BioSound Working Group

Acoustics
Passive acoustic monitoring listens to the soundscape of the sea; active acoustics enumerates fish and zooplankton. Together they cover the water column continuously, day and night.
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SanctSound
Sanctuary Soundscape Monitoring Project — explore underwater sound across U.S. national marine sanctuaries through illustrated question-and-answer panels.
Learn moreLA MBON Louisiana Oyster Reef-Associated Benthic Biodiversity - Biodiversity Information
This dataset contains abundance and biomass measurements of oyster-reef associated benthic biodiversity as well as extended measures of oyster reef health including sediment organic matter content, volume of reef material, volume and/or counts of live oysters,…
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This dataset contains abundance and biomass measurements of oyster-reef associated benthic biodiversity as well as extended measures of oyster reef health including sediment organic matter content, volume of reef material, volume and/or counts of live oysters,…
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Terceira Island Workshop 2025: Marine Biodiversity Data
A hands-on workshop on mobilising marine biological datasets to OBIS, with field training on rocky intertidal monitoring using MBON Pole to Pole protocols. Terceira Island, Azores, November 2025.
Read storyUNH - Coastal New England MBON - Atlantic cod
This is the OBIS extraction of the Atlantic Cooperative Telemetry and University of New Hampshire (UNH) UNH - Coastal New England MBON - Atlantic cod, consisting of the release tagging metadata, i.e.
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