Sam Lapp — AI for biodiversity

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Nature Methods

Recognizing individual birds by their songs

Automated individual recognition enables "acoustic recapture" from passive acoustic monitoring data, so individual birds can be re-identified across years from recordings alone.

Paper Code Data Interactive app Science Audubon Medium

Dipper

Passive acoustic monitoring, end to end, in a desktop app.

Website

Aerial LiDAR

Machine learning models that interpret 3D habitat structure.

Selected Pubs

2026

Automated identification of individual birds by song enables multi-year recapture from passive acoustic monitoring data

Nature Methods

Paper Code Data Interactive app

2024

Aquatic Soundscape Recordings Reveal Diverse Vocalizations and Nocturnal Activity of an Endangered Frog

The American Naturalist

Paper

2023

OpenSoundscape: An open-source bioacoustics analysis package for Python

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Paper Docs Code

2023

A Quantitative Evaluation of the Performance of the Low-Cost AudioMoth Acoustic Recording Unit

Sensors

Paper Whitepaper

2022

Automated recognition of ruffed grouse drumming in field recordings

Wildlife Society Bulletin

Paper Code

2021

Automated detection of frog calls and choruses by pulse repetition rate

Conservation Biology

Paper Poster Code (Python)R implementation

Software

Dipper

Open-source desktop app for passive acoustic monitoring workflows

Docs Code

OpenSoundscape

Open-source Python package for bioacoustic analysis

Docs Code

Bioacoustics Model Zoo

A unified API for bioacoustic foundation models

Code

Ovenbird Song ID

Explore song variation across individual ovenbirds

Open

Acoustic Distance

How source volume, attenuation, and background noise set acoustic detection spaces

Open

Listen In

Tales of the Tender Cactus

Whale jazz and barnacle funk · The Deep Casual

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Turned On Neurons

Funky grooves from a home-made studio album · Doppler Poppins

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Ballade No. 1

Chopin's piano masterpiece, performed and recorded by me

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