PhD position at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands!
The announced PhD position focuses on foraging and life-cycle ecology of fish and marine mammals. The PhD will work on characterization of underwater soundscapes to evaluate impacts of wind farms on the behaviour of fish and marine mammals. A main task is to work on automated identification of biological sounds using passive acoustic data. Passive acoustic monitoring will be conducted with species identification based on a neural network trained and tuned to the turbulent waters of the North Sea. Existing automated detection algorithms will be used to identify seals and porpoises. The results will be used to create seasonal acoustic presence maps, investigate differences in community composition inside and outside wind farms and identify how OFWs impact the behaviour of different species groups. The research is a cooperation between Groningen and Leiden Universities, and the position is placed at Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life-Sciences, University of Groningen.
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