Paul Roe

Paul is Dean, Research at James Cook University where he overseas research infrastructure and research engagement. Paul is an expert in ecoacoustic monitoring; for the past 15 years his group has been researching how acoustics can be used to scale environmental monitoring. His team have developed novel hardware devices and software tools for collecting and analysing big acoustic data. This has included tools for recognising fauna calls, browsing and analysing whole soundscapes and for high throughput acoustics analysis. Paul leads the Australian Acoustic Observatory: a $1.8M Australian Research Council (ARC) LIEF project comprising more than 400 continuously recording sensors deployed over Australia. He is passionate about open science and also leads the $1M Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) Open Ecoacoustics project, which is developing an open ecoacoustics platform, tools, techniques and protocols to further ecoacoustic monitoring for conservation.