Fwd: Vacancy Announcement: Acoustics Biologist ZP3/4 Permanent Federal Employee - NMFS/SEFSC/MMTD

[Melissa Soldevilla - NOAA Federal]

Hello,

We are re-advertising for a full-time permanent Federal employee to serve
as the *North Atlantic Right Whale Acoustics Biologist/Research Fish
Biologist *with extensive expertise and experience in oceanography and
bioacoustics, especially marine mammal bioacoustics. The position is within
the NMFS Southeast Fisheries Science Center, Marine Mammal and Turtle
Division -  Passive Acoustic Ecology Program.


The Direct Hire Authority announcement for the Research Fish Biologist,
ZP-3/4 position has been posted. *The announcement will open on 06/04/2024
and close on 06/19/2024.*


*DHA Announcement:*

*NMFS SEFSC-24-12424713-DHA*


*https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/793845600
*


Please share with your networks.

Thank you,
Melissa




Melissa Soldevilla
Research Fishery Biologist
Marine Mammal & Turtle Division
NOAA Southeast Fisheries Science Center
(305) 361-4238
75 Virginia Beach Drive
Miami, FL 33149

bioacoustics articles: J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 155(5), May 2024

[Mellinger, David K]

Bioacoustics articles in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 
155(5), May 2024

Hydroacoustic study of fin whales around the Southern Wake Island: Type, vocal 
behavior, and temporal evolution from 2010 to 2022
Juan Zhu, Lianxing Wen
J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 155, 3037 (2024)

What's special about human speech? A student exercise for comparing speech 
production between humans and chimpanzees
William P. Shofner
J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 155, 3206 (2024)

Frequency-dependent temporary threshold shifts in the Eastern painted turtle 
(Chrysemys picta picta)
Andria K. Salas, Alyssa M. Capuano, Craig A. Harms, Wendy E. D. Piniak, T. Aran 
Mooney
J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 155, 3254 (2024)

Copyright (c) 2024 Acoustical Society of America. Used on Bioacoustics-L by 
permission.

Post-Doc in Underwater Acoustics - Institute of Polar Sciences - CNR of Messina (Italy)

[Virginia Sciacca]

Dear all,

we are seeking a Post-Doc candidate to join our Bioacoustic and Sound 
Ecology group at the Institute of Polar Sciences (CNR-ISP) of Messina 
(Sicily - IT). The candidate will contribute to our research program, 
/KNOWhale – Knowledge improvement for the conservation of the endangered 
Mediterranean fin whale in Southern Italy/. This program focuses on 
studying the acoustic communication of the fin whale in the 
Mediterranean Sea.


The post-doc research topic is: *Underwater sound propagation study and 
assessment of noise impact on the acoustic communication of marine mammals.*


Candidates should have a PhD title (min. 3-year duration) and documented 
experience in at least one of the following fields: underwater 
acoustics, oceanography, modeling, or any other discipline related to 
the research topic.


The project is funded by Next Generation EU – Mission 4, under the call 
PRIN 2022 PNRR project n. P2022N9958. The fellowship will last for 17 
months, with the possibility of renewal depending on the availability of 
additional funds and current law.


Application deadline: June 17^th , 2024.

Interview date: June 24^th , 2024

Start foreseen by the end of June 2024

Call text and forms here https://www.urp.cnr.it/node/7220

English version here (Italian forms must be used for submission but 
personal information can be inserted in English and translated templates 
are available at the end of the pdf) 
https://www.urp.cnr.it/system/files/2024-05/ISP-AR01-2024-ME-PRIN2022PNRR_English.pdf 



Thank you

Virginia

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FW: UNH Post-doc in Ocean Acoustics

[Jennifer Miksis-Olds]

Dear Bioacoustics Community,
Update: Please use the link below. The previous link that was sent was an 
internal link.

