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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#3C4043;letter-spacing:.15pt;background:white">Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#3C4043;letter-spacing:.15pt"><br>
<span style="background:white">Biology Department Seminar</span><br>
<span style="background:white">Wednesday, February 14, 2024 – 3:00 p.m. </span>
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<b><span style="background:white">Stacy DeRuiter</span></b><br>
<span style="background:white">Professor of Mathematics and Statistics, Calvin University
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<span style="background:white">and WHOI-MIT Joint Program Alumna</span><br>
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<b><span style="background:white">Behavioral Responses of Whales to Military Mid-Frequency Active Sonar</span></b><br>
<span style="background:white">Following several unusual mass stranding events associated with military exercises, the past several decades have witnessed massive research effort to understand whale behavioral responses to military mid-frequency active sonar
sounds. Within and alongside this effort, there has been rapid development of high-resolution animal-borne tags to record acoustics along with whale posture, movements and location. In addition to providing a window into behavioral responses to sonar, biologging
data have given exciting insights into the basic biology of species like beaked whales whose behavior was poorly understood before. But putting all the pieces together has also required creativity and interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral collaboration. We
have developed new software tools to process and share tag data, co-opted and even developed state-of-the-art statistical models to make sense of the data, and integrated best practices from disparate specialties like statistics, signal processing, and acoustic
propagation modeling, all while trying to keep the biological big picture in mind. This talk will try to tell the story of about 20 years of large collaborative behavioral response studies from a personal perspective, tracing my journey from a MIT-WHOI JP
student to a statistics professor, and highlighting the examples of </span></span><a href="https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Furl%3Fq%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fanimaltags.org%26sa%3DD%26source%3Dcalendar%26ust%3D1707317119563750%26usg%3DAOvVaw2K50Ka0zMoUEaTKFy7swvq&data=05%7C02%7Call-postdocs%40whoi.edu%7C2ed6eac7382642c31a4308dc2bd7eed4%7Cd44c5cc6d18c46cc8abd4fdf5b6e5944%7C0%7C0%7C638433454374071654%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=WP6u3NAI6swKaWjXTBUqznIJWDdcWFqWVQK0G%2F%2BO0sI%3D&reserved=0" originalsrc="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://animaltags.org&sa=D&source=calendar&ust=1707317119563750&usg=AOvVaw2K50Ka0zMoUEaTKFy7swvq" shash="iMxXrJhqpgATYzTipQ0mwt/qINW+ftt2U07wcmyrFkCiE9IPiUNqbHohMxJUBKZBcIQON4UUPROUxy8cetO5yQgz6GFybScq8B4e+5mVzPTXD/WW8gUeu9V9dgL/d0CfN5fF7NtpIOHj/eAPIQLAblTCG7ylVclUz2a6Y93SQM4=" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:blue;letter-spacing:.15pt;background:white">animaltags.org</span></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#3C4043;letter-spacing:.15pt;background:white">
and hierarchical hidden Markov models.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#3C4043;letter-spacing:.15pt"><br>
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<span style="background:white">HYBRID! In Person: Redfield Auditorium Zoom: </span>
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Meeting ID: 950 3058 5214 By phone: Find your local number: </span><a href="https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Furl%3Fq%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fwhoi-edu.zoom.us%2Fu%2FaeyaOewpUC%26sa%3DD%26source%3Dcalendar%26ust%3D1707317119563750%26usg%3DAOvVaw2xql_PrptIbuUhHzc4ynAE&data=05%7C02%7Call-postdocs%40whoi.edu%7C2ed6eac7382642c31a4308dc2bd7eed4%7Cd44c5cc6d18c46cc8abd4fdf5b6e5944%7C0%7C0%7C638433454374071654%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=NV50kNFV0NJy7wtG2FxXVY6VS9bJ8jFlXst8pgrhbxM%3D&reserved=0" originalsrc="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://whoi-edu.zoom.us/u/aeyaOewpUC&sa=D&source=calendar&ust=1707317119563750&usg=AOvVaw2xql_PrptIbuUhHzc4ynAE" shash="abNd73TEZ3uuJMys9dxTPSthYr8qGHL9yKJ5wazPSz2TuFAqZz2FuqnCpCeCDPxlTJJJM8JsTuid9xW4cwb0EBtc/4vqksSPUvtzWhPjW2ObtRMdIvyW3AlbumlTsufK0PKiB1i+x7CfqcQhMGBJwkyICdwzMAHV2BTPyY8de9I=" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:blue;letter-spacing:.15pt;background:white">https://whoi-edu.zoom.us/u/aeyaOewpUC</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#3C4043;letter-spacing:.15pt;background:white">Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#3C4043;letter-spacing:.15pt"><br>
