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Simeon Quirinus Smeele is a tenure track researcher in the Department of Ecoscience at Aarhus University, Denmark, focusing on animal ecology and conservation. His primary research is centered on bats, an understudied order that plays a crucial role in Danish biodiversity. He is involved in developing tools for passive acoustic monitoring and analyzing camera trap images of hibernacula to quantify activity patterns and make abundance estimates of bat species. This includes creating data pipelines, training deep neural networks, and adapting statistical models to manage data collection uncertainties and covariates influencing bat activity and abundance. Recently, he has worked on quantifying bat activity in Danish offshore waters, collaborating with multiple consultants and organizations. His current projects include developing a camera trap neural network with funding from the ÅV Jensen Nature Foundation to monitor bat activity in the Mønsted Limestone Mines, a key hibernation location for near-threatened species in Denmark.
Interdisciplinary Centre Population Dynamics (CPop) • Aarhus, Denmark
Assisted in research projects focused on biodiversity and population dynamics.
Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior • Germany
Conducted doctoral research on animal behavior, particularly focusing on communication and cognition in various species.
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