SeaSensors

Monitoring of blast fishing, whales dolphins and ocean noise in East Africa. Collaboration btwn @gillbraulik, @jam_machund, @_SMRU_ & @Code4Africa

[The African Bioacoustics Community @AfriBioacoustic]

'Knowledge and data is power'- thank you to @GillBraulik for your talk on using acoustics to document fishing with explosives. Awesome to see acoustics being used to help stop a really devastating form of fishing. #africanbioacoustics

[SeaSensors @SeaSensors]

The acoustics whiz on our @SeaSensors project gets his phd although he already earned it several times over! Congrats Jamie

[Bioacoustics AU @BioacousticsAU]

Amazing what a smart physicist with a big heart for the living world can do for marine mammal conservation. Stay tuned, he has just started 😉 (2/2)

[NTV Kenya @ntvkenya]

UPDATE: Government suspends learning in the country, all primary and secondary students to be home by 18th March.

All universities, colleges to close by Friday 20th March ~ President Uhuru Kenyatta decrees.

[Chris Roper @ChrisRoper]

One of our glamour projects. Blue sea, white beaches, illegal blast fishing and sensor data.

[Gill Braulik @GillBraulik]

Very happy to share that I have an EU Marie curie fellowship to study river dolphins and dams that I will be taking at @univofstandrews @_SMRU_ starting in September!

[Intl Bio-Logging Soc @biologging]

#Biologging anouncement! To help everyone get pumped for the #BLS7 conference, we are launching our #IBioLS free webinar series in two weeks! Our first webinar will be on the "Breadth of Bio-Logging" on March 20. Watch this space next week for details on how to join!

[Guillaume Rieucau @g_rieucau]

Our new article on the effect of underwater noise on fish reproduction is now available online. I am very proud of this work led by Karen deJong.
https://t.co/QCPjkjxPxh

[Justin Arenstein @justinarenstein]

Awesome to see the #BigData being produced by our hydrophone (under water) sensors to combat dynamite 💣 fishing, pioneered by @GillBraulik in Zanzibar

[SeaSensors @SeaSensors]

currently sorting through sound clips selected by #Pamguard as the possible sound of underwater dynamite blasts in Tanga Tanzania. Now exploring by hand to confirm which are blasts and which are not... good news, so far very few blasts detected.. @Code4Africa @_SMRU_ @wiomsa

[SeaSensors @SeaSensors]

This awesome programme was written by the amazing @jam_machund for the @SeaSensors project to help sift thousands of hours of data to find dynamite blasts. Wonderful to now see it being used for other important purposes!

[Gill Braulik @GillBraulik]

acoustics can detect explosives used for fishing up to 30km away, and sometimes even more, making it an incredible tool for monitoring this illegal activity. At least 70 blasts suspected in 2018 despite few heard from land

[SeaSensors @SeaSensors]

Update on accoustic monitoring of illegal #fishing with #explosives along the coast of #Tanzania. Although blast fishing has declined it is still occurring in Pangani and Tanga at low levels.. @MwambaoCCN @WWFTANZANIA @SeaSenseNGO @WCSocean @wiomsa @Code4Africa

[SeaSensors @SeaSensors]

the challenges of deploying underwater water #acoustic recorders to document the pattern of fishing with #explosives in #Tanzania #IUU @Code4Africa @jam_machund @_SMRU_ @tafirihq @wiomsa @WiMSnetwork @GillBraulik https://t.co/zRLfD5zVOq

[Gill Braulik @GillBraulik]

acoustic monitoring of illegal activities at sea can show a great deal that cannot be detected from land

[Justin Arenstein @justinarenstein]

Example of how investigative sensor journalism can shine new light on contentious issues: our @SeaSensors initiative uses hydrophones (underwater sensors) to track illegal dynamite fishing in Tanzania.

[SeaSensors @SeaSensors]

fishing with explosives in #tanzania is reported to have almost stopped after government enforcement stepped up. our underwater acoustic monitors show that it is ongoing but in harder to detect offshore areas of Pangani and Tanga.. @wiomsa @NCSecretariat @USAID @WBTanzania

[SeaSensors @SeaSensors]

Excellent data from the Tanzania Blast Fishing Monitoring Network show that dynamite fishing has plummeted in Tanzania over the last two years due to enforcement activities by the Navy... great work guys @MwambaoCCN @jrlovepanda @SeaSenseNGO @wiomsa

[SeaSensors @SeaSensors]

@frantsjensen @GillBraulik @_SMRU_ @Code4Africa @MwambaoCCN @jam_machund @womeninmmsci None lost! Four recorders, nine months, none lost yet!

[SeaSensors @SeaSensors]

@SeaSensors acoustic recorder retrieval round 3

[Gill Braulik @GillBraulik]

4 days, 8 dives, 3 flights, 8 hrs of driving, - 4 acoustic recorders successfully retrieved from the #Tanzanian coast. Plenty of cuts, bruises and scrapes. Now home to the kids and time for a day off! #seasensors @Code4Africa @MwambaoCCN @_SMRU_ @jam_machund @womeninmmsci

[Mwambao Coastal Community Network Tanzania @MwambaoCCN]

Dr. Braulik's work will help to triangulate blast information collected by our network of community recorders. Helping to answer the question 'How many blasts are we unable to detect from a shore-based location?'