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c2h.links
cetacean to human
an open source computer system for the scientific research of Cetacean acoustic communication

Contents:

Cetaceans:

Audio - last updated July 24, 2001
Canadian East Coast - last updated July 21, 2001
Canadian West Coast - last updated July 14, 2001
Other - last updated July 24, 2001

Computer Technologies - last updated July 24, 2001
Dictionaries - Glossaries - last updated July 24, 2001
Fun Browsing - last updated July 24, 2001
gov - last updated July 24, 2001
org - last updated July 24, 2001
Zoo - Captivity - last updated July 24, 2001

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1. Cetaceans:

Audio | Canadian East Coast | Canadian West Coast | Other

1.1. Cetacean Audio: recordings in partial acoustic range for human ear

human auditory range: approx. 5 Hz to 20 kHz
cetacean: maybe 1 Hz to 300 kHz (not all Cetacean species cover the entire range)

http://csiwhalesalive.org/csiwhales.ram - short Humpback Whale song - posted July 24, 2001
http://www.whalelink.org - posted July 14, 2001
http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/whales - posted July 14, 2001
http://www.vancouver-aquarium.org/conserv/cetacean/humpbacks.htm - Humpback's recordings - posted July 14, 2001
http://www.unipv.it/cibra/welcome.html - large site - posted July 20, 2001

1.2. Cetaceans - Canadian East Coast:

St. Lawrence River National Institute of Ecotoxicology, Pierre Beland, director of research - posted July 20, 2001
http://www.drea.dnd.ca/potpourri/whales/ecosystems_e.html - East Coast Ecosystems, whale research group, Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada - speciality: sound production of Right Whales - dnd = Dept. of National Defence, Canada - posted July 20, 2001

1.3. Cetaceans - Canadian West Coast:

http://www.vancouver-aquarium.org:

http://www.vancouver-aquarium.org/conserv/cetacean/orcafm.htm - about ORCA-FM posted July 14, 2001

http://www.whalelink.org - live online sounds (disabled for upgrade during summer 2001) - recordings - posted July 14, 2001
http://www.whalelink.org/orcafm/tech.html - technologies, how ORCA-FM works posted July 14, 2001
http://www.itv.net - posted July 14, 2001

http://www.vancouver-aquarium.org/conserv/cetacean/humpbacks.htm - Humpbacks recordings *** posted July 14, 2001
http://www.vancouver-aquarium.org/PRESS/2001/Bjossupdate.htm - the transportation of Bjoss to SeaWorld posted July 14, 2001
http://www.vancouver-aquarium.org/conserv/cetacean/wildwhales.htm - links posted July 14, 2001

http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/whales - recordings *** posted July 14, 2001
http://oceanlink.island.net/ - info | http://oceanlink.island.net/glossary.html - glossary - posted July 14, 2001
book of photos to identify individual Orcas: Killer Whales, 2nd Edition, UBC Press [todo] - posted July 14, 2001

1.4. Other:

http://directory.google.com/Top/Science/Biology/Zoology/Chordates/Mammals/Marine_Mammals/ - posted July 23, 2001
http://directory.google.com/Top/Science/Earth_Sciences/Paleontology/Vertebrates/Mammals/Whales/ - posted July 23, 2001
http://directory.google.com/Top/Society/Issues/Environment/Conservation_and_Endangered_Species/Species_Loss/Mammals/Marine_Mammals/ - posted July 23, 2001
http://directory.google.com/Top/Society/Issues/Animal_Welfare/Specific_Animals/Whales/ - posted July 23, 2001

2. Computer Technologies:

Acoustics | Human Speech Recognition | Internet | Java | XML

2.1. Acoustics: (Tursiops Truncatus goes as high as 200 kHz, may go as high as 300 kHz)

http://www.sensortech.ca/ - Sensor Technology Limited, Ontario, Canada - posted July 20, 2001

