https://www.dolphingemma.com/articles Independent research, computational bioacoustics analyses, and marine mammal communication articles. en-us Wed, 14 Oct 2026 21:04:50 GMT https://www.dolphingemma.com/articles/computational-bioacoustics https://www.dolphingemma.com/articles/computational-bioacoustics Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT An engineering and biological overview of computational bioacoustics, examining feature extraction, convolutional networks, transformers, and evaluation metrics for non-human acoustic analysis. bioacoustics https://www.dolphingemma.com/articles/dolphin-communication-research https://www.dolphingemma.com/articles/dolphin-communication-research Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT A methodological history of dolphin communication research, tracing the progression from captive behavioral studies to multi-decade wild field research, hydrophone arrays, and deep learning models. animal-communication https://www.dolphingemma.com/articles/dolphin-sounds-whistles-clicks-burst-pulses https://www.dolphingemma.com/articles/dolphin-sounds-whistles-clicks-burst-pulses Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT A comprehensive technical overview of dolphin acoustic categories, examining frequency-modulated tonal whistles, broadband ultrasonic clicks, burst pulses, and cranial sound production mechanisms. animal-communication https://www.dolphingemma.com/articles/earth-species-project https://www.dolphingemma.com/articles/earth-species-project Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT An analysis of the Earth Species Project (ESP), examining its non-profit mission, self-supervised foundation models (AVES), benchmark suites (BEANS), and verified open-source licensing. models-and-projects https://www.dolphingemma.com/articles/how-do-dolphins-communicate https://www.dolphingemma.com/articles/how-do-dolphins-communicate Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT An empirical examination of delphinid communication, covering acoustic signaling (signature whistles, clicks, burst pulses), non-acoustic modalities, and the scientific limits of language interpretation. animal-communication https://www.dolphingemma.com/articles/hydrophones-underwater-recording https://www.dolphingemma.com/articles/hydrophones-underwater-recording Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT An engineering deep-dive into underwater acoustic recording, examining piezoelectric transducer physics, hydrophone sensitivity calibration, sampling rates, and ocean ambient noise. bioacoustics https://www.dolphingemma.com/articles/passive-acoustic-monitoring https://www.dolphingemma.com/articles/passive-acoustic-monitoring Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT A comprehensive guide to passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) in marine science, examining autonomous hydrophone moorings, sound propagation physics, and acoustic density estimation. bioacoustics https://www.dolphingemma.com/articles/project-ceti-sperm-whales https://www.dolphingemma.com/articles/project-ceti-sperm-whales Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT An empirical examination of Project CETI (Cetacean Translation Initiative), exploring non-invasive tagging, synchronized hydrophone arrays, and machine learning discovery of combinatorial click codas in sperm whales. models-and-projects https://www.dolphingemma.com/articles/signature-whistles-bottlenose-dolphins https://www.dolphingemma.com/articles/signature-whistles-bottlenose-dolphins Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT A comprehensive scientific review of signature whistles in bottlenose dolphins, examining individualized frequency contours, playback evidence, vocal labeling, and multi-decade field research. animal-communication https://www.dolphingemma.com/articles/spectrograms-in-bioacoustics https://www.dolphingemma.com/articles/spectrograms-in-bioacoustics Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT A comprehensive guide to bioacoustic spectrogram interpretation, examining the Short-Time Fourier Transform (STFT), windowing functions, FFT resolution trade-offs, and acoustic artifacts. bioacoustics https://www.dolphingemma.com/articles/sperm-whale-click-codas https://www.dolphingemma.com/articles/sperm-whale-click-codas Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT A comprehensive scientific examination of sperm whale click codas, exploring Watkins & Schevill's foundation, sympatric vocal clans, multi-level identity cues, and the Sharma et al. 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