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Applying computer vision to accelerate monitoring and analysis of bird incubation behaviors: a case study using common eider nest camera footage

open access: yesRemote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.
Visualization of the pipeline is divided into two primary segments: automated (i.e., the user adapts the code directly to build a custom computer vision model) and human‐in‐the‐loop (i.e., the user manually evaluates the output of the model). In step 1, raw imagery data are selected for training and testing datasets; ideally, these datasets are ...
Lindsay Veazey   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

PICES Press, Vol. 20, No. 1, Winter 2012 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
•2011 PICES Science: A Note from the Science Board Chairman (pp. 1-6) •2011 PICES Awards (pp. 7-9) •Beyond the Terrible Disaster of the Great East Japan Earthquake (pp. 10-12) •A New Era of PICES-ICES Scientific Cooperation (p.

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Big Bird: A global dataset of birds in drone imagery annotated to species level

open access: yesRemote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.
Drones are a valuable tool for surveying birds, but manually detecting and identifying birds in drone images is costly. We assembled a diverse dataset of 23 865 images of birds captured with 21 different drones across 11 countries. We labelled 4824 of these images, detailing the location, species, posture category, age category, and sex of 49 990 birds
Joshua P. Wilson   +19 more
wiley   +1 more source

CHARACTERISTICS OF FORMATION, INHIBITION AND DESTRUCTION OF YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS BIOFILMS FORMING ON ABIOTIC SURFACES

open access: yesЖурнал микробиологии, эпидемиологии и иммунобиологии, 2015
Aim. Detection of conditions of Yersinia pseudo tuberculosis biofilm formation, their quantitative testing. Materials and methods. Y. pseudotuberculosis strains, nutrient media, standard 96-well polystyrene plates, crystal violet dye as well as ...
N. A Terentieva   +3 more
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Expanded Protections for a U.S. Pacific Ocean Treasure [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
On Sept. 25, 2014, U.S. President Barack Obama announced a significant expansion of the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument, a group of five highly protected marine reserves located thousands of miles southwest of the Hawaiian Islands ...

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Advancing Sustainable Tourism in Svalbard by Assessing and Prioritizing Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tourism is a significant sector on the Svalbard archipelago. The increase in visitors and tourism activities has reshaped the local community of Longyearbyen, brought new economic opportunities, and put greater pressure on the local environment.
Julien Lebel   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pathways and timescales of Southern Ocean hydrothermal iron and manganese transport

open access: yesCommunications Earth & Environment
Scarcity of iron and manganese limits the efficiency of the biological carbon pump over large areas of the Southern Ocean. The importance of hydrothermal vents as a source of these micronutrients to the euphotic zone of the Southern Ocean is debated ...
Antony J. Birchill   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Blue‐Prints for Ocean Governance: Analyzing Resource Sustainability in International Blue Economic Frameworks

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Championed as a pathway for sustainable growth, the “blue economy” (BE) has garnered increasing interest in recent decades. International organizations like the World Bank and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) increasingly point to marine resources and activities as a “new frontier” for economic growth ...
Flora St. Pier   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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