BISC Postdoctoral Fellow Kieran Cox featured on CBC Radio's North by Northwest

Dr. Cox is a part of an international collaboration applying a cross-disciplinary approach to consolidating acoustic recordings and published information on sound production across all extant fish species globally. Combining expertise in fish ecology, bioacoustics, and data management, the team recently released FishSounds.net, a comprehensive global inventory of fish sound production that allows users to search based on fish taxa, by sound characteristics, or by reference.

To create FishSounds.net, the team extracted data from more than 800 different studies to determine that 989 fish species have been shown to produce active sounds globally. In addition to forming the foundation of the FishSounds database, this survey was recently published in Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries. See 'A quantitative inventory of global soniferous fish diversity' for more information on the taxonomic and geographic distribution of soniferous fishes.

The FishSounds Team, which includes the University of Florida PhD Candidate Audrey Looby, MERIDIAN members Sarah Vela and Amalis Riera, and Dr. Francis Juanes, are now developing a data upload system for the website, an interactive taxonomic tree, and user profiles. Follow them at FishSoundsWeb on Twitter to stay up to date and listen to the CBC interview to hear more about Kieran’s research. 

Visit https://fishsounds.net/results-recordings.js to hear some fish sounds!