*... we are about to introduce the "C-phone" a package consisting of circuitry that includes a hydrophone and earphones. The C-phone will be of use for listening to marine mammals - whales and dolphins - underwater. This will be of particular interest to recreational users and environmentalists.* - mailto:gczerny@sensortech.ca

http://www.bahnhof.se/~pettersson/ - software manufacturer - posted July 20, 2001

http://www.bahnhof.se/~pettersson/psonan.html - specs - posted July 20, 2001

http://members.aol.com/jblue46498/hydrphns.htm - technical info on hydrophones for Cetaceans research - posted July 23, 2001
http://www.cetaceanresearch.com/ - very nice equipment and software but bandwidth may be only 18 Hz to 35 kHz: - posted July 23, 2001

Spectrogram of a call by an Orca: - posted July 23, 2001
http://www.cetaceanresearch.com/documents/acoustic.pdf - Sound Technology Paper on Acoustic Signatures - posted July 23, 2001
http://www.cetaceanresearch.com/links.html - useful links - posted July 23, 2001

http://www.nauta-rcs.it/ - supplier of hydrophones and software for Cetacean research - posted July 24, 2001

Unidentified Cetacean Whistles Spectrogram: - posted July 24, 2001
http://www.nauta-rcs.it/Instruments/N_instru_uk.htm - hardware and software - posted July 24, 2001

http://www.unipv.it/cibra/welcome.html - Interdisciplinary Center for Bioacoustics and Environmental Research, Italy - large site - many links - recordings *** - posted July 20, 2001

Bat Acoustic Analysis System (up to 200 kHz):

http://members.ozemail.com.au/~jollys/ - Anabat: laptop high frequency analysis and dislay in real-time - posted July 20, 2001

http://members.ozemail.com.au/~jollys/model.htm - fitting curves - graphical acoustics - posted July 20, 2001
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~jollys/software.htm - downloads - posted July 20, 2001

http://www.batcon.org - posted July 20, 2001
http://www.batbox.org - posted July 20, 2001

Birds:

http://birds.cornell.edu/brp/SoundSoftware.html - software for birds - posted July 23, 2001

2.2. Human Speech Recognition: (up to 5 kHz?)

W3C Speech Recognition Grammar Specification - posted July 20, 2001
IBM ViaVoice

2.3. Internet - Using the Internet for Cetacean Communication Research:

p2p | security | general |

peer-to-peer | distributed computing:

Java p2p
Development Tools:

http://www.sun.com/software/gridware/ - only for SPARC cpu - free s/w - posted July 23, 2001

Operational Systems:

http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu - SETI@home - posted July 20, 2001
http://members.ud.com/vypc/cancer/ - Cancer Research Project - posted July 20, 2001
http://www.distributed.net - posted July 21, 2001

Lists:

http://dir.yahoo.com/Science/Computer_Science/Distributed_Computing/Projects/ - posted July 20, 2001

Internet Security:

https://grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2 - tests TCP/IP ports of your machine - posted July 20, 2001
http://www.idg.net/gomail.cgi?id=475066 - TCP security hole - posted July 20, 2001
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1948.html - IPSec - posted July 20, 2001

Internet - General:

2.4. Java:

http://gcc.gnu.org/java/ - open source Java compiler - posted July 20, 2001
p2p:

www.jxta.org - Sun et al - posted July 21, 2001

Java and XML:

Java Speech Markup Language (JSML/JSpeech) - posted July 20, 2001
http://xml.coverpages.org/mProject.html M Project: Java XML-Based Messaging System - posted July 21, 2001
http://xml.coverpages.org/jaxr.html Java API for XML Registries (JAXR) - posted July 21, 2001
http://xml.coverpages.org/jaxb.html Java Architecture for XML Binding (JAXB) - posted July 21, 2001
http://xml.coverpages.org/xml.html#xml-coins Coins: Tightly Coupled JavaBeans and XML Elements - posted July 21, 2001
http://xml.coverpages.org/xml.html#xml-javaHelp Java Help API - posted July 21, 2001
http://xml.coverpages.org/publicSW.html#Kawa Kawa - Java-based Scheme System (SENG) - posted July 21, 2001
http://xml.coverpages.org/lists.html#jxml JXML: Java<-->XML - posted July 21, 2001

