Publications about the Tethys workbench and database.

  1. Roch, M. A., Batchelor, H., Baumann-Pickering, S., Berchock, C. L., Cholewiak, D., Fujioka, E., Garland , E. C., Herbert, S., Hildebrand, J. A., Oleson, E. M., Van Parijs, S. M., Risch, D., and Širović , A. (2016). “Management of acoustic metadata for bioacoustics,” Ecol Inform 31. 122-136. Open access.
  2. M. A. Roch, S. Baumann-Pickering, H. Batchelor, D. Hwang, A. Širović, J. A. Hildebrand, C. L. Berchok, D. Cholewiak, L. M. Munger, E. M. Oleson, S. V. Parijs, D. Risch, and M. S. Soldevilla (2013), “Tethys: A workbench and database for passive acoustic metadata,” Proc. IEEE Oceans, San Diego, CA, 5 pp., October. Preprint available.

ASA/ANSI standard

  1. The Acoustical Soceity of America & The American National Standards Institute, “S3/SC1.7-2026: Standard for Acoustic Metadata for Passive Acoustic Monitoring,” American National Standards Institute, Washington DC, Available for purchase from ANSI. Committee: M. A. Roch (chair), S. Baumann-Pickering, D. Cholevviak, S. Guan, J. Kanes, K. H. Kim, H. Klinck, X. Mouy, A. Širović, and C. C. Wall
  2. M. A. Roch, S. Baumann-Pickering, D. Cholevviak, S. Guan, J. Kanes, K. H. Kim, H. Klinck, X. Mouy, A. Širović, and C. C. Wall, ( 2026). “How to Gudeline,” Supplement to ASA/ANSI S3/SC1.7-2026 Standard for Acoustic Metadata for Passive Acoustic Monitoring,” Acoustical Soceity of America, Melville, NY, pp. 33. Available from ASA.

Publications using Tethys or ASA/ANSI standards

  1. M. A. Roch, S. Lindeneau, G. Singh Aurora, K. E. Frasier, J. A. Hildebrand, H. Glotin, and S. Baumann-Pickering, (2021). “Using context to train time-domain echolocation click detectors.” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 149, 3301-3310. Available at doi:10.1121/10.0004992.
  2. J. A. Hildebrand, K. E. Frasier, S. Baumann-Pickering, S. M. Wiggins, S. M., K. P. Merkens, L. P. Garrison, M. S. Soldevilla, . and M. A. McDonald. (2019). Assessing Seasonality and Density From Passive Acoustic Monitoring of Signals Presumed to be From Pygmy and Dwarf Sperm Whales in the Gulf of Mexico. Front Mar Sci 6. Open access at doi:10.3389/fmars.2019.00066.
  3. A. E. Simonis, M. A. Roch, B. Bailey, J. Barlow, R. E. S. Clemesha, S. Iacobellis, J. A. Hildebrand, J., and S. Baumann-Pickering. “Lunar cycles affect common dolphin Delphinus delphis foraging in the Southern California Bight,” Marine Ecology Progress Series 577. 221-235, August, 2017. Open access at doi:10.3354/meps12247.
  4. A. Rice, A., V. B. Deecke, J. K. B. Ford, J. F. Pilkington, E. M. Oleson, J. A. Hildebrand, and A. Širović, A. (2017). “Spatial and temporal occurrence of killer whale ecotypes off the outer coast of Washington State, USA,” Marine Ecology Progress Series 572, 255-268. Open access at https://doi.org/10.3354/meps12158.
  5. Baumann-Pickering, S., Trickey, J. S., Wiggins, S. M. and Oleson, E. M. (2016). Odontocete occurrence in relation to changes in oceanography at a remote equatorial Pacific seamount. Marine Mammal Science, 32(3), 805-825., Available at doi:10.1111/mms.12299.
  6. A. Širović, A. Rice, E. Chou, J. A. Hildebrand, S. M. Wiggins, and M. A. Roch, (2015). “Seven years of blue and fin whale call abundance in Southern California,” Endangered Species Research, 28, 61-76. Open access at https://dx.doi.org/10.3354/esr00676.
  7. Roch, M. A., Stinner-Sloan, J., Baumann-Pickering, S., (2015). “The Effects of Site and Equipment Variation on Species Identification of Delphinids from Their Echolocation Clicks.” J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 173(1), 22-29, January. Postprint available.
  8. Baumann-Pickering, S., Roch, M. A., Brownell Jr, R. L., Simonis, A. E., McDonald, M. A., Solsona-Berga, A., Oleson, E. M., Wiggins, S. M. and Hildebrand, J. A. (2014). “Spatio-Temporal Patterns of Beaked Whale Echolocation Signals in the North Pacific”. PLoS One 9, 17, Open access at doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0086072.g001.
  9. Wall, C. C., Haver, S. M., Hatch, L. T., Miksis-Olds, J., Bochenek, R., Dziak, R. P., and Gedamke, J. (2021). “The Next Wave of Passive Acoustic Data Management: How Centralized Access Can Enhance Science”, Frontiers in Marine Science, 2296-7745. Open access at doi:10.3389/fmars.2021.703682.

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