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Optimisation of passive acoustic bird surveys: a global assessment of BirdNET settings

Preprint / Working Paper
Pérez-Granados, C., Funosas, D., Morant, J., Marín, O. H., Mendoza, I., Mohedano-Muñoz, M. A., Santamaría, E., Bastianelli, G., Márquez-Rodríguez, A., Budka, M., Bota, G., Peña-Rubio, J. M. D. L., Morena, E. G. D. L., Snata-Cruz, M., Nava, P. D. L., Fernández-Tizón, M., Sánchez.Mateos, H., Barrero, A., Traba, J., Osiejuk, T. S., …Sebsatián-González, E. Optimisation of passive acoustic bird surveys: a global assessment of BirdNET settings

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Pérez-Granados, C., Funosas, D., Morant, J., Marín, O. H., Mendoza, I., Mohedano-Muñoz, M. A., Santamaría, E., Bastianelli, G., Márquez-Rodríguez, A., Budka, M., Bota, G., Peña-Rubio, J. M. D. L., Morena, E. G. D. L., Snata-Cruz, M., Nava, P. D. L., Fernández-Tizón, M., Sánchez.Mateos, H., Barrero, A., Traba, J., Osiejuk, T. S., …Sebsatián-González, E. Optimisation of passive acoustic bird surveys: a global assessment of BirdNET settings
BirdNET is a popular machine learning tool for automated recognition of bird sounds. Here we evaluate how BirdNET settings affect the model performance both at vocalization an...

The Freshwater Sounds Archive

Preprint / Working Paper
Greenhalgh, J. A., Akmentins, M., Boullhesen, M., Brejao, G. L., Bowman, J. C., Briers, R. A., Campbell, K., Clark, A., Coen, M., Desjonqueres, C., Gaston, S., Gottesman, B. L., Jones, I. T., Lahoz-Monfort, J. J., Lindsay, E., Rodriguez, F. M., Navarrete-Mier, F., Norton, M., Las Casas e Novaes, M. C., Okazaki, S., …Looby, A. (2025)
The Freshwater Sounds Archive
Freshwater ecosystems are full of underwater sounds produced by amphibians, aquatic arthropods, reptiles, plants, fishes, and methane bubbles escaping from the sediment. Altho...

A Summer Sunday Evening

Digital Artefact
Stutterheim, K. A Summer Sunday Evening. [Film]

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Stutterheim, K. A Summer Sunday Evening. [Film]
An experimental Short Documentary After a busy summer weekend at one of southern England’s most beautiful beaches, people gather for BBQs, dip their feet in the sea, snap pho...

Scottish Mountain Soundscapes

Presentation / Conference
Di Donato, B., & McGregor, I. (2024, June)
Scottish Mountain Soundscapes. Presented at Invited seminar at UniMont, University of Milan, Edolo, Italy
Mountain environments provide an immersive auditory experience shaped by natural forces and human interactions. This seminar presents results from an ongoing project that delv...
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Sustainable wild seaweed

2025 - 2025
Investigating the options for the use of seaweed as an alternative source for nanocellulose production for the medical industry.
Funder: Innovate UK | Value: £26,020

SIORC report

2025 - 2025
The core aim is to provide a detailed inventory of elasmobranch species in Scottish waters with a particular focus on Priority Marine Features (PMFs), alongside a thorough review of their ecology, bio...
Funder: NatureScot | Value: £20,001

West of Scotland Herring Hunt (WOSHH ) 2025

2024 - 2025
WOSHH 2025 is an addition to the West of West of Scotland Herring Hunt project to allow for spring 2025 e-DNA fieldwork and data analysis. Read more on the Scottishherring.org webpage .
Funder: William Grant Foundation | Value: £27,000

MeCCSA 2025 Conference: Identity and Belonging

2024 - 2025
Media and culture play a crucial role in shaping identity, especially in contemporary contexts marked by economic struggles, conflict, and migration. The significance of identity is heightened as indi...
Funder: Fees (CPD courses and Conference Delegate)

Tiree Tope

2024 - 2025
To install acoustic receivers off the Isle of Tiree to detect tope
Funder: NatureScot | Value: £15,568

Exploring the Relationship between Habitat Biodiversity and Donkey Welfare: A Case Study in Scotland and the North of England

2024 - 2024
The application was written by Edinburgh Napier 4th year student Skye Kenny, in collaboration with Dr Gavin Ballantyne and partners at the University of the West of England and The Donkey Sanctuary. ...
Funder: Animal Welfare Foundation | Value: £2,743

Autonomous Quadrupedal Robots: Adaptable To The Unpredictable.

2024 - 2024
In controlled settings such as factories, robots are able to achieve many tasks efficiently and accurately. However, it is still a challenge to design robots that operate in unstructured, dynamic and ...
Funder: Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland | Value: £14,951

New funding for biodiversity conservation

2024 - 2025
The project will result in a sustainable finance stream for the community for the protection and restoration of coastal ecosystems through a certified credit-generating framework that is highly replic...
Value: £16,746

Fishy Tales

2023 - 2024
Fishy Tales is an outdoor theatre and marine species identification event intended to engage public audiences with local marine ecology and the West of Scotland Herring Hunt (WOSHH) research project. ...
Funder: Natural Environment Research Council

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