Fearghal O'Donncha

Fearghal O'Donncha

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Academic Career Length

14Years (2013-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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1 July 2018 in Coastal Engineering
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SJScott James
Scott James
YZYushan Zhang
Yushan Zhang
FOFearghal O'Donncha
Fearghal O'Donncha

1 February 2015 in Journal of Marine Systems
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FOFearghal O'Donncha
Fearghal O'Donncha
Michael HartnettMichael Hartnett
Michael Hartnett
SNStephen Nash
Stephen Nash
LRLei Ren
Lei Ren
EREmanuele Ragnoli
Emanuele Ragnoli

1 October 2018 in Journal of Marine Systems
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FOFearghal O'Donncha
Fearghal O'Donncha
YZYushan Zhang
Yushan Zhang
BCBei Chen
Bei Chen
SJScott James
Scott James

1 January 2013 in Aquacultural Engineering
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FOFearghal O'Donncha
Fearghal O'Donncha
Michael HartnettMichael Hartnett
Michael Hartnett
SNStephen Nash
Stephen Nash

1 May 2020 in Journal of Computational Physics
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PHPhilipp Hähnel
Philipp Hähnel
JMJakub Mareček
Jakub Mareček
JMJulien Monteil
Julien Monteil
FOFearghal O'Donncha
Fearghal O'Donncha

28 July 2021 in Frontiers in Animal Science
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FOFearghal O'Donncha
Fearghal O'Donncha
CSCaitlin L. Stockwell
Caitlin L. Stockwell
SPSonia Rey Planellas
Sonia Rey Planellas
GMGiulia Micallef
Giulia Micallef
PPPaulito Palmes
Paulito Palmes
JGJon Grant
Jon Grant
Aquaculture, or the farmed production of fish and shellfish, has grown rapidly, from supplying just 7% of fish for human consumption in 1974 to more than half in 2016. This rapid expansion has led to the growth of Precision Aquaculture concept that aims to exploit data-driven management of fish production, thereby improving the farmer's ability to monitor, control, and document biological processes in farms. Fundamental to this paradigm is monitoring of environmental and animal processes within a cage, and processing those data toward farm insight using models and analytics. This paper presents an analysis of environmental and fish behaviour datasets collected at three salmon farms in Norway, Scotland, and Canada. Information on fish behaviour were collected using hydroacoustic sensors that sampled the vertical distribution of fish in a cage at high spatial and temporal resolution, while a network of environmental sensors characterised local site conditions. We present an analysis of the hydroacoustic datasets using AutoML (or automatic machine learning) tools that enables developers with limited data science expertise to train high-quality models specific to the data at hand. We demonstrate how AutoML pipelines can be readily applied to aquaculture datasets to interrogate the data and quantify the primary features that explains data variance. Results demonstrate that variables such as temperature, wind conditions, and hour-of-day were important drivers of fish motion at all sites. Further, there were distinct differences in factors that influenced in-cage variations driven by local variables such as water depth and ambient environmental conditions (particularly dissolved oxygen). The framework offers a transferable approach to interrogate fish behaviour within farm systems, and quantify differences between sites.