Form and function in aquatic bioacoustics
An international SNAK Ph. D. course
26 February – 2 March, 2007
3
ECTS points
Course description:
This class
focuses on underwater bio-acoustical techniques for laboratory-based studies of
sound production and hearing in aquatic animals. Underwater bioacoustics is best
learned by combining theory and practice. For a thorough understanding the
students need to obtain hands-on experience with animals, equipment, and
experimental methods. Lectures are likewise important to disseminate
experimental methodology as well as analysis techniques, and to pinpoint
situations where mistakes are commonly made. In this class the students are
introduced to the large functional variety by which animals produce and hear
sounds. Underlying concepts are treated in lectures by well-experienced
experimental bio-acousticians with a broad research background. The lectures are
combined with anatomical dissections of hearing and sound production organs.
Likewise, psychophysical concepts such as the hearing threshold, signal to noise
ratio, critical bands, are illustrated by psychological experiments, both on
humans and animals. We hope the students in this manner will obtain a deeper
understanding for both the fundamental mechanisms of function and form of the
use of sound in aquatic animals, and also to get introduced to modern techniques
used to bio-acoustic questions.
Requirements:
12 PhD students or post graduate researchers with a background in bioacoustics and a basic understanding of the recording and physics of underwater sound.
Application deadline 15th of December, 2006.
Successful
candidates will be notified by January 1st.
Fee:
500 Euros,
including room but not food.
For more
information and
applications, please visit www.snak.biology.sdu.dk or contact
Magnus Wahlberg, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SCHEDULE
MONDAY (
9.00-9.30
Introduction (MW)
9.30-10.15
Fundamentals of aquatic bioacoustics (MW)
10.45-11.30 The hair cell,
and the evolution of hearing underwater (JM)
11.45-12.30 Fish and
invertebrate hearing and sound production (MW)
14.00 – 18.00
A) Electron microscopy of
hair cells (JM)
B)
Dissection of inner ear, lateral line & sound production organs of fishes
(JM, MW & PTM)
TUESDAY (
9.00-9.45
Marine mammal sound production (PTM)
10.00-10.45 Hearing in marine
mammals (JT)
11.15-12.00 Physiological
instrumentation in aquatic bioacoustics (JCD)
13.00-13.45 Propagation of
underwater sound fields (MW)
14.00-18.00 Dissection of a
harbour porpoise and a harbour seal (JT&PTM)
20.00-23.00 Bus transfer to
Kerteminde
WEDNESDAY (KERTEMINDE,
DENMARK)
9.00-9.45
ABR instrumentation of fish, frogs, turtles and invertebrates
(JCD)
10.00-10.45 ABR
instrumentation for marine mammals (KB & AS)
11.00-11.45
Hydrodynamic field detection (MW)
12.00-12.45 Tucker
Davis fundamentals with Matlab interface (JCD)
14.00-18.00 C) ABR and
neural recording of a frog (JCD)
D) ABR of a porpoise (KB
& AS)
THURSDAY
(KERTEMINDE)
9.00-9.45
Signals and noise (KB)
10.00-10.45 Measuring
signals and noise (PTM)
11.15-12.00
Psychophysics and signal detection theory (TD)
12.15-13.00 Continued
signal detection theory (TD)
14.00-18.00 E)
Psychophysics and signal detection theory practical (JCD and
TD)
F) Signal and
Noise measurements and analysis (MW and PTM)
FRIDAY
(KERTEMINDE)
9.00-12.00
Hydrodynamic field detection practical (MW)
Cadaver Acoustics (LM)
Sound radiation from porpoise (PTM)
13.00-15.00 Class
evaluation and farewell
Teachers:
AS Alexander Ya Supin (
JCD Jakob C Dahlsgaard (SDU), JM Jørgen Mørup
(AU)
JT
LM
PTM Peter T Madsen (AU)
TD Torsten Dau
(DTU)
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