Dear MARMAMers, This email is intended to introduce to the MARMAM community a multi-institution effort (University of St Andrews, Syracuse University, Texas A&M University Galveston, University of California San Diego, NOAA, SMRU Consulting) starting a new project ACCURATE – ACoustic CUe RATEs for passive acoustics density estimation. The project, running from late 2019 to 2023, is funded by the US Navy Living Marine resources program. A very short description can be found below and a few additional details can be found at https://www.researchgate.net/project/ACCURATE-ACoustic-CUe-RATEs-for-passive... but please do reach out at “tiago.marques at st-andrews.ac.uk” if you would like to know more. ACCURATE does not involve any field work nor any dedicated data collection, leveraging on some previously identified existing datasets for its core tasks. Nonetheless, one of its initial tasks was to identify additional datasets that might be considered for further insights on the broad topic of acoustic cue rate production and estimation. Therefore, at this point we would like to: (1) Identify projects and or bibliographic references that might be included in our literature review. We would be very happy to receive from the MARMAM community references on acoustic cue production on all marine mammal species, including papers a. describing sounds that could be used for PAM density estimation, b. their production rates, and c. factors that might affect these production rates. If you happen to be or have been involved on research on that topic, it would be outstanding to receive your feedback and potential references or grey literature on the topic. Please do so by sending us an email at “Papers4AccurateReview at gmail.com”. A reference will be good, a pdf will be great, and the more the better! (2) Identify projects including data sets that might be relevant in this context. If you are conducting research on the topic or that might be collecting data that could be leveraged upon for the topic we would love to hear from you. This would include any dataset that allows one to estimate cue rate production, specifically (but not exclusively) animal borne tags with onboard acoustic recorders. Please do so via “tiago.marques at st-andrews.ac.uk” On behalf of the ACCURATE team, looking forward to hear from the MARMAM community Tiago Marques In short, The ACCURATE project aims to deliver a comprehensive, quantitative synthesis of the current state of knowledge on acoustic cue rates and cue stability for marine mammal density estimation from passive acoustics. The ultimate goal is to determine the most appropriate cue rates to use in a particular setting (considering different contextual settings). To achieve this, the project will include (1) identifying, reviewing, compiling and providing open access to all data available on cue rates (and their variability) across deep-diving and baleen whale species; (2) developing methods to estimate cue rates from different data types (e.g. time depth-data) and for different taxa; (3) applying these methods to species of interest for the Navy (including both deep divers and baleen whales); (4) exploring the factors that determine cue rate variability over time and space; (5) evaluating impacts of cue rate variability on density estimates from cue-based methods. This information will be made publicly available to the wider community interested in estimating density from passive acoustics. Finally, we will deliver a comprehensive set of recommendations of the most appropriate means by which to advance this field to meet Navy needs. __________________________________________ Tiago André Marques email (St Andrews): tiago.marques at st.andrews.ac.uk email (FCUL): tamarques at ciencias.ulisboa.pt email (personal): tiagoandremarques at gmail.com Mobile (personal): 00351919651628 Twitter: @TiagoALOMarques Skype: talomar __________________________________________ Google Scholar SHqH7fMAAAAJ ORCID 0000-0002-2581-1972 ResearcherID A-5530-2010 Scopus ID 6603703024 __________________________________________ University of St Andrews Senior Research Fellow School of Mathematics and Statistics Centre for Research into Ecological and Environmental Modelling The Observatory, Buchanan Gardens, St Andrews, Fife, KY16 9LZ, Scotland Phone: 00441334461842 Fax: 00441334461800 The University of St Andrews is a charity registered in Scotland : No SC013532 http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/profile/tam2 __________________________________________ Universidade de Lisboa Professor Auxiliar Convidado Departamento de Biologia Animal Centro de Estatística e Aplicações Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa Bloco C6, Piso 4, Campo Grande, 1749-016 Lisboa, PORTUGAL FCUL: 00351217500170 (my usual office) https://ciencias.ulisboa.pt/pt/perfil/tamarques __________________________________________