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pamguard @pamguard.org · Jul 16

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_...

Python Binary File Reader – PAMGuard

PyPAMGuard: library to read PAMGuard binary files

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pamguard @pamguard.org · Jun 6

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_...

Version 2.02.17 Bug blitz! – PAMGuard

PAMGuard version 2.02.17 is now available for Windows and Mac

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pamguard @pamguard.org · May 1

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....

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.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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pamguard @pamguard.org · Apr 28

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

New York Timeshare: Staggered Habitat Use of Small Cetaceans in the New York–New Jersey Harbour Estuary

Sympatric species that occupy similar niches use a variety of strategies to minimise competitive exclusion. Bottlenose dolphins and harbour porpoises are both small cetaceans that occur in coastal ar...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

pamguard @pamguard.org · Apr 18

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...

koreascience.kr

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Xavier Mouy @xaviermouy.bsky.social · Apr 14

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

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

#bioacoustics 🧪

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pamguard @pamguard.org · Apr 9

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

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pamguard @pamguard.org · Apr 1

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

pamguard @pamguard.org · Apr 1

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

Plugin Downloads – PAMGuard

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pamguard @pamguard.org · Mar 21

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 Tutorials – PAMGuard

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pamguard @pamguard.org · Mar 20

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.

PAMGuard

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pamguard @pamguard.org · Mar 1

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.

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Frants Jensen @frantsjensen.bsky.social · Feb 17

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...

Postdoc in biologging and bioacoustics - Vacancy at Aarhus University

Vacancy at Department of Ecoscience - Marine Mammal Research 2, Aarhus University

international.au.dk

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pamguard @pamguard.org · Feb 13

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

Peter Corkeron @petercorkeron.bsky.social · Feb 13

A new paper:
Habitat utilization by beaked whales in the western North Atlantic Ocean using passive acoustics

Different ecological communities of beaked whales determined by combining 2 different passive acoustics techniques

In @meps-ir.bsky.social now
www.int-res.com/articles/mep...
🐳🌍🦑

A figure making one of the main points of the paper -
From the figure caption
Fig. 4. Classification tree of the proportion of beaked whale species detection events from the towed hydrophone arrays with covariates bathymetry (Bathy), sea surface temperature (SST), salinity, and chlorophyll. Each node is labeled at the top left of each bar followed by the total number of beaked whale events (N) in that node. Beaked whale species are represented by colors

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pamguard @pamguard.org · Feb 7

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

PAMGuard

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pamguard @pamguard.org · Feb 6

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...

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…

appliedecologistsblog.com

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pamguard @pamguard.org · Jan 16

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.

PAMGuard batch processor display of offline tasks

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Corey Bradshaw @conservbytes.bsky.social · Jan 15

@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

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.

www.nature.com

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pamguard @pamguard.org · Jan 8

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

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pamguard @pamguard.org · Jan 4

Can you add @pamguard.org

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pamguard @pamguard.org · Jan 2

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

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pamguard @pamguard.org · Jan 2

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

Laia Garrobé @garrobe.bsky.social · Jan 2

New paper: Comparing neural networks against click train detectors to reveal temporal trends in passive acoustic sperm whale detections (DM [email protected] for a copy) 🧵 pubs.aip.org/asa/jasa/art...

@pamguard.org @lrendell.bsky.social @seamammalresearch.bsky.social

Comparing neural networks against click train detectors to reveal temporal trends in passive acoustic sperm whale detections

Passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) is an increasingly popular tool to study vocalising species. The amount of data generated by PAM studies calls for robust auto

pubs.aip.org

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Per Berggren @perberggren.bsky.social · Dec 20

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....

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pamguard @pamguard.org · Dec 19

100% emotionless and objective thinking Tiago. Well done.

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pamguard @pamguard.org · Dec 16

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

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