Please see the job posting for a post-doc at UNH. This postdoc will be focused 
on biological and acoustical oceanography using passive acoustic recordings to 
characterize soundscapes synoptically with fish tag receivers and other 
oceanographic measurements. Please share with all those you feel may be strong 
applicants.
https://jobs.usnh.edu/postings/59915

Thank you,
Jennifer

Jennifer L. Miksis-Olds, Ph.D.
Director, Center for Acoustics Research & Education
Research Professor
Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping
8 College Rd
University of New Hampshire
Durham, NH 03824
j.miksiso...@unh.edu
V: 603-862-5147



Jennifer L. Miksis-Olds, Ph.D.
Director, Center for Acoustics Research & Education
Research Professor
Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping
8 College Rd
University of New Hampshire
Durham, NH 03824
j.miksiso...@unh.edu
V: 603-862-5147

UNH Post-doc in Ocean Acoustics

[Jennifer Miksis-Olds]

Dear Bioacoustics Community,
Please see the job posting for a post-doc at UNH. This postdoc will be focused 
on biological and acoustical oceanography using passive acoustic recordings to 
characterize soundscapes synoptically with fish tag receivers and other 
oceanographic measurements. Please share with all those you feel may be strong 
applicants.

https://jobs.usnh.edu/hr/postings/59915

Thank you,
Jennifer

Jennifer L. Miksis-Olds, Ph.D.
Director, Center for Acoustics Research & Education
Research Professor
Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping
8 College Rd
University of New Hampshire
Durham, NH 03824
j.miksiso...@unh.edu
V: 603-862-5147



Jennifer L. Miksis-Olds, Ph.D.
Director, Center for Acoustics Research & Education
Research Professor
Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping
8 College Rd
University of New Hampshire
Durham, NH 03824
j.miksiso...@unh.edu
V: 603-862-5147

New publication: Vocal convergence and social proximity shape the calls of the most basal Passeriformes, New Zealand Wrens

[I. Moran]

Hi Bioacoustics-L community,
On behalf of my co-authors, I'm pleased to share our publication "*Vocal
convergence and social proximity shape the calls of the most basal
Passeriformes, New Zealand **Wrens*". It is available open access from
*Communications
Biology* at the link below.

Moran, I.G. et al. Vocal convergence and social proximity shape the calls
of the most basal Passeriformes, New Zealand Wrens. Commun Biol 7, 575
(2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-024-06253-y 

Abstract
Despite extensive research on avian vocal learning, we still lack a general
understanding of how and when this ability evolved in birds. As the closest
living relatives of the earliest Passeriformes, the New Zealand wrens
(Acanthisitti) hold a key phylogenetic position for furthering our
understanding of the evolution of vocal learning because they share a
common ancestor with two vocal learners: oscines and parrots. However, the
vocal learning abilities of New Zealand wrens remain unexplored. Here, we
test for the presence of prerequisite behaviors for vocal learning in one
of the two extant species of New Zealand wrens, the rifleman (*Acanthisitta
chloris*). We detect the presence of unique individual vocal signatures and
show how these signatures are shaped by social proximity, as demonstrated
by group vocal signatures and strong acoustic similarities among distantly
related individuals in close social proximity. Further, we reveal that
rifleman calls share similar phenotypic variance ratios to those previously
reported in the learned vocalizations of the zebra finch, *Taeniopygia
guttata*. Together these findings provide strong evidence that riflemen
vocally converge, and though the mechanism still remains to be determined,
they may also suggest that this vocal convergence is the result of
rudimentary vocal learning abilities.

Kind regards,

Ines Moran, PhD
*Bioacoustics researcher*
*inesmoran.publicati...@gmail.com *
*Wildlife Bioacoustics Analytics*

New publication: Click detection rate variability of central North Pacific sperm whales from passive acoustic towed arrays

[Y Barkley]

Dear Bioacoustics-L community,

On behalf of my co-authors, I'm pleased to share our publication, "Click
detection rate variability of central North Pacific sperm whales from
passive acoustic towed arrays." The article is available through the
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America at the link below, or you can
contact me for a PDF.

