., Adcock, D., Perez-Marrufo, V., Cusano, D., Robbins, J., Tackaberry, J., Jensen, F., Weinrich, M., Friedlaender, A., Wiley, D., Parks, S. (2024). Acoustic behavior of humpback whale calves on the feeding ground: Comparisons across age and implications for vocal development. PLOS ONE 19: e0303741 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0303741
  • Barkley, Y., Merkens, K., Wood, M., Oleson, E., Marques, T. A. (2024). Click detection rate variability of central North Pacific sperm whales from passive acoustic towed arrays. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 155: 2627–2635 DOI: 10.1121/10.0025540
  • Helsdingen, A., Marques, T. A., Jones-Todd, C. (2024). An Inhomogeneous Weibull–Hawkes Process to Model Underdispersed Acoustic Cues. Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics. DOI: 10.1007/s13253-024-00626-w
  • Marques, C. S., Marques, D. A., Blackwell, S. B., Heide-Jørgensen, M. P., Malinka, C. E., Marques, T. A. (2024) Narwhal (Monodon monoceros) echolocation click rates to support cue counting passive acoustic density estimation. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 155: 891–900 DOI: 10.1121/10.0024723
  • Posdaljian, N., Solsona-Berga, A., Hildebrand, J., Soderstjerna, C., Wiggins, S., Lenssen, K., Baumann-Pickering, S. (2024). Sperm Whales Demographics in the Gulf of Alaska and Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands: An Overlooked Female Habitat. PLoS One 19: e0285068 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0285068
  • Romagosa, M., Nieukirk, S., Cascão, I., Marques, T.A., Dziak, R., Royer, J.Y., O’Brien, J., Mellinger, D. K., Pereira, A., Ugalde, A., Papale, E., Aniceto, S., Buscaino, G., Rasmussen, M., Matias, L., Prieto, R., Silva, M. A. (2024) Fin whale song evolution in the North Atlantic. Elife 13: e83750 DOI: 10.7554/eLife.83750
Three fin whales off Pico Island. Photo kindly provided by Rui Prieto (IMAR). For more about fantastic ongoing work from Rui and other colleagues at the Azores Whale Lab visit their web page here.
  • Macaulay, J. D. J., Rojano-Doñate, L., Ladegaard, M., Tougaard, J., Teilmann, J., Marques, T. A., Siebert, U., Madsen, P. T. (2023) Implications of porpoise echolocation and dive behaviour on passive acoustic monitoring. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 154: 1982–1995 DOI: 10.1121/10.0021163
  • Marques, T. A., Marques, C. S., Gkikopoulou, K. C. (2023) A sperm whale cautionary tale about estimating acoustic cue rates for deep divers. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 154: 1577–1584 DOI: 10.1121/10.0020910

Sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) off the Azores. Photo kindly provided by Guilherme Estrela (AIMM Portugal).

  • Baumann-Pickering, S., Trickey, J., Solsona Berga, A., Rice, ., Oleson, E., Hildebrand, J., Frasier, K. (2023). Geographic differences in Blainville’s beaked whale ( Mesoplodon densirostris ) echolocation clicks. Diversity and Distributions 29: 478–491 DOI: 10.1111/ddi.13673
Blainville’s beaked whale (Mesoplodon densirostris) surfacing around the Gorringe seamount. Photo kindly provided by AIMM Portugal.

  • Buckland, S., Borchers, D., Marques, T. A., Fewster, R.. (2023). Wildlife Population Assessment: Changing Priorities Driven by Technological Advances. Journal of Statistical Theory and Practice 17: 20 DOI: 10.1007/s42519-023-00319-6

  • Rycyk, A., Becham, C. & Marques, T.A. (2022). Estimating Florida manatee (Trichechus manatus latirostris) abundance using passive acoustic methods. JASA Express Letters 2: 051202 DOI: 10.1121/10.0010495
A baby manatee following his mom at Blue Springs. This image was taken as a screenshot from the underwater Blue Springs web cam (the paper is with Blue Springs data!)
  • Romagosa, M., Pérez-Jorge, S., Cascão, I., Mouriño, H., Lehodey, P., Pereira, A., Marques, T.A., Matias, L. & Silva, M.A. (2021). Food talk: 40-hz fin whale calls are associated with prey biomass. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 288: 20211156. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2021.1156
A fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus) lunging on a shoal of garfish (Belone belone) in the southern coast of mainland Portugal. Photo provided by Miguel P. Martins, taken aboard AIMM Portugal in 2024.
  • Blackwell, S.B., Thode, A.M., Conrad, A.S., Ferguson, M.C., Berchok, C.L., Stafford, K.M., Marques, T.A. & Kim, K.H. (2021). Estimating acoustic cue rates in bowhead whales, Balaena mysticetus, during their fall migration through the Alaskan Beaufort Sea. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 149: 3611–3625. DOI: 10.1121/10.0005043
Bowhead in the Barents Sea (wrong sea, right species!) © Tiago Marques 2015

Talks

The following talks were delivered at the 2024th DCLDE conference in Rotterdam

  • Macaulay, J.D.J., Rojano-Doñate, L., Ladegaard, M., Tougaard, J., Teilmann, J., Marques, T.A., Siebert, U. & Madsen, P.T. (2024). The influence of toothed whale behaviour detection probability and the implications for passive acoustic monitoring. Talk at at the 2024 Detection, Classification, Localization and Density Estimation of Marine Mammals using Passive Acoustics, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
  • Marques, T.A. (2024a). ACCURATE passive acoustic monitoring density estimation: Are we there yet? Talk at at the 2024 Detection, Classification, Localization and Density Estimation of Marine Mammals using Passive Acoustics, Rotterdam, Netherlands.

