For most students, MBARI’s summer internship program is an exciting opportunity to take a deep dive into the world of ocean research and engineering. But for Daniel DeLeon, an electrical engineering student at @Cal_Poly, the 10-week internship became much more than that. DeLeon’s research on whale sounds not only opened his eyes to the fascinating world of artificial intelligence and machine learning, it also inspired @Google to produce a beautiful video about DeLeon and his work.⠀ ⠀ Daniel worked with MBARI scientist John Ryan and engineer Danelle Cline studying sounds recorded by a deep-sea hydrophone attached to the Monterey Accelerated Research System (MARS) cabled observatory, 52 kilometers offshore of Moss Landing and 900 meters below the sea surface. He used Google’s TensorFlow machine learning software to automatically identify and extract calls from blue and fin whales from the thousands of hours of audio recorded by the hydrophone.⠀ ⠀ #SearchOn #TensorFlow #machinelearning #STEM #intern #summerinternship #MBARI #scienceandengineering #engineering #engineeringstudent #whalesongs #hydrophone #oceansound #oceansoundscape #SeaofSound #MBARIsummerintern