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16/12/2022

As we seek solutions to our climate crisis, we have a lot to learn from the wisdom of Nature.

16/12/2022

Restoring the population of whales — which are still being killed in high numbers — could help reduce carbon in the Earth’s atmosphere, according to a new study.

In 2020, the CETI scientific team organized a workshop on Decoding Communication in Nonhuman Species at the Simons Insti...
16/12/2022

In 2020, the CETI scientific team organized a workshop on Decoding Communication in Nonhuman Species at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, UC Berkeley, where experts studying non-human communication across a variety of species shared their research. CETI head of machine learning Michael Bronstein (Imperial College London) presented Project CETI Next Steps: Industrial-Scale Whale Bioacoustic Data Collection and Analysis.

CETI was developed after collaborators convened at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study in April 2019 for an Exploratory Seminar called Novel Ways to Non-invasively Visualize/Characterize/ Decipher the Sonic Communication of Marine Mammals. Several of CETI founding members were Radcliffe Fellows in 2017-2018 and the idea of applying advanced machine learning toward whale communication was sparked during a Machine Learning seminar organized by Shafi Goldwasser.

bis was a popular humpback whale that would often visit the Maine and Cape Cod areas of North America in the late 1970s ...
10/12/2022

bis was a popular humpback whale that would often visit the Maine and Cape Cod areas of North America in the late 1970s and 1980s. Humpback whales in the North Atlantic typically migrate between the Bahamas and anywhere from Newfoundland to Greenland or even as far as Norway. Scientists were able to identify Ibis by her individual flukes, which have markings that are equivalent to fingerprints in humans. Migratory routes are recorded by sightings of whales based on this principle.Ibis was a favorite of whale enthusiasts, and scientists had been tracking her since 1979. Then, in 1984, near-tragedy struck. In early October, Ibis was spotted entangled in a huge fishing net used to catch cod and haddock. For nearly two months, Ibis struggled with the fishing net, slowly losing strength. At one point, it was feared that she had drowned, since she seemed to be struggling to reach the surface of the ocean as time progressed.Finally, around Thanksgiving, Ibis was spotted with another humpback that appeared to be trying to assist her. Rescuers were finally able to get close to Ibis, tying floats to the tangled netting to keep her from diving so they could finally cut the netting off.The freeing of Ibis marked the first recorded rescue of a free-swimming whale, and the volunteer group that accomplished the feat would go on to become the Marine Animal Entanglement Response (MAER) team, which has since saved over 200 whales and other cetaceans in similar manners.

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