The following talk was delivered at the 5th World EcoAcoustics Congress, Madrid, Spain, within a symposium dedicated to “Density estimation using passive acoustic monitoring: lessons from multiple taxa” jointly organized by Marques:

  • Marques, T.A. (2024c). The fundamental aspects to consider when estimating density from passive acoustic monitoring data: Lessons from cetaceans. Talk at at the 5th World EcoAcoustics Congress, Madrid, Spain, within a symposium dedicated to ‘Density estimation using passive acoustic monitoring: lessons from multiple taxa’ jointly organized by Marques.

The following talk was delivered at the 9th International Statistical Ecology Conference, in Swansea, UK

  • Marques, T.A. (2024b). Lessons learnt from estimating acoustic cue production rates for places and times without data. Talk at International Statistical Ecology Conference, Swansea, UK.

The following invited talk was delivered at Cornell BioacousTalks series:

  • Marques, T.A. (2023b). Estimating animal abundance using passive acoustics with a focus on ACCURATE results. Invited talk at K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics, Cornell University, BioacousTalks.

The following talk was delivered at IV Workshop em Data Science, organized by the Departamento de Estatística da Universidadede Federal de Lavras, Brasil

  • Marques, T.A. (2023c). How to obtain ACCURATE estimates of wildlife abundance from passive acoustics data. Talk at Departamento de Estatística da Universidadede Federal de Lavras, Brasil, IVWorkshop on Data Science.

The following invited talk was delivered at the Scottish Oceans Institute in April 2023:

  • Marques, T.A. (2023a). ACCURATE news on cue rates to inform passive acoustic density estimation methods. Invited talk delivered at SOI.

The following talk was delivered at the 34th European Cetacean Society conference in April 2023:

  • Marques, T.A., Barkley, Y., Baumann-Pickering, S., Booth, C., Dombroski, J., Fialho, N., Gkikopoulou, P., Gillespie, D., Gueifão, T., Harris, D., Klementisova, K., Malinka, C., Marques, C., Marques, D., Matei, M., Merkens, K., Oleson, E., Parks, S., Posdaljian, N., Širović, A., Thomas, L., Trickey, J., Tyack, P. & Rodrigues, M. (2023a). The need for ACCURATE cue rates in passive acoustic density estimation. Talk at the 34th European Cetacean Society conference, O’Grove, Galicia, Spain.

The following talk was delivered at the 36th annual UCSD Undergraduate Research Conference in April 2023:

  • Deans, W.A., Posdaljian, N., Berga, A.S., Hildebrand, J.A., Frasier, K.E. & Baumann-Pickering, S. (2023). Describing sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) demographics in the western north Atlantic using passive acoustic data. 36th annual UCSD Undergraduate Research Conference.

The following posters were delivered at the 34th European Cetacean Society conference in April 2023:

  • Fialho, N., Gkikopoulou, P., Malinka, C., Marques, C., Madsen, P., Tonessen, P., Silva, M., Oliveira, C., Prieto, R., Gero, S., Hickmott, L., Miller, P., Johnson, M. & Marques, T.A. (2023). Estimating sperm whale availability for sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) density surveys. Poster at the 34th European Cetacean Society conference.
  • Marques, C.S., Dufourq, E., Marcoux, M. & Marques, T.A. (2023b). Creating training data sets for the automatic identification of wildlife sounds: A narwhal example. Poster at the 34th European Cetacean Society conference.

The following talks were presented at the 2022 DCLDE workshop:

