abmi forum bioacoustic farr 2015 feb 17 final3

It’s Our Nature to KnowAlberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute

Now I've heard everything

The acoustic revolution in

wildlife monitoring

Dan FarrErin BayneMonica KohlerShawn Morrison

It’s Our Nature to KnowAlberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute

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Dan vs Machine

Species: Good match: 80%Abundance: Good match in 3 categories (0, 1, >1)

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Dan vs Machine

Species: Good match: 80%Abundance: Good match in 3 categories (0, 1, >1)

Caveat: Unidirectional microphone

1990 2000 2010

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2007Better microphones

OmnidirectionalDigital recorders

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Audio file transcription

2007-201410,000 recordings

10 min each100,000 minutes

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2007-2014

263 species167,000 records

1077 sites across Alberta

1990 2000 2010

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www.species.abmi.ca

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Application

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SecretiveCall at nightSoggy feet

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ARU

Automated recording unitsPortableDurable

Programmable

ARU

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Automated recording units

JUST SET IT AND FORGET IT

ARU

LowerAthabasca

Edmonton

Calgary

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Erin Bayne

University of Alberta

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2013-2014

> 200 sitesup to 5 ARUs per site

10 minutes hourly5 – 100 days per site

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Audio file transcription?

2013-201410X more recordings than previous 8 yr

> 1 million minutes

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2013-201410X more recordings than previous 8 yr

> 1 million minutes

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Contact call Alarm call

Song

Spectrogram – a picture of sound

Cornell Lab of Ornithology

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Yellow Rail

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Yellow Rail

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Alberta Yellow Rail records

2013-2014

1767 sample locationsYellow Rails at 5%

2/3 manual1/3 computer-assisted

24E. Bayne, in prep.

Yellow Rail Habitat

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Key questionsPopulation size

Population trendsResponse to development

Alberta range?

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2015Lower Athabasca

Long-term monitoringCause-effect research

Basic biology

2015Alberta Boreal

70 sites4 ARUs per site

March - June

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E. Bayne, in prep.

1076 recordings10 min each

All at midnight

93 species

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30 second clip

Logan McLeodUniversity of Alberta

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Ecological recoveryof reclaimed wellsites

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ARU ArraysTriangulate to locate individuals

Scott WilsonUniversity of Alberta

± 13 m

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ARU ArraysTriangulate to locate individuals

Scott WilsonUniversity of Alberta

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Computer recognition

1990 2000 2010 2020

ARU

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Citizen science

1990 2000 2010 2020

ARU

Bioacoustic Unit

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Dan Farr

Application Director

Erin Bayne

Scientific Director

Monica Kohler

Communications

Shawn Morrison

Senior Research Associate

Hedwig Lankau

Research Coordinator

Jim Schieck

Monitoring Director

Audio Technicans

Alex Macphail

Nicole Boucher

Michelle Knaggs

Cassandra Hardy

Graduate Students

Logan McLeod

Scott Wilson

Natasha Annich

Daniel Yip

Julia Shonfield

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Sponsors

Images & mediaAlberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute

Cornell Lab of OrnithologyIntegration & Application Network,

University of MarylandRonco

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