Eonfusion customer profile - Charlie Huveneers, SARDI/Flinders Uni
Dr Charlie Huveneers has been researching shark ecology and biology for over 10 years. He completed his PhD at Macquarie University, Sydney investigating the impacts of fishing on wobbegong sharks in New South Wales. Since then, Dr Huveneers has worked for the Australian Acoustic Tagging and Monitoring System (AATAMS) deploying acoustic receivers and tagging marine organisms with acoustic transmitters. He is currently employed with the support of Marine Innovation South Australia (MISA) as a lecturer and shark ecologist at Flinders University and the South Australian Research and Development Institute (SARDI) Aquatic Sciences in Adelaide.
Dr Huveneers is involved a variety of projects using acoustic telemetry to determine movements and residence time of several marine species including wobbegongs, eastern and western blue gropers, snappers, and white sharks. The ability to visualize large amounts of data is a major challenge in his field of research, and he uses Eonfusion to overcome this challenge.
"Thanks to Eonfusion, I am able to visualize the detections recorded by the acoustic receivers which often add up to as many as several hundred-thousand detections. This large amount of data was previously very difficult to visualize." Dr Huveneers says.
Eonfusion also provides Dr Huveneers with the ability to integrate data collected at different frequencies (for example, temperature recorded every hour and detections obtained every 2-3 minutes).
"The ability to easily visualize detections and to link those to environmental variables (such as water temperature) provides valuable information which assists us in determining patterns of periodicity and necessary analyses" says Dr Huveneers.
Wobbegong detections and environmental variables.
