Not sure - I'll see if there is a livecast and will let everyone know

Thank you @physiologyfish.bsky.social and Joel for organizing this trip - it was pretty amazing to come to JCU and to see your lab and Queensland!

That was an amazing time! I especially enjoyed the incredible, thoughtful and curious students I met. Thanks to the incredible rockstar @physiologyfish.bsky.social for arranging this and to JCU for hosting me!

Thanks Jodie! Being host by incredible scientists like you means a lot! JCU has a lot of first class faculty, students and staff!

Thank you! I remember that paper :) Your kind words mean a lot coming from a really important - and classy - organization :}

and finally - here is the link to the paper

zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Special thanks to collaborators Chhandak Bagchi (lead author), Fredrik Christiansen, Subhransu Maji, and Josh Medina. Thx also to the Center for Data Science at UMASS Amherst and various undergrads and CS students who helped with the project! 😀🦎

Results show that our model accurately tracks seasonal body condition changes. This automation can significantly reduce the time needed to calculate body conditions, enabling faster, large-scale whale health assessments. 🧵

Trained on 468 annotated images, the model processes 8,958 drone images with 99.2% success. It estimates body length with 0.85% error and volume with 6.88% error, significantly speeding up body condition estimation while maintaining accuracy. 🧵

I also want to acknowledge Aaron Olsen - who did the bulk of the 3D reconstruction on Emma the tiger shark - and Johnson Martin, who worked with Aaron. Thank you both! 😀

Special thanks to the following students for their amazing hard work on reconstructing 3D meshes from gopro footage

Will Nguyen (UMASS), Isabel French Luce (Amherst High), Liam Barry (Williston), and Josh Medina (UMASS). Special thanks also to Neil Hammerschlag for providing footage of Emma

Here are download links

Tiger shark
skfb.ly/puv8u
Epaulette Shark
skfb.ly/puv8x
Sand Tiger shark
skfb.ly/puv8x
Zebra shark
sketchfab.com/3d-models/mo...