Other Resources

This page contains marking schemes, answer keys, and additional papers.

 

Assignments

  • Assignment 1: TS evolution
  • Assignment 2: Active acoustic research approaches
  • Assign 3 Alternate Target Classification
  • Assignment 4: Application problems

    • Answer Keys

    Are posted after assignments/labs are marked
  • Assignment 1: TS and Multifrequency evolution key
  • Assignment 2: Active acoustic research key

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    Laboratories

  • Problem Set 1 answers
  • Problem Set 2 answers
  • Problem Set 3 answers

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    Assignment Literature

    Assignment 1

  • Love 1971: Dorsal aspect
  • McCartney and Stubbs 1971
  • Love 1971: Measurements of fish TS
  • Midttun 1984
  • Miyanohana et al. 1990
  • Ona 1990
  • Sato et al. 2015
  • Jech et al. 2017

    • Assignment 2

  • Holiliday and Pieper 1995

    • Assignment 3

  • Allken et al 2018: Convolution neural network
  • Haralabous and Georgakarakos 1996: Artificial neural network
  • ICES CRR 344 Acoustic target classification
  • Horne 2000: Acoustic approaches to remote species identification

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    Lecture Papers

    Week 1

  • Fernandes et al: ICES History
  • MacLennan et al: Acoustic Symbols

    • Week 3

  • Where does the volume term come from?
  • ICES Survey Design Workshop 2004
  • ICES Survey Design Workshop 2005
  • O'Driscoll: Uncertainty

    • Week 4

  • MacLennan calibration
  • Acoustic Calibration CRR 144
  • Calibration of acoustic instruments CRR 326
  • ES60 Dither: Ryan and Kloser 2004
  • Calibration Commentaries: LOBES
  • Bodholt 2002

    Week 5

  • MacLennan et al: Acoustic Symbols
  • O'Driscoll: Uncertainty

    • Week 6

  • Ehrenberg and Torkelson 2000
  • AFSC calibration Protocol
  • ICES calibration topic group
  • Nero broadband Grenadier

    Week 7

  • Mueller tail-beat
  • Gauthier and Horne: Potential acoustic discrimination
  • Anderson et al: Probabilistic classification
  • Holliday: The use of swimbladder resonance in the sizing of schooled pelagic fish
  • Horne: Acoustic approaches to remote species identification: a review
  • Cutter & Demer: Multibeam sonar target strengths

    • Week 8

    Coming soon

    Week 9

  • Macaulay et al: Model comparison
  • Jech et al: Application of three sound scattering models to threadfin shad
  • Jech et al: Comparisons among ten models of acoustic backscattering used in aquatic ecosystem research


  • Horne and Jech 1999 inverse
  • Lawson et al 2004 forward
  • Lavery et al 2007 forward/inverse

    Week 10

  • Au et al 2004 killer whale foraging
  • Au et al 2010 salmon discrimination
  • Croll et al: Effect of anthropogenic low-frequency noise on the foraging ecology of Balaenoptera whales
  • Kastelein et al: Underwater hearing sensitivity of Steller sea lions
  • 2018 NMFS Marine Mammal Guidance

    • Week 11

  • Urmy et al. EchoMetrics
  • Horne and Jacques Representative Range
  • Linder et al. Baseline Models
  • Linder and Horne Model Evaluation
  • Weisebron et al. EVA
  • Weisebron et al. EVA comparison
  • Fonseca & Calder: Geocoder
  • Fonseca & Mayer 2007
  • Anderson et al: Seabed classification 2007
  • Yeung & McConnaughey 2008
  • Fonseca et al 2009
  • McConnaughey & Syrjala 2009

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    Midterm Exam

  • Practice Midterm Problems

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    Lab Files

    Lake Washington Survey

  • Noise Buster: De Robertis & Higgenbottom 2007
  • Lake Washington Fish Catch

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    Web Links

  • An Introduction to Underwater Acoustics
  • Acoustics Unpacked
  • Velocity of Sound in Seawater
  • Cal sphere TS Calculator

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    Other Files

  • What is a critical review
  • CFJAS Manuscript Parts: referencing guide
  • ICES Author Guide
  • Kriging Acoustic Data

    • Fisheries Acoustics Research Lab

    FISH 538