My board research interests included cultural transmission, vocal learning, geographic variation in vocalisations, bioacoustics, behavioural ecology, and cetacean ecology and acoustics. My current research is focused on the cultural transmission, vocal learning, and geographic variation in humpback whale song. I am also interested in vocal sequence analysis and advancement of related techniques, and using similarity in vocal displays to define population structures.

Garland, EC, Rendell, LE, Lilley, M, Poole, MM, Allen, J & Noad, MJ 2017, 'The devil is in the detail: quantifying vocal variation in a complex, multi-levelled, and rapidly evolving display' Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. Oña, J, Garland, EC & Denkinger, J 2017, 'Southeastern Pacific humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) and their breeding grounds : distribution and habitat preference of singers and social groups off the coast of Ecuador' Marine Mammal Science, vol 33, no. 1, pp. 219-235. DOI: 10.1111/mms.12365 Stafford, KM, Ferguson, MC, Hauser, DDW, Okkonen, SR, Berchok, CL, Citta, JJ, Clarke, JT, Garland, EC, Jones, J & Suydam, RS 2016, 'Beluga whales in the western Beaufort Sea: current state of knowledge on timing, distribution, habitat use and environmental drivers' Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, vol In press. DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2016.11.017 Mcloughlin, M, Ingram, S, Rendell, LE, Lamoni, LU, Kirke, A, Garland, EC, Noad, M & Miranda, E 2016, Adapting a computational multi agent model for humpback whale song research for use as a tool for algorithmic composition. in R Großmann & G Hajdu (eds), Proceedings SMC 2016. Proceedings of the SMC Conferences, Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg, pp. 274-280, 13th Sound and Music Computing Conference and Summer School, Hamburg, Germany, 31-3 September. Kershenbaum, A, Blumstein, D, Roch, M, Akçay, Ç, Backus, G, Bee, MA, Bohn, K, Cao, Y, Carter, G, Cäsar, C, Coen, M, De Ruiter, SL, Doyle, L, Edelman, S, Ferrer-i-Cancho, R, Freeberg, TM, Garland, EC, Gustison, M, Harley, HE, Huetz, C, Hughes, M, Bruno, JH, Ilany, A, Jin, DZ, Johnson, M, Ju, C, Karnowski, J, Lohr, B, Manser, M, McCowan, B, Mercado III, E, Narins, PM, Piel, A, Rice, M, Salmi, R, Sasahara, K, Sayigh, L, Shiu, Y, Taylor, C, Vallejo, EE, Waller, S & Zamora-Gutierrez, V 2016, 'Acoustic sequences in non-human animals: a tutorial review and prospectus' Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, vol 91, no. 1, pp. 13-52. DOI: 10.1111/brv.12160