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PAMGuard version 2.02.18 is now available for Windows, macOS, and Linux.

To download or see a list of new features visit www.pamguard.org

Registration for the one day "Introduction to PAMGuard" training workshop on 20 April is now live on the ECS website at www.europeancetaceansociety.eu/conference-2...

Evaluating the Risk of Collision of Seals Swimming Within Metres of Operating Tidal Turbines We used imaging sonar to continuously monitor wildlife at an operational tidal turbine in the Pentland Firth, Scotland, between May 2022 and June 2023. Of 704 detected seal tracks, 347 occurred durin...

New Publication:

Evaluating the Risk of Collision of Seals Swimming Within Metres of Operating Tidal Turbines

Jessica Montabaranom, Douglas Gillespie, Carol Sparling, Emma Longden, Gordon Hastie

Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 36, no. 2: e70326. doi.org/10.1002/aqc.....

PAMGuard: Application software for passive acoustic detection, classification, and localisation of animal sounds Detection, classification, and localisation of animal sounds are essential in many ecological studies, including density estimation and behavioural studies. Rea

New publication: PAMGuard: Application software for passive acoustic detection, classification, and localisation of animal sounds.
doi.org/10.1121/10.0...

Got a great idea for new acoustic detectors that could form the basis of a PhD ?
www.st-andrews.ac.uk/study/fees-a...

We’re pleased to announce the availability of PyPAMGuard: a Python library to read PAMGuard binary files.

Find out more at www.pamguard.org/news/250716_...

PAMGuard Version 2.02.17 is now available for Windows and Mac

For details of cool new features and bug fixes see www.pamguard.org/news/250605_...

Caller ID: Pygmy Beaked Whale Mesoplodon peruvianus Confirmed as the Source of “BW70” Acoustic Signal in the Eastern Pacific Click on the article title to read more.

Barlow et al, used PAMGuard to help identify clicks from the elusive Pygme Beaked Whale. Read about it in Marine Mammal Science (and no, that picture is NOT Pygme Beaked Whales):
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

This weeks PAMGuard paper is a study of small cetaceans in the New York / New Jersey harbour Estuary: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Another article using PAMGuard, this time to study finless porpoise around Korea.
This is also a reminder of how lucky many of us are to be working mostly in our mother tongue!
koreascience.kr/article/JAKO...

Join us for the the second edition of Sonic Connexions on May 5th, 2025 !

Register here:
whoi-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

#bioacoustics 🧪

This week, we're working with Prof. Marie Roch from SDSU to deliver a course on the latest PAMGuard features at @whoi.edu. All course materials are being made available at www.pamguard.org/tutorials.html

Please send acoustic recordings so that we can develop a detector for this rare species.

The PAMGuard team are delighted to announce the release of a detector for the Scottish Wild Haggis (Haggis Scoticus). This is available as a plugin module, which can be downloaded at www.pamguard.org/plugins/plug...

Next year we hope to release an AI classifier for the megafauna of Loch Ness

Check out our new tutorial for the Batch Processing module in PAMGuard at www.pamguard.org/tutorials.html.

The batch processor allows you to run the same PAMGuard configuration on multiple datasets, which is great for dealing with data from multiple autonomous recorders.

PAMGuard Version 2.02.16 is now available for download. Updates include improvements to the Tethys database interface and the Deep Learning Classifier as well as several small bug fixes.

Also available is an updated Batch Processing plugin and tutorial updates. Visit www.pamguard.org for details.

We've had a great week teaching the latest PAMGuard features to folks in the US, but the week was marred by one of our attendees being fired half way through. Our hearts go out to her and other US Gov’t scientists losing their jobs this week, and we wish them success in finding new paths in life.

Postdoc in biologging and bioacoustics - Vacancy at Aarhus University Vacancy at Department of Ecoscience - Marine Mammal Research 2, Aarhus University

We have a postdoc position open in our Acoustic Ecology Lab at Aarhus University, Denmark. If you have a background in acoustics or biologging and could be interested in working with us, please get in touch.
international.au.dk/about/profil...

Another paper using PAMGuard, this one from a former @uniofstandrews.bsky.social @seamammalresearch.bsky.social Masters student.

@jamie-mac.bsky.social updated the home page of our website www.pamguard.org. Say if you like it!

Seals avoid an operating tidal turbine Authors of a recently published study discuss how their research discovered that seals exhibit avoidance of turbines during operation. This finding is important for industry developers and regulato…

See our blogpost on tracking seals around a tidal turbine using the new multibeam sonar processing modules in PAMGuard: appliedecologistsblog.com/2025/02/06/s...

PAMGuard batch processor display of offline tasks

This week, I've been working on upgrades to the Batch Processing plugin module, which will allow you to rerun tasks such as click classification on multiple datasets. Available soon at www.pamguard.org.

Has Bluesky replaced X for scientists? Take Nature’s poll The research community has flocked to the social-media platform Bluesky. Tell us about your experience.

@nature.com is keen to find out how scientists are using @bsky.app and whether it has become their go-to social-media platform. Do you use Bluesky? Has it replaced Xitter? We want to hear from you.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

#eXit

Another paper using PAMGuard. For this one we developed a bespoke PAMGuard module to process multibeam sonar data in order to track seals around an operating tidal turbine. All code and built modules at www.pamguard.org. @jessmontabaranom.bsky.social @seamammalresearch.bsky.social

Can you add @pamguard.org

And we've just passed 100 downloads of the latest release. Glad to see folks were busy over the festive period.

Another paper using PAMGuard. Happy new year from St Andrews.

Need a festive season read in front of the fire?

We hope this paper published today In Marine Mammal Science will be of interest. We demonstrate the application of PAM and signature whistles to estimate abundance of bottlenose dolphins with comparable results to Photo-ID.
doi.org/10.1111/mms....

100% emotionless and objective thinking Tiago. Well done.

The Mac version of PAMGuard V2.02.15 is now available at www.pamguard.org