Barkley, Y. M., Merkens, K. P. B., Wood, M., Oleson, E. M., & Marques, T.
A. (2024). Click detection rate variability of central North Pacific sperm
whales from passive acoustic towed arrays. *The Journal of the Acoustical
Society of America*, *155*(4), 2627–2635. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0025540


Abstract
Passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) is an optimal method for detecting and
monitoring cetaceans as they frequently produce sound while underwater. Cue
counting, counting acoustic cues of deep-diving cetaceans instead of
animals, is an alternative method for density estimation, but requires an
average cue production rate to convert cue density to animal density.
Limited information about click rates exists for sperm whales in the
central North Pacific Ocean. In the absence of acoustic tag data, we used
towed hydrophone array data to calculate the first sperm whale click rates
from this region and examined their variability based on click type,
location, distance of whales from the array, and group size estimated by
visual observers. Our findings show click type to be the most important
variable, with groups that include codas yielding the highest click rates.
We also found a positive relationship between group size and click
detection rates that may be useful for acoustic predictions of group size
in future studies. Echolocation clicks detected using PAM methods are often
the only indicator of deep-diving cetacean presence. Understanding the
factors affecting their click rates provides important information for
acoustic density estimation.



Best wishes,
Yvonne

-
Yvonne Barkley, Ph.D
. | she / her
Cetacean Acoustics Researcher
Cooperative Institute for Marine & Atmospheric Research
NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center
Protected Species Division | Cetacean Research Program
*Check out our field projects, SCOPE 2024

& HICEAS
2023 *

New publication: Common dolphin whistle responses to experimental mid-frequency sonar

[selene fregosi]

Hi Bioacoustics-L community,

On behalf of my co-authors, I'm pleased to share our publication "Common
dolphin whistle responses to experimental mid-frequency sonar". It is
available open access from PLoS ONE at the link below, or please contact me
for a PDF.

Casey, C, Fregosi, S, Oswald, JN, Janik, VM, Visser, F and Southall, BL.
(2024). Common dolphin whistle responses to experimental mid-frequency
sonar. PLoS ONE. 19(4): e0302035. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0302035


Abstract
Oceanic delphinids that occur in and around Navy operational areas are
regularly exposed to intense military sonar broadcast within the frequency
range of their hearing. However, empirically measuring the impact of sonar
on the behavior of highly social, free-ranging dolphins is challenging.
Additionally, baseline variability or the frequency of vocal
state-switching among social oceanic dolphins during undisturbed conditions
is lacking, making it difficult to attribute changes in vocal behavior to
anthropogenic disturbance. Using a network of drifting acoustic buoys in
controlled exposure experiments, we investigated the effects of
mid-frequency (3–4 kHz) active sonar (MFAS) on whistle production in
short-beaked (Delphinus delphis delphis) and long-beaked common dolphins
(Delphinus delphis bairdii) in southern California. Given the complexity of
acoustic behavior exhibited by these group-living animals, we conducted our
response analysis over varying temporal windows (10 min– 5 s) to describe
both longer-term and instantaneous changes in sound production. We found
that common dolphins exhibited acute and pronounced changes in whistle rate
in the 5 s following exposure to simulated Navy MFAS. This response was
sustained throughout sequential MFAS exposures within experiments
simulating operational conditions, suggesting that dolphins may not
habituate to this disturbance. These results indicate that common dolphins
exhibit brief yet clearly detectable acoustic responses to MFAS. They also
highlight how variable temporal analysis windows–tuned to key aspects of
baseline vocal behavior as well as experimental parameters related to MFAS
exposure–enable the detection of behavioral responses. We suggest future
work with oceanic delphinids explore baseline vocal rates a-priori and use
information on the rate of change in vocal behavior to inform the analysis
time window over which behavioral responses are measured.

Best,
Selene
-- 
*Selene Fregosi, PhD *(she/her)
selene.freg...@gmail.com | sfregosi.github.io

Notice of Availability, Public Comment Period on Draft Updated Marine Mammal Acoustic Guidance

[Amy SCHOLIK - NOAA Federal]

Greetings,


The National Marine Fisheries Service (NOAA Fisheries) is announcing the
availability of the “Update to: Technical Guidance for Assessing the
Effects of Anthropogenic Sound on Marine Mammal Hearing (Version 3.0):
Underwater and In-Air Criteria for Onset of Auditory Injury and Temporary
Threshold Shifts” (Draft Updated Technical Guidance) for a 45-day public
comment period until June 17, 2024 (starting May 3).

