Intro
DARWIN is a software system which allows marine scientists to
maintain information for the study of various behavioral and
ecological patterns of bottlenose dolphins, Tursiops truncatus.
The software provides a graphical user interface to access a collection
of digital dorsal fin images along with textual information which describes
individual animals as well as relevant sighting data. Users may
query the system with the name of a specific individual or the
entire collection may be sorted and viewed based upon sighting
location, sighting date, or damage category. Alternatively, the
researcher may query a database of previously identified dolphin dorsal
fin images with an image of an unidentified dolphin's fin. DARWIN
responds with a rank ordered list of database fin images that most
closely resemble the query image.
News
October 10, 2009 The workshop entitled "Learning to effectively and efficiently use DARWIN," was held Saturday, October 10, prior to the 18th Biennial Conference on Marine Mammals, in Quebec City, Canada. Twenty-five researchers involved in the study of cetaceans attended the hands-on workshop. These researchers came from throughout the US and from many countries around the world including Australia, Brazil, Canada, Italy, Iceland, New Caledonia, Portugal, and Slovenia. They are involved in the study of a variety of cetacean species including bottlenose dolphins, common dolphins, white beaked dolphins, killer whales, sperm whales, and others. At the workshop, the participants used the software on their own computers running Windows XP, Vista, and Windows 7. Handouts from the workshop are available at: http://darwin.eckerd.edu/18thBiennialWorkshop.ppt
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