Wonderful PhD opportunity in deep-sea ecology. If the words: adventure, ecology and computer, echo in you, apply now. The team is great here!

Proud to share this preprint by Poppy Clark on a new user-friendly AI tool for biodiversity analysis of underwater images! Let's kickstart an era of model sharing and collaboration to analyse our big datasets of marine images quickly and robustly!

The CoMMa #ArcPro Toolbox is out now! Mapping and characterising mounds (or pockmarks) has never been easier! #CoralMounds More info here: zenodo.org/records/8434457 UCC Ireland BGS in Scotland

Deep sea research shows self-organising tiger patters in cold water coral reefs naturetoday.com/intl/en/nature…

*PhD position alert* Use #acoustics and #AI to study #seagrass #restoration and their #EcosystemValue in Scotland! 🤿🎧🦐🐟🦀🫧💰 Apply here: shorturl.at/diEKV IAPETUS DTP University of Glasgow University of Stirling The University of Edinburgh

Five days into the @UofG_SBOHVM Tropical Marine Biology field course in the beautiful Red Sea, #egypt. Diving, freediving, and fish.

📢PhD opportunities in Ecological Data Science as part of *Leverhulme DTP* On offer: fully funded deep-learning PhD project working with exciting long-term deep-sea acoustic and image datasets!🪸🐟📸🎤👩‍💻 👉More info here: ecological-data-science.github.io/projects.html #DeepSea #MachineLearning

🚨Applications for our funded studentships closes in just over a month (March 22) 📷Find out more about the application process here: ecological-data-science.github.io/apply.html & in the meantime browse the available projects here: ecological-data-science.github.io/projects.html

Check out this new paper by @Anna_vd_Kaaden on the environmental controls on the importance of ecosystem engineering, with great illustrations! bg.copernicus.org/articles/21/97…

Final days to apply to the Ecological Data Science Leverhulme DTP which offers an exciting array of data science and machine learning projects! More info here: ecological-data-science.github.io/projects.html Deadline: 5pm (GMT) on the 22nd March 2024. Tiffany Vlaar Abraham George Smith EcologicalDataSci

Workshop coming up to learn about image data collection at sea, exciting new AI methods, and advanced statistical analysis. Marine Animal Forest of the World University of Glasgow UniversidadeAçores The University of Edinburgh Funding for travel is available! Apply 👉 shorturl.at/jlrNU

The National Oceanography Centre (Southampton, UK) are recruiting a Marine Economist! Apply here: careers.noc.ac.uk/vacancy/marine…

Great work by Poppy Clark using interactive #MachineLearning to identify the sponge Mycale lingua automatically from time-lapse and ROV image data! #AI #DeepSea UofG MVLS University of Glasgow

So pleased to see one of our UofG SBOHVM Life Sciences alums featured here AND on BBC Springwatch ! Really nice job Phoebe!!

Thrilled to see such an amazing & engaged group at our Marine Animal Forest of the World Training School! 🪸🦀🐟📸🖥️📊 Excited for them to learn all about - Underwater #Image Collection & Processing - Manual and #AI annotation methods - Basic to Advanced #Statistics

The Marine Animal Forest of the World Training School participants diving into the future of marine image annotation with the #AI #Interactive software, #RootPainter 🌊📷 Interested in using this yourself?! Check out our paper by Poppy Clark or get in touch! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs… 📷

Huge thanks to our training school's Marine Animal Forest of the World guest speakers Ryan Field, Kerry Howell, and Tiffany Vlaar for their amazing talks on #FAIR principles, #GitHub, image #standardisation, awesome #YOLO models, and the #AI-#ClimateChange connection! 🌍✨

Big thanks to Johanne Vad and Carlos Dominguez Carrió for co-organising and sharing their expertise with the Marine Animal Forest of the World participants! 🙏✨ #KnowledgeSharing #TeamWork

A huge thank you to Pauline, Phoebe, and Jana for their outstanding hospitality during our stay at SCENE where we hosted our Marine Animal Forest of the World training school in underwater #image analysis, #AI & #statistics! You took such great care of us, and the food was absolutely amazing!

How do you boost AI model training efficiency? A team of Benthic Ecologists and Machine Learning Scientists dived into this at the Marine Animal Forest of the World training school! More on this topic coming soon ….! #AI #RootPainter #iML #BenthicEcology