Project Proposal No. 2: Autonomous Acoustic Bouy Introduction: Sea’r is an autonomous buoy equipped with a hydrophone and a modem. It is to be deployed in areas that are acoustically interesting; for example areas where cetaceans can be found, or in the neighbourhood of noisy activities as shipping or pile driving. It can then be called to listen or record the ocean background noise. Alternatively, it can transmit in real-time detected acoustic signals to a server. Project Brief: The modem has a limited frequency bandwidth aimed at speech. In order to be able to transmit frequency components that are not included in this bandwidth an encoding and decoding process must be developed that will allow the real-time detection of interesting acoustic signals. The output of the project will be a board to be integrated in the autonomous buoy that will handle the signal detection, encoding and transmission through GSM or GPRS. Project team: 5 international students and 2 EPSEVG supervisors Time: February 18th to June 20th. Areas of study: Business Management Mechanical engineering Electrical engineering Electronics engineering Computer engineering. Telecommunications engineering. Company: Bioacoustics Application Lab. ( http://www.lab.upc.es/) Contact person: Michel André. Project academic supervisors: Michel André, Juan Vicenç Castell & Mike van der Schaar