Acoustic structure
Short spectrogram examples demonstrate call morphology and review context.
Research
Research-led marine bioacoustics.
Halicho Marine is grounded in active research on underwater seal vocal repertoires, acoustic structure and monitoring methods.
Journal paper
Current scientific paper.
Coming soon
Ecological and Acoustic Structure of Underwater Seal Vocal Repertoires Revealed Using Contrastive Representation Learning
First-author research paper currently under review by the journal Bioacoustics.
The work investigates acoustic repertoire structure, call families, subtype organisation and environmental relationships in underwater seal vocalisations.
BioacousticsUnder reviewRepresentation learningSeal repertoires
Conference papers
Collaborative acoustic monitoring research.
Automated Classification of Vocalisations from Wild and Captive Seal Populations
Collaborative conference paper with the University of Bath and Celtic Sea Power exploring labelled seal call classes and spectrogram-based classification.
Open PDFPower and Accuracy Trade-Offs for Machine Learning Methods Applied to Detection of Underwater Sound Sources
Conference paper comparing waveform and spectrogram-based approaches for underwater acoustic classification, including performance and computational trade-offs.
Open PDFRepertoire analysis
Visual acoustic evidence supports transparent discussion of classification and uncertainty.
The research direction is not just automated detection. It is biologically interpretable repertoire analysis for better passive acoustic monitoring.