2.5. XML:

www.xml.org | http://www.oasis-open.org/ | http://xml.coverpages.org/ | W3C XML |

Speech XML:

Transcriber - Speech Segmentation and Annotation DTD - posted July 20, 2001
Natural Language Semantics Markup Language - posted July 20, 2001
Extensible Telephony Markup Language (XTML) - posted July 20, 2001
SABLE: A Standard for Text-to-Speech Synthesis Markup - posted July 20, 2001
W3C Speech Synthesis Markup Language Specification - posted July 20, 2001
W3C Speech Recognition Grammar Specification - posted July 20, 2001
Java Speech Markup Language (JSML/JSpeech) - posted July 20, 2001
SpeechML - posted July 20, 2001
TalkML - posted July 20, 2001
VoiceXML - posted July 20, 2001

Remote Procedure Calls - RPC:

http://xml.coverpages.org/soap.html Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) - posted July 21, 2001

Popular in 2001:

http://xml.coverpages.org/uddi.html Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI) - posted July 21, 2001
http://xml.coverpages.org/wsdl.html Web Services Description Language (WSDL) - posted July 21, 2001
http://xml.coverpages.org/wsfl.htmlWeb Services Flow Language (WSFL) - posted July 21, 2001

XML Security:

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/security/ - posted July 20, 2001

XML for images:

http://www.cgmopen.org/ - xml standards for the exchange of graphical information - posted July 20, 2001
SVG - Scallable Vectored Graphics:

http://www.w3.org/graphics/svg - posted July 23, 2001
http://www.adobe.com/svg/viewer/install/ - Adobe Viewer download - posted July 23, 2001

http://xml.coverpages.org/siteIndex.html - links - posted July 20, 2001

3. Dictionaries - Glossaries:

http://www.acsonline.org/glossary.htm - on Cetaceans - posted July 24, 2001
http://oceanlink.island.net/glossary.html - marine biology glossary - posted July 14, 2001
http://www.buzzwhack.com - pseudo-technical buzzwords with a sense of humor - posted July 21, 2001
http://www.webopedia.com - technologies - posted July 21, 2001
http://whatis.techtarget.com - technologies - posted July 22, 2001
http://www.cookreport.com/cgi-bin/CookDb.pl - technologies - posted July 22, 2001

4. Fun Browsing:

nothing to do? lookup these links to the many sites on Cetaceans:

http://directory.google.com/Top/Science/Biology/Zoology/Chordates/Mammals/Marine_Mammals/ - posted July 23, 2001
http://directory.google.com/Top/Science/Earth_Sciences/Paleontology/Vertebrates/Mammals/Whales/ - posted July 23, 2001
http://directory.google.com/Top/Society/Issues/Environment/Conservation_and_Endangered_Species/Species_Loss/Mammals/Marine_Mammals/ - posted July 23, 2001
http://directory.google.com/Top/Society/Issues/Animal_Welfare/Specific_Animals/Whales/ - posted July 23, 2001
http://www.unipv.it/cibra/welcome.html - Interdisciplinary Center for Bioacoustics and Environmental Research, Italy - large site - many links - recordings *** - posted July 20, 2001
http://www.wdcs.org - Whales and Dolphins Conservation Society - Nice web site, many links - supported by Sun Microsystems - posted July 20, 2001
http://java.sun.com/ - JAVA - posted July 24, 2001
http://oceanlink.island.net/links/lablinks.html - many links - posted July 24, 2001
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/prot_res/species/Cetaceans/cetaceans.html - Cetaceans section - posted July 24, 2001

http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/prot_res/otherres.html#MarMam - links - posted July 24, 2001

http://www.acsonline.org/links.htm - links - posted July 24, 2001
http://www.cetaceanresearch.com/links.html- links - posted July 23, 2001

