Friends and colleagues, We are of course hoping you will be in Puerto Rico for the SMM but if not and you are interested in joining the Sunday October 18 all day workshop Evolving AI Applications in Marine Mammal Science, you can do so for free. Please fill this form for a registration link: https://forms.gle/1VzYi3aC43KY2Enu9 <https://forms.gle/1VzYi3aC43KY2Enu9>. The workshop runs 8am - 5pm Atlantic standard time (UTC-4)
Schedule: Evolving AI Applications in Modern Marine Mammal Science SMM 2026 Pre-Conference Workshop — San Juan, Puerto Rico Sunday, October 18, 2026 (all times AST) 8:00 Welcome and framing Guy Oliver & Ted Cheeseman SESSION 1 — COMPUTER VISION 8:30 Charlotte DeBassu (BIRD Lab, US Navy) Development of a machine learning algorithm for automatic detection of whales based on thermal fluke print signatures 9:00 Ane Liv Berthelsen (Bielefeld University) Teaching YOLO to count seals: from images to ecological data 9:30 Henry Sun (Duke Marine Lab) From noise to nature: generative diffusion models for dataset augmentation and cetacean detection 10:00 Break 10:30 Panel discussion SESSION 2 — ACOUSTICS 11:00 Simone Baumann-Pickering (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego) Use of AI in bioacoustics and community tools for passive acoustic monitoring 11:30 Bob Currier (Texas A&M Oceanography) Guardian to Goblin: an onboard Rice’s whale vocalization detector and what it took to get there 12:00 Lunch 1:30 Shane Gero (Dominica Sperm Whale Project; Project CETI; Carleton University) Sperm whale communication (title to be announced) 2:00 Denise Herzing (Wild Dolphin Project; Florida Atlantic University) Charles Ramey (Georgia Institute of Technology; Google DeepMind) From field data to machine learning: motif discovery in dolphin acoustic and behavioral signals 3:00 Break 3:30 Danelle Cline (MBARI) Applying unsupervised machine learning and Google’s Perch2 acoustic embeddings to passive acoustic monitoring: discovering humpback whale song structure and rapidly detecting rare orca calls with minimal data 4:00 Panel discussion CLOSE 4:45 Wrap-up and next steps 5:00 Workshop closes Best regards :) Ted — Dr. Ted Cheeseman Director, Happywhale // Research Fellow, University of California Santa Cruz [email protected] // www.Happywhale.com Support ocean conservation science! https://donorbox.org/donate-to-the-whales-of-guerrero-and-happy-whale Happywhale on NPR: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/scientists-track-humpback-whale-migration-with-an-assist-from-ai-technology Recent publications: Bellwethers of Change: North Pacific humpback whale climate response: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.231462 Humpback whale automated image recognition: https://rdcu.be/cCOtw Multi-species image recognition: https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/2041-210X.14167 ** know your whales :) ** — I live and play on unceded lands of the Ohlone.
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