  • Romagosa, M., Nieukirk, S., Cascão, I., Marques, T.A., Dziak, R., Perrot, J., O’Brien, J., Mellinger, D., Pereira, A., Ugalde, A., Papale, E., Rasmussen, M., Matias, L., Prieto, R. & Silva1, M.A. (2022). Changes in fin whale song inter-note intervals: Implications for density estimation using PAM. Talk at 9th Detection, Classification, Localization and Density Estimation of Marine Mammals using Passive Acoustics.
  • Baumann-Pickering, S., Berga, A.S., Trickey, J.S., Wiggins, S.M., Aguilar, C. & Hildebrand, J.A. (2022). Passive acoustic density estimation of Cuvier’s beaked whale in Southern California waters. Talk at 9th Detection, Classification, Localization and Density Estimation of Marine Mammals using Passive Acoustics.
  • Barkley, I., Merkens, K., Wood, M., Oleson, E. & Marques, T.A. (2022). How many clicks does it take? Investigating click rate variability for sperm whales in hawaiian waters. Talk at 9th Detection, Classification, Localization and Density Estimation of Marine Mammals using Passive Acoustics.
  • Marques, C.S., Marques, T.A., Gkikopoulou, K.C., Prieto, R., Oliveira, C., Silva, M.A. & Hickmott, L.S. (2022d). Estimating cue rates from tags without acoustic data. Talk at 9th Detection, Classification, Localization and Density Estimation of Marine Mammals using Passive Acoustics.
  • Gkikopoulou, K.C., Gillespie, D.M., Harris, D., Johnson, M., Tyack, P.L., Aguilar de Soto, N., Hickmott, L. & Marques, T.A. (2022). Stability of acoustic cues for density estimation. Talk at 9th Detection, Classification, Localization and Density Estimation of Marine Mammals using Passive Acoustics.
  • Dombroski, J., Gillespie, D., Parks, S.E., Carbaugh-Rutland, A.W. & Širović, A. (2022). Can we rely on accelerometer data to detect calls from focal whales? Talk at 9th Detection, Classification, Localization and Density Estimation of Marine Mammals using Passive Acoustics.

The following abstracts were submitted to ISEC 2022

  • Marques, T.A., Jones-Todd, C.M., Michelot, T., Marques, C.S., C., G.K., Thomas, L., Harris, D. & others. (2022c). Comparing statistical methods to estimate sound production rates based on animal borne tag data. Talk at International Statistical Ecology Conference 2022.
  • Marques, C.S., C., G.K., Thomas, L., Harris, D., Marques, T.A. & others. (2022a). Investigating the effect of variable animal-borne tag durations on parameter precision and uncertainty. Poster at International Statistical Ecology Conference 2022.

Thesis

  • Marques, D.A. (2022). Echolocation click rates in narwhals (monondon monoceros) as a conservation stepping-stone. Master’s thesis, MSc in Conservation Biology, Department of Animal Biology. Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, Portugal.
    Diana Marques was supervised by Tiago Marques (and Susanna Blackwell). Her thesis looks into narwhal sound production and has been turned into a publication (see above).
  • Gueifão, T. (2024) Automatic detection of beaked whale echolocation clicks via convolutiona neural networks MSc in Biostatistics, Department of Statistcs and Operational Research, Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, Portugal. Tomás Gueifão was supervised by Tiago Marques (and Emmanuel Dufourq). His thesis looks into machine learning methods to automatically detect beaked whale sounds in tag data, and we hope it will become a publication at some point (after ACCURATE ends).

Outreach and science communication

  • Marques, T.A., Dornellas, L.F., Guerra, A., Marques, C.S., Tempero, B., Zacarias, M. & Hart, C. (2022b). Counting animals by recording their voices. Frontiers for Young Minds, 10.
A girl listening to sounds and counting them, noting them down in a notebook.
Image taken from the publisher site. View original.

Marques et al. (2022b) is a science communication and outreach paper explaining passive acoustic density estimation to a teenager target audience. View abstract and paper.

ACCURATE (via Popi Gkikopoulou) was present at a science outreach activity at the Botanic Gardens of St Andrews: Go wild with science! Whale & Dolphin calls – what, how and how many? Read more about the activity.

ACCURATE (via Tiago A. Marques) was presented at a number of Portuguese highschools.

Science Communication outreach videos

Led by MAria Zacarias, we have been engaged in producing a series of Science Communication videos covering the fundamental aspects of passive acoustic monitoring density estimation. You can find those available below, starting from the basics of PAMD DE, followed by the ACCURATE focus of cue production rates, and (at least for now) ending with detectability matters, that is, whay it matters to think about detectability. Detectability can also be thought of as false negatives. The corresponding last piece of the puzzle refers to false positives. We hope to produce a final fourth video in this PAM DE series, covering false positives, during the year of 2023. Therefore, stay tuned! All videos are available from ACCURATE’s youtube channel here.

  • Zacarias, M. & Marques, T.A. (2022). How we estimate animal density from passive acoustic recordings: A scicomm video!
A video on how we estimate animal density from passive acoustic data
  • Zacarias, M. & Marques, T.A. (2022). Cue Rates for Passive Acoustic Density Estimation: A scicomm video!
A video on cue rates for density estimation from passive acoustic data, where we join Len, a resident biologist, in finding out how these are fundamental.
  • Zacarias, M. & Marques, T.A. (2023). Detectability matters in Passive Acoustic Density Estimation
A video on why we must care about detectability in passive acoustics density estimation, where we join Danielle, a resident biologist, in learning the importance of detectability matters!
  • Zacarias, M. & Marques, T.A. (2024). Dealing with False Positives in Passive Acoustic Monitoring Animal Density Estimation
A video explaining how false positives are important and must be acounted for when estimating animal density from passive acoustic data.

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