Maddie Matei

Associate Scientist

Email: mm@smruconsulting.com

Maddie Matei is a Project Scientist at SMRU Consulting Europe. During her degrees at the University of St Andrews, she has gained experience regarding PAM analysis, animal behaviour, and visual monitoring of cetaceans. She is particularly interested in the development of automated detection and classification algorithms for marine mammal vocalisations and is currently working on an acoustic classifier for the echolocation clicks of the southern resident killer whales from British Columbia. Her undergraduate research project focused on the occurrence and foraging behaviour of delphinid species in Hawaii using autonomous recorders. Other research interests include marine mammal ecology and species distribution in relation to oceanography, communication and cognition, and responses to anthropogenic stressors.

  • Degrees and Education

    • 2020 University of St Andrews, BSc (Hons) Marine Biology

    • 2020 – present University of St Andrews, MSc (by Research) Biology (killer whale bioacoustics)

    Skills and Expertise

    Bioacoustics: PAMguard, Raven, Triton

    Statistical analysis and machine learning: R, Matlab

    Databases: SQLiteVisual monitoring: land-based cetacean surveysSpecialty

  • Key Projects

    • INANIN (INvestigating ANthropogenic noise INterference on marine mammal vocalizations in Northern Norway)

    • Passive Acoustic Monitoring Analyses – NNG and Seagreen.

  • Phone: +44 (0)1334 466011

    Email: mm@smruconsulting.com

    Mail: Scottish Oceans Institute

    East Sands

    University of St Andrews

    KY16 8LB

    Scotland