WhaleFM

PROJECT

Url:http://whale.fm/
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Infrastructure: Zooniverse

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PROJECT DEFINITION

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Description

Purpose.

Different international research projects have been set up to address several of these issues by studying the effect of sound on the behavior of marine mammals. The aim of such ‘behavioral response studies’ is to try to understand how and why marine mammals respond to various sound stimuli. These studies are badly needed in order to establish regulations and guidelines to mitigate the impact of man-made sound on marine life. Many of the sounds that you will hear in this project have been recorded during such behavioral response studies. In these experiments, the effect of sonar sound on killer whales and pilot whales is studied. What we find is that killer whales and pilot whales respond to sonar sounds amongst others by changing the calls that they make. The communication of killer whales and pilot whales is still poorly understood. While we know for some species the general context in which sounds are made (reproduction, contact calls for finding each other) many of the calls remain a mystery to us. To properly understand the implications of these responses, we need to know more about why and when animals make specific calls. This process is very challenging especially for vocal species such as killer whales and pilot whales. Source: Science, retrieved oct. 14 2013

Research question.

According to the Science page, (retrieved oct. 14 2013), the dataset generated by this project will allow us to address interesting questions, such as:

• How well do different judgements of volunteers agree, and how well can we categorize calls of vocal species such as pilot whales?
• How large is the call repertoire of pilot whales? (is size repertoire sign of intelligence?)
• Do the long and short finned pilot whales have different call repertoires (or ‘dialects’?)

ABOUT PARTICIPANT TASKS

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Tasks description.

Participants have to identify matching calls. They can look at spectograms and also listen to sound.

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Grey typology	Participation typology	Contribution type:
Computing: NO Thinking: YES Sensing: NO Gaming: NO	Crowdsourcing ☐ Distributed intelligence ☐ Participatory science ☐ Extreme citizen science ☐ Science outreach ☐	Data collection ☐ Data analysis ☐ Data interpretation ☑--------
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Data type to manipulate: sound, other	interface enjoyment: Interface usability:	Member profiles::N/A Member profile elements:

ABOUT GUIDANCE AND FEEDBACK

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Guidance	Feedback on
Tutorial and documentation: YES Training sequence: SOMEWHAT Peer to peer guidance: SOMEWHAT	individual performance: Somewhat collective performance: Somewhat research progress: Somewhat

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COMMUNITY

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OTHER PROJECT INFORMATION

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N/A [[Has project purpose::Different international research projects have been set up to address several of these issues by studying the effect of sound on the behavior of marine mammals. The aim of such ‘behavioral response studies’ is to try to understand how and why marine mammals respond to various sound stimuli. These studies are badly needed in order to establish regulations and guidelines to mitigate the impact of man-made sound on marine life.

Many of the sounds that you will hear in this project have been recorded during such behavioral response studies. In these experiments, the effect of sonar sound on killer whales and pilot whales is studied. What we find is that killer whales and pilot whales respond to sonar sounds amongst others by changing the calls that they make.

The communication of killer whales and pilot whales is still poorly understood. While we know for some species the general context in which sounds are made (reproduction, contact calls for finding each other) many of the calls remain a mystery to us. To properly understand the implications of these responses, we need to know more about why and when animals make specific calls. This process is very challenging especially for vocal species such as killer whales and pilot whales.

Source: Science, retrieved oct. 14 2013]] [[Has research question::According to the Science page]], (retrieved oct. 14 2013), the dataset generated by this project will allow us to address interesting questions, such as:

• How well do different judgements of volunteers agree, and how well can we categorize calls of vocal species such as pilot whales?
• How large is the call repertoire of pilot whales? (is size repertoire sign of intelligence?)
• Do the long and short finned pilot whales have different call repertoires (or ‘dialects’?)

Whale FM Participants have to identify matching calls. They can look at spectograms and also listen to sound. data interpretation

sound, other, other: Spectograms Thinking: yes Computing: no Sensing: no Gaming: no

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