🚨New paper! Can #AI speed up #MarineMonitoring? Using 2,500+ benthic images from the Aegean, we found #CoralNet automated annotations matched expert assessments 87% of the time—promising scalable, cost-effective reef monitoring 🌊🤖
#MarineEcology @nemo-tools.bsky.social
www.mdpi.com/2077-1312/13...
This work came on the back of an expedition that took place 3 yrs ago, where we surveyed shallow and deep reefs in Central & Southern Maldives.
It was a huge collaborative undertaking led by Maldives Marine Research Institute, Nekton & partners across the globe
@ox.ac.uk @morethanadodo.bsky.social
Great to see this work being out in the wild!
We found that deeper habitats are more vulnerable to disturbance and support functionally unique and threatened fish and, thus, should be a conservation priority.
The study is freely available here: doi.org/10.1111/cobi...
Image credit: Nekton
The Asha Devos et al. paper that many of us have been looking forward to:
"Towards Equity and Justice in Ocean Sciences"
#OpenAccess www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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