GLUBS, The Global Library of Underwater Biological Sounds is an international effort initiated by members of the International Quiet Ocean Experiment and in particular M. Parsons (AIMS, Australia) to gather on a single platform worldwide collections of aquatic sounds. The proposed platform will provide a reference library, i.e., a soundbank, of known and unknown biological sound sources; a data repository portal; a training platform for artificial intelligence algorithms for signal detection and classification; an interface for developing species distribution maps, based on sound; and a citizen science-based application so people who love the ocean can participate in this project.
A grant from the Richard Lounsbery Foundation (USA) has been granted to UPVD (L. Di Iorio) and WHOI (A. Mooney) to start building a multidisciplinary, web-based, open-access global reference platform of underwater sounds.
