Denise comes to Google to present this cutting-edge work and recent results, including perspectives on the challenges of studying this aquatic society, and decoding their communication signals using the latest technology.ĭiving with Dolphins – 2007, BBC, Hosted by Tanja Streeter, championship free-diver Denise Herzing has spent three decades researching and communicating with wild dolphins in their natural setting and on their own terms.
Starner and Herzing will present this cutting-edge work and recent results, including perspectives on the challenges of studying this aquatic society, and decoding their communication signals using the latest technology. Thad Starner works on mining this dataset and decoding dolphin sounds, and has created a wearable underwater computer, CHAT (Cetacean Hearing and Telemetry), to help establish a bridge for communication between humans and dolphins. Her video and acoustic database encompasses a myriad of complex vocalizations and dolphin behavior. Denise Herzing has been studying Atlantic spotted dolphins, Stenella frontalis, in the Bahamas for over three decades. Scientists have struggled to understand dolphin vocalizations, but new computer tools to both track dolphins and decode their complex vocalizations are now emerging. In addition to deciphering the dolphins’ vocalizations, Herzing and collaborators are also exploring two-way communications between the researchers and the animals using a custom-made underwater acoustic interface called “CHAT.” Each field season, information is added to a large database which includes topside and underwater photographs to keep track of individuals and document their reproductive and health status as well as social associations.ĭuring in-water dolphin encounters, experts record video and sound of the animals in an effort to decode dolphin communication. This “hands-off” approach allows Herzing and her team to gain the trust of the animals and study their natural behaviors. Since 1985 she has researched the animals’ social structure, behaviors and communication through non-invasive, in-water observation. Denise Herzing has dedicated her career to studying a community of wild Atlantic spotted dolphins that live in the shallow, crystal clear waters of the Bahamas.
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