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Tom Mustill
Biography
Tom is a marine biologist, filmmaker & author.
His films with David Attenborough and Greta Thunberg, have won a BAFTA, two Webby’s and two Emmy nominations and been played on thr Pyramid stage of Glastonbury.
His book ‘How To Speak Whale’ was a New Yorker Book of the Year and translated into 14 languages.
He is a Research Fellow at FishEye Collaborative focussing on discoveries in underwater conversations and an ambassador for the charity Whale and Dolphin Conservation
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Tom Mustill & Fisheye Collaborative
About the talk
Sounds Fishy- Unexpected discoveries from the frontiers of underwater signal exploration
In 2015 biologist and wildlife filmmaker Tom Mustill was leapt onto by a humpback whale. After scientists used AI to identify the whale he spent three years researching what machine learning means for finding patterns in animal voices and behaviours for his book How To Speak Whale. Since then Tom has been drawn into this research himself, including with frontier technologies for discovering hidden underwater voices with FishEye Collaborative. In this talk Tom shares publicly for the first time their most recent findings and discusses their implications.