<span style="background:white">Biology Department Seminar</span><br>
<span style="background:white">Thursday, February 15, 2024 – 12:00 noon </span><br>
<br>
<b><span style="background:white">Charles Konsitzke</span></b><br>
<span style="background:white">Associate Director of the Biotechnology Center and the Center for Genomic Science and Innovation, University of Wisconsin – Madison</span><br>
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<b><span style="background:white">Assessment of sedDNA and eDNA to Detect the Presence of Human Remains</span></b><br>
<span style="background:white">Sedimentary DNA (sedDNA) and Environmental DNA (eDNA) are traditionally used as environmental instruments for determining species, invasive species, contamination, microenvironments, and for other scientific motives. Investigating
and searching for human remains in a terrestrial or aquatic environment can be costly and time consuming. Our assessment of using sedDNA and eDNA as reconnaissance investigative tools is a new approach for analyzing and determining if humans have interacted
within this environment. With the advancement of sequencing technology and reagents, in parallel with the computational and bioinformatic analytical tools, the use of these technologies has allowed us to expand our earlier research of human DNA (hDNA) in
the environment, from a confirmation analytical approach to a quantifying the abundance of hDNA to determine probability and proximity of osseous location and/or historical presence. This includes the analysis of the microenvironment and taxonomy to reveal
human alterations of soil and sediment microbial communities.</span><br>
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<span style="background:white">Virtual only! Zoom: </span></span><a href="https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Furl%3Fq%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fwhoi-edu.zoom.us%2Fj%2F91440749670%26sa%3DD%26source%3Dcalendar%26ust%3D1707766798308552%26usg%3DAOvVaw18D6yXLy33ZR6aUgr_dlSl&data=05%7C02%7Call-postdocs%40whoi.edu%7C2ed6eac7382642c31a4308dc2bd7eed4%7Cd44c5cc6d18c46cc8abd4fdf5b6e5944%7C0%7C0%7C638433454374071654%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=jUsbP0UrHbn7XmnYPgcdLZpxfwOGZ4vmTn1qHBxEtUo%3D&reserved=0" originalsrc="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://whoi-edu.zoom.us/j/91440749670&sa=D&source=calendar&ust=1707766798308552&usg=AOvVaw18D6yXLy33ZR6aUgr_dlSl" shash="b1MPPamKtSlmuy1D9vmrNEEPkogENj7d0CUO0yTIC0PPzbWhIyTsdJ0SuFXlhMS9/INT5Kb5pIS6Wzg+Md02IJNxJfDZYCdI0/uJ71SZ3Eu3AmTP+bWpnNQLkT2y72SokUH7NgxeXuADrkR718pu+On1giO7YP7Coqfdx1NmH5w=" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;letter-spacing:.15pt;background:white">https://whoi-edu.zoom.us/j/91440749670</span></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#3C4043;letter-spacing:.15pt;background:white">
Meeting ID: 914 4074 9670 By phone: Find your local number: </span><a href="https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Furl%3Fq%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fwhoi-edu.zoom.us%2Fu%2FaBKhiSy9z%26sa%3DD%26source%3Dcalendar%26ust%3D1707766798308552%26usg%3DAOvVaw0uqQloTJQFlqHeajR35mbo&data=05%7C02%7Call-postdocs%40whoi.edu%7C2ed6eac7382642c31a4308dc2bd7eed4%7Cd44c5cc6d18c46cc8abd4fdf5b6e5944%7C0%7C0%7C638433454374227898%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=6AbeV00w9DfPXcUgwpAux0DgoeAsOssJPsVDqz9ABNA%3D&reserved=0" originalsrc="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://whoi-edu.zoom.us/u/aBKhiSy9z&sa=D&source=calendar&ust=1707766798308552&usg=AOvVaw0uqQloTJQFlqHeajR35mbo" shash="wTBv/BHjguwxsrHwe6aVecm+M3F+jQwr6pXljADIYp8LF/jcQHnJDtumf+WD7syvqthBgcsbW9MFwnl4W1l+0H6EUeAuzrV9c2QNb+M+7nhPEMYl5CKTYPmY067hbqo+3tpOQOIh04gcRQtZevdA1/3pGQDCqZYxNwNm+Gee9V0=" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;letter-spacing:.15pt;background:white">https://whoi-edu.zoom.us/u/aBKhiSy9z</span></a><span style="mso-ligatures:standardcontextual"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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