From: "Stephen Simpson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I am pleased to announce that we have had approved a special session at the
Ocean Sciences Meeting in Hawaii next February on Marine Acoustics. This
conference has a fantastically broad scope, and we hope to reflect that in our
session by attracting speakers from many different disciplines (see full advert
below). The common theme is Marine Acoustics, a subject that is increasingly
capturing the Worlds and the scientific community's attention.
There are many ways in which the marine environment and acoustics connect,
including:
* Shipping, drilling, mining, tourist and dive boats, dynamite
fishing and seismic testing all impacting on the natural
'soundscape'
* The essential use by marine mammals, and some fish and inverts
of sounds for communication and hunting
* Our increasing understanding of the importance of reef noise for
larval fish (and invertebrate?) navigation and orientation
* Researchers now using reef noises to detect, assess, classify
and monitor reefs, particularly in deep or turbid waters
* Navy and marine navigators needing to filter out reef noise to
enable detection of other sounds
The submission of abstracts should soon be active at the conference website:
http://www.agu.org/meetings/os06/
A more complete announcement is appended below.
I would be very grateful if you could pass this information on to anyone else
who you think would be interested.
Yours,
Steve Simpson
PS: Apologies for cross-posting.
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Dr. Stephen D. Simpson
Tropical Fish Ecologist, University of Edinburgh
Ashworth 2, Kings Buildings, EH9 3JT, UK
[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tel: +44 131 651 3637; Mob: +44 7900551883
Click for my website; Fax: +44 131 650 6564
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ADVANCE NOTICE
Marine Acoustics Special Session
2006 Ocean Sciences Meeting, Hawaii
The 13th Ocean Sciences Meeting, a joint meeting of ASLO, TOS and AGU, will be
held 20-24 February 2006 in Honolulu, Hawaii. The Program Committee is
developing a scientific program that will cover all topics in the area of Ocean
Sciences and one of these topics will be marine acoustics.
Session Summary
>From the use of hydroacoustic monitoring to detect and locate submarine
>earthquakes and volcanic activity to navigation cues for young reef fish
>finding their way home marine acoustics is a rapidly expanding area of
>research and development. Increasing concerns of the effects of underwater
>noise, both anthropogenic and natural, on the marine environment are raising
>marine acoustics to the forefront of scientific research and to government
>policy and legislation. This session will include the following:
* Acoustic tomography for water mass monitoring and climate
research
* Acoustic techniques for habitat classification, fish and
plankton abundance and biomass modelling
* Acoustic techniques advancing marine archaeology
* Seafloor acoustics, mapping topography and military surveying
for vessels and mines
* Acoustic remote sensing of the marine environment
* Underwater acoustic communication and navigation, people and
animals
* Advances in acoustic technologies
* The effect of anthropogenic and natural noise on marine life
Abstract submissions will be accepted on line in the very near future at
http://www.agu.org/meetings/os06/.
Convenors
Dr. Bev Mackenzie. Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology, 80
Coleman Street, London. EC2R 5BJ. UK. Tel: +44 020 7382 2628. Email: [EMAIL
PROTECTED] Please contact for more information.
Prof. A. Gavrilov. Centre for Marine Science & Technology, Curtin University of
Technology, GPO Box U1987, Perth WA 6845. AUSTRALIA. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Dr. Stephen Simpson. Institute of Evolutionary Biology. University of
Edinburgh, Edinburgh. EH9 3JT. UK. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dr. Angela Davis, CMarSci, FIMarEST. School of Ocean Sciences, University of
Wales, Bangor, Menai Bridge, Anglesey, LL59 5AB. UK. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