NOAA Fisheries has developed the Draft Updated Technical Guidance for
assessing the effects of anthropogenic sound on marine mammal species,
underwater and in-air, under NOAA Fisheries’s jurisdiction. This document
provides updated received levels and auditory weighting functions, or
acoustic criteria, based on the best available science, at which individual
marine mammals are predicted to experience changes in their hearing
sensitivity (either auditory injury or temporary threshold shift) for all
anthropogenic sound sources. The Draft Updated Technical Guidance is
intended to be used by NOAA Fisheries analysts and managers and other
relevant user groups and stakeholders, including other federal agencies,
when seeking to determine whether and how their activities are expected to
result in particular types of impacts to marine mammals via acoustic
exposure.

Electronic copies of the document containing the revised section of the
draft updated acoustic guidance can be found at:
https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/national/marine-mammal-protection/marine-mammal-acoustic-technical-guidance
and
the Federal eRulemaking Portal http://www.regulations.gov. Comments may
also be submitted via the Federal eRulemaking Portal (
http://www.regulations.gov, search for NOAA-NMFS-2024-0026).

Thank you for your interest in this document. For more information, please
contact Amy Scholik-Schlomer (amy.scho...@noaa.gov or 301 427-8449).

Amy R. Scholik-Schlomer, Ph.D*. *(she/her/hers)
Fishery Biologist (HQ Protected Resources Acoustic Coordinator)
*NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service*
*Office of Protected Resources*


*Permits and Conservation Division1315 East-West Hwy.Silver Spring, MD
20910*
(301) 427-8449
Email:
*amy.scho...@noaa.gov *
https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/insight/understanding-sound-ocean

DOSITS Webinar May 15, 2024 - UN Ocean Decade

[Ellen Bellagamba Fucile]

The second webinar in the DOSITS 2024 series will take place on May 15, 2024, 
at 12 pm EST. The webinar titled International Partnerships and Opportunities 
features Grace Smarsh, AAAS S Policy Fellow, Office of Naval Research. This 
webinar, and others in the 2024 series, will be hosted via Zoom and streamed 
live on YouTube. Participants can ask questions through either platform. All 
webinars will be recorded, and the webinar recordings will be available on the 
DOSITS website (and on Vimeo).

This webinar is the second in Discovery of Sound in the Sea (DOSITS) 

 free, four-part webinar series on underwater sound. Topics covered include 
Underwater Radiated Noise (April), UN Ocean Decade (May), Multibeam 
Echosounders (MBES) (September), and Impulsive Sound and Offshore Wind 
(October).

Each webinar will run approximately 60 minutes in length and will consist of a 
presentation by one or more experts followed by a period of facilitated 
discussion. The webinar series is open to all interested individuals; however, 
registration is required. For a registration link and other details, please 
visit the 2024 Webinar Series page on the DOSITS website: 2024 Webinar Series - 
Discovery of Sound in the Sea 
(dosits.org).

DOSITS will again offer a free Certificate of Professional Development in 
association with the 2024 Underwater Acoustics Webinar Series. For certificate 
requirements and other details, please visit the 2024 DOSITS Webinar Series 
page (link above).

Questions? = Please contact the DOSITS Team at 
dositswebi...@etal.uri.edu.

All topics will touch on marine mammals in some aspect.

bioacoustics articles: J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 155(3), March 2024

[Mellinger, David K]

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 155(3), March 2024

A statistical acoustics approach for estimating population-scale bowhead whale 
migration speed and direction
Aaron M. Thode, Susanna B. Blackwell
J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 155, 1969 (2024)
Bottom water hypoxia suppresses fish chorusing in estuaries
Joseph J. Luczkovich, Mark W. Sprague, Hans W. Paerl
J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 155, 2014 (2024)
Development of a machine learning detector for North Atlantic humpback whale 
song
Vincent Kather, Fabian Seipel, Benoit Berges, Genevieve Davis, Catherine 
Gibson, Matt Harvey, Lea-Anne Henry, Andrew Stevenson, Denise Risch
J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 155, 2050 (2024)
Application of a seismic network to baleen whale call detection and 
localization in the Panama basin-a Bryde's whale example
Jean Baptiste Tary, Christine Peirce, Richard W. Hobbs, Felipe Bonilla Walker, 
Camilo De La Hoz, Anna Bird, Carlos Alberto Vargas
J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 155, 2075 (2024)
Motion tracking of fish and bubble clouds in synthetic aperture sonar data
Timothy M. Marston, Bernard R. Hall, Christopher Bassett, Daniel S. Plotnick, 
Autumn N. Kidwell
J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 155, 2181 (2024)
Copyright (c) 2024 Acoustical Society of America. All rights reserved. Used on 
Bioacoustics-L by permission.

