Deadline Set for Metadata Input to IQOE Metadatabase for Ocean PAM

Submitted by eurban on Mon, 03/17/2025 - 13:48

QOE has been compiling metadata of ocean PAM recordings since early 2020. As of today, there are 3,875 public and 681 private records since 1999 that are one day or longer in duration, and 99,802 shorter recordings.

IQOE will close submission for the first metadata product on 30 April 2025. After this time, a DOI will be sought for the metadata product comprised of the short- and long-term public metadata, with all metadata providers listed as contributors to the product. An article will be written describing the metadata and submitted to a peer-reviewed journal.

Please submit or update your metadata using this form.

IQOE intends to update the database at least annually with additional metadata submitted.

Please contact me if you have any questions or suggestions about this process.

Best regards,

Ed Urban

IQOE Project Manager

ed.urban@scor-int.org

Status

IQOE is in its 9th year as a 10-year project and continues to implement of its Science Plan (available here). IQOE has successfully coordinated a variety of activities in ocean acoustics and bioacoustics through IQOE working groups on the use of acoustics to assess biodiversity, the importance of acoustic observations in the Arctic Ocean, standards for reporting ocean acoustic and bioacoustic data for IQOE, software for making acoustic observations comparable worldwide, and recommendations for implementation of an Ocean Sound Essential Ocean Variable for the Global Ocean Observing System. IQOE progress has been documented since June 2018 through IQOE Newsletters and since the beginning of the project through other products. IQOE identified 2020 as the Year of the Quiet Ocean because of evidence that ocean sound decreased because of decreases in human activities in the ocean due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Next Steps

Activities in 2024 will include actions to help implement the Ocean Sound Essential Ocean Variable Implementation Plan; continuation of new activities on low-cost ocean acoustic observing systems and expansion of the Open Portal to Underwater Sound (OPUS), implementation of the Global Library of Underwater Biological Sounds, sponsorship of the second World Ocean Passive Acoustic Monitoring Day; and meetings of IQOE working groups and Science Committee.