Paul Roe
Dean Research at James Cook University
Paul Roe
Dean Research at James Cook University
Professor Paul Roe is Dean Researcher at James Cook University. His pioneering ecoacoustics research—including the Open Ecoacoustics project and the Australian Acoustic Observatory—continues full steam ahead, helping to shape the future of environmental monitoring through sound.
Previously, Paul was a full professor in the Science and Engineering Faculty at QUT in Brisbane, where he founded and led the Microsoft-QUT eResearch Centre—a collaboration with the Queensland State Government and Microsoft Research focused on smart tools for eResearch. He received his MEng from the University of York in 1987 and his PhD from the University of Glasgow in 1991.
Paul has published over 200 papers, secured more than $10 million in competitive research funding (half in category one research), and supervised more than 21 research students to completion. His interdisciplinary work ranges from large-scale ecological acoustic monitoring systems to innovative technologies that support communication and collaboration in remote Aboriginal communities. He is also the creator of the world’s first acoustic observatory to monitor biodiversity across Australia: acousticobservatory.org.
Upcoming conference sessions featuring Paul Roe
A Millenium of Choruses in the Cloud - An Ecoacoustics Odyssey
Ecoacoustics is transforming how we explore and understand our natural world by capturing the rich soundscape of our environment, from the songs of birds and the calls of frogs to the deep bellows of koalas. We’ve built the Australian Acoustic Observatory, a continent-wide network of hundreds of autonomous sound recorders, collecting the equivalent of over a thousand years of continuous audio. In this talk, I’ll share our journey of listening to nature at scale — and how we’re harnessing the power of cloud computing and artificial intelligence to reveal the health of Australia’s ecosystems.
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A Millenium of Choruses in the Cloud - An Ecoacoustics Odyssey
Ecoacoustics is transforming how we explore and understand our natural world by capturing the rich soundscape of our environment, from the songs of birds and the calls of frogs to the deep bellows of koalas. We’ve built the Australian Acoustic Observatory, a continent-wide network of hundreds of autonomous sound recorders, collecting the equivalent of over a thousand years of continuous audio. In this talk, I’ll share our journey of listening to nature at scale — and how we’re harnessing the power of cloud computing and artificial intelligence to reveal the health of Australia’s ecosystems.
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A Millenium of Choruses in the Cloud - An Ecoacoustics Odyssey
Ecoacoustics is transforming how we explore and understand our natural world by capturing the rich soundscape of our environment, from the songs of birds and the calls of frogs to the deep bellows of koalas. We’ve built the Australian Acoustic Observatory, a continent-wide network of hundreds of autonomous sound recorders, collecting the equivalent of over a thousand years of continuous audio. In this talk, I’ll share our journey of listening to nature at scale — and how we’re harnessing the power of cloud computing and artificial intelligence to reveal the health of Australia’s ecosystems.
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