5. Gov:

http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/ - US National Marine Fisheries Service, Teri Frady, spokesman - posted July 24, 2001

http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/mar_mammals.htm - Marine Mammals section - posted July 24, 2001
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/prot_res/species/Cetaceans/cetaceans.html - Cetaceans section - posted July 24, 2001

Canada Dept. of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO), Jerry Conway, spokesman
St. Lawrence River National Institute of Ecotoxicology, Pierre Beland, Director of research, Canada

6. Org:

research | non-research |

org.research:

http://www.unipv.it/cibra/welcome.html - Interdisciplinary Center for Bioacoustics and Environmental Research, Italy - large site - many links - recordings *** - posted July 20, 2001
http://www.drea.dnd.ca/potpourri/whales/ecosystems_e.html - East Coast Ecosystems, whale research group, Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada - speciality: sound production of Right Whales - associated with military - associated with a manufacturer:

http://www.sensortech.ca - Sensor Technology Limited, Ontario, Canada - posted July 20, 2001

http://directory.google.com/Top/Science/Biology/Zoology/Chordates/Mammals/Marine_Mammals/ - posted July 23, 2001
http://directory.google.com/Top/Science/Earth_Sciences/Paleontology/Vertebrates/Mammals/Whales/ - posted July 23, 2001
http://www.biologie.uni-halle.de/~bzopn/l_acoust.html - links on bioacoustics - posted July 23, 2001
http://dsg.sbs.nus.edu.sg/ - dolphin study group, national university of singapore - posted July 23, 2001
http://sonar-fs.lboro.ac.uk/ - probably linked with military - posted July 23, 2001
http://oceanlink.island.net/links/lablinks.html - many links - posted July 24, 2001
http://whale.wheelock.edu/forms/data_search.html - database of whale photos for identification
CRC - Atlantic Cetacean Research Center
BIOS - Brier Island Cetacean Study
CCS - Center for Coastal Studies
CRU - Cetacean Research unit
CETAP - Cetacean and Turtle Assessment Program
COA - College of the Atlantic
MECCA - Marine Education Center for Cape Ann
MICS - Mingan Island Cetacean Study
NEA - New England Aquarium
ORES - Ocean Research and Education Society
WHOI - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/vents/whales/whales.html - U.S. Navy's SOund SUrveillance System (SOSUS) - Blue Whale's detected off US West Coast at 17 Hz - posted July 24, 2001

org.non-research:

http://www.wdcs.org - Whales and Dolphins Conservation Society - Nice web site, many links - supported by Sun Microsystems - posted July 20, 2001
No Granby Dolphins, eco groups, Naomi Rose, Quebec, Canada - posted July 20, 2001
http://www.zoocheck.com - Zoocheck Canada, Brian McHattie - posted July 20, 2001
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/iwcoffice/ - International Whaling Commission - Pro-Whaling :( - posted July 23, 2001

Countries that support whaling: Japan, Norway, Iceland, Canada (for aboriginals), France, UK.- posted July 24, 2001

http://directory.google.com/Top/Society/Issues/Environment/Conservation_and_Endangered_Species/Species_Loss/Mammals/Marine_Mammals/ - posted July 23, 2001
http://directory.google.com/Top/Society/Issues/Animal_Welfare/Specific_Animals/Whales/ - posted July 23, 2001
http://www.acsonline.org - American Cetacean Society - posted July 24, 2001
http://whale.wheelock.edu - WhaleNet - educational - posted July 24, 2001
http://csiwhalesalive.org - Cetacean Society International - posted July 24, 2001

7. Zoo - Captivity :(

Granby Zoo, delphinarium (planned)
http://oceanlink.island.net/links/lablinks.html#anchor84533 - links - posted July 24, 2001