Announcing the 2024 edition of DCASE Few-shot Bioacoustic Event Detection

[Dan Stowell]

Dear all,

I'm pleased to announce the 2024 edition of the "Few-shot Bioacoustic
Event Detection" DCASE challenge is now launched! New datasets, new
baseline system, and more:
https://dcase.community/challenge2024/task-few-shot-bioacoustic-event-detection

Among other things, we've explicitly permitted the use of some specific 
pre-trained networks (they're named in a table on the webpage). The 
baseline system is new open-source code that you can build upon, derived 
from a strongly-performing system from the previous edition.


Please encourage students and other contacts to participate. Looking 
forward to seeing what happens this year!


Best
Dan Stowell, on behalf of the organising team
--
Dan Stowell http://www.mcld.co.uk/research/
Associate Professor of AI & Biodiversity
* Tilburg University https://csai.nl/
* Naturalis Biodiversity Centre http://naturalis.nl/
* Jheronimus Academy of Data Sciences https://www.jads.nl/

**4th African Bioacoustics Conference** 1 - 6 Sept 2024 Cape Town, South Africa

[African Bioacoustics Community]

Dear reader

I hope this email finds you well. We would very much appreciate it if you
could share this with your mailing list, thanks!

*Please circulate this email to relevant mailing lists, faculties and/or
people of interest:*



*Announcement: **4**th** African Bioacoustics Community Conference!*

*1 to 6 September **2024*
Breakwater Lodge, Cape Town, South Africa

We are very excited to announce that the 4th African Bioacoustics
Community conference is being held at the *Breakwater Lodge, Cape Town*,
from the *1st* *to the 6th of September 2024*. We anticipate that
the conference will be of interest to all bioacousticians. The themes of
the conference will include acoustic monitoring and conservation,
physiology and evolution, ecoacoustics, citizen science and more! For
information, please see our website:

https://africanbioacoustic.wixsite.com/abcommunity



We are also seeking *plenary speakers* who are preferably *living and
working* in *Africa*. Get in touch with us via our email address
africanbioacoust...@gmail.com if you want to be considered for a plenary
talk.



*Click* the l*ink* below to *submit your abstract* today to present a talk
or poster at the 4th African Bioacoustics Community Conference!
https://africanbioacoustic.wixsite.com/abcommunity/abstractsubmission




*Our website is live, and registration is open!Click here to register: *
https://africanbioacoustic.wixsite.com/abcommunity/registration
You can still join us even if you’re not presenting.

Bioacoustic articles in Animal behavior and Ethology January-March 2024

[Elke Burkhardt]

Dear all,

Below find bioacoustic articles in the Journals Animal Behaviour and Ethology 
published between January and March 2024.
All the best
Elke

Animal Behaviour, Volume 207, Pages i-ii, 1- 318 (January 2024)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/animal-behaviour/vol/207/suppl/C

Harbour seals use rhythmic percussive signalling in interaction and display,
Pages 223-234
Kinga Kocsis, Diandra Duengen, Yannick Jadoul, Andrea Ravignani,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2023.09.014

Where the fiddlers sing: fiddler crabs change their tunes depending on the 
context
Pages 37-45
Minju Kim, Seojeong Park, Hye Min Lee, Taewon Kim,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2023.10.006

Postcopulatory song as a mate-guarding tactic in the Pacific field cricket, 
Teleogryllus oceanicus
Pages 201-207
Lili Hagg, Corissa J. LaMere, Marlene Zuk,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2023.11.001

