Dr. Xavier Mouy
Assistant Scientist
Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering
Contact Information:
Work: 508-289-2591
xavier.mouy@whoi.edu
Building: Bigelow 213B
Mailing Address:
266 Woods Hole Road, MS #11
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Woods Hole, MA 02543
Research Interests
-
- Passive acoustic monitoring of marine fauna for conservation and fisheries management
- Bioacoustics
- Signal processing and machine learning
- Passive acoustic localization
- Marine soundscapes and climate change
- Low-cost instrumentation
Selected Publications
- Mouy, X., Archer, S.K., Dosso, S., Dudas, S., English, P., Foord, C., Halliday, W., Juanes, F., Lancaster, D., Van Parijs, S., Haggarty, D., 2024. "Automatic detection of unidentified fish sounds: a comparison of traditional machine learning with deep learning". Front. Remote Sens. 5:1439995. https://doi.org/10.3389/frsen.2024.1439995
- Mouy, X., Black, M., Cox, K., Qualley, J., Dosso, S., Juanes, F., 2023. "Identification of fish sounds in the wild using a set of portable audio-video arrays," Methods in Ecology and Evolution. doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.14095
- Mouy, X., Black, M., Cox, K., Qualley, J., Mireault, C., Dosso, S., Juanes, F., 2020. "FishCam: A low-cost open source autonomous camera for aquatic research," HardwareX 8, e00110. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ohx.2020.e00110.
- Mouy, X., Rountree, R., Juanes, F., Dosso, S., 2018. "Cataloging fish sounds in the wild using combined acoustic and video recordings," Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 143, EL333-EL339. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.5037359.
Education
Ph.D.: Earth and Ocean Sciences, 2021. University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada.
M.Sc.: Oceanography, 2007. University of Quebec at Rimouski, Rimouski, QC, Canada.
B.Sc.: Acoustics, Signal Processing and Vibration, 2004. Le Mans University, Le Mans, France.
Biography
I am a bio-acoustician specializing in passive acoustic methods for monitoring marine life and climate change. My work combines signal processing, machine learning, and the development of low-cost instrumentation to support marine conservation and fisheries management. Before joining the WHOI Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering department in 2024, I spent three years as a Research Acoustician at NOAA Fisheries in the Passive Acoustic Branch and 14 years at JASCO Applied Sciences as Project Scientist. I hold a PhD from the University of Victoria, Canada, where my research focused on creating hardware and software solutions to identify fish sounds in the wild using compact hydrophone arrays and video cameras (see my 3-Minute Thesis presentation here). I currently have projects in the Arctic, British Columbia, the Gulf of Maine and Australia.