State of research and decisions

Recently, I fielded an email which suggested I look at Multi-Taper spectral analysis as a part of my project; I've done some reading about it and found a few useful pieces, such as an implementation in ANSI-C from 1995 by Jonathan M. Lees and Jeffrey Park, as well as an associated article hosted on Yale's servers here. However, as this is a wholly independent method, it falls outside the scope of my current project (but I'll add it to a wishlist for further development at another point.)