Acoustic variation and group level convergence of gelada, Theropithecus gelada, 
contact calls
Pages 235-246
Melissa C. Painter, Morgan L. Gustison, Noah Snyder-Mackler, Elizabeth Tinsley 
Johnson, Aliza le Roux, Thore J. Bergman
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2023.10.002

Knowing a fellow by their bellow: acoustic individuality in the bellows of the 
American alligator
Pages 157-167
Thomas Rejsenhus Jensen, Andrey Anikin, Mathias Osvath, Stephan A. Reber,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2023.11.009


Animal Behaviour, Volume 208, Pages i-ii, 1-136 (February 2024)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/animal-behaviour/vol/208/suppl/C

no bioacoustics articles in this issue


Animal Behaviour, Volume 209, Pages i-ii, 1-240 (March 2024)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/animal-behaviour/vol/209/suppl/C

Familiarity and homogeneity affect the discrimination of a song 
dialect
Pages 9-20
Heather Williams, Sarah L. Dobney, Clint W. Robins, D. Ryan Norris, Stéphanie 
M. Doucet, Daniel J. Mennill
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2023.12.011

Honest signalling of age in a territorial 
breeder
Brian A. Hoover, Walter H. Piper
Pages 169-177
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2024.01.004

Contrasting acoustic-space competition avoidance strategies in Afrotropical 
forest 
birds
Agata Staniewicz, Emilia Sokołowska, Michał Budka
Pages 191-202
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2024.01.006

Female chorus frogs delay mate choice under suboptimal environmental 
conditions
Mysia Dye, Alan R. Lemmon, Emily Moriarty Lemmon
Pages 215-226
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2023.11.012

Goats discriminate emotional valence in the human 
voice
Pages 227-240
Marianne A. Mason, Stuart Semple, Harry H. Marshall, Alan G. McElligott
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2023.12.008



Ethology, Volume 
130
 (1)  (January 2024)
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14390310/2024/130/1

Acoustic features of long-distance calls of wild cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus) 
are linked to the caller age from newborns to adults
Anna V. Klenova, 
Elena V. 
Chelysheva, 
Nina A. 
Vasilieva, Ilya 
A. Volodin, Elena 
V. Volodina
Pages e13406
https://doi.org/10./eth.13406

Seasonally variable and sex-specific motivation for cooperative resource 
defence in a duetting songbird-The Chubb's cisticola.
Pages: e13409
Michal Budka, Patryk Kokociński, Tomazs Stanislaw Osiejuk
https://doi.org/10./eth.13409


Ethology, Volume 
130
 (2) (February 2024)

Job Opening - Acoustic Project Lead Position at Maine Department of Marine Resources

[Murray, Anita]

Dear Bioacoustics Community,

Maine Department of Marine Resources (DMR) is hiring a Marine Resource 
Scientist II - Acoustic Project Lead. This is a supervisory position in our 
Passive Acoustics Program, which is a program within DMR's Division of Marine 
Mammal Research. This 
position will be part of a three-person management team that consists of the 
Passive Acoustics Program Lead and two Acoustic Project Leads. The Program and 
Project Leads will work together to outline the goals and timelines for 
multiple passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) projects that address critical data 
gaps and fulfil management needs. The Acoustic Project Leads will manage and 
conduct the fieldwork needed to maintain a large network of PAM sites for 
acoustic data collection. This position will also supervise a team of four 
Marine Resource Scientist I - Acoustic Analysts positions. In addition, this 
position will be responsible for disseminating information about the PAM 
projects by representing DMR at meetings and conferences as well as publishing 
peer-reviewed literature. This position may foster and manage collaborations 
with external partners for various PAM projects and seek grant funding 
opportunities as appropriate. This position is located at the DMR laboratory in 
West Boothbay Harbor, Maine, USA.

For more information, please see the job posting link below and the job 
description which is pasted below.

Link to the job posting: https://mainebhr.hire.trakstar.com/jobs/fk0viqd/

Feel free to contact me (anita.mur...@maine.gov) 
with any questions about this position.

Cheers,
Anita

Anita Murray, PhD (she/her)
Lead, Passive Acoustics Program
Division of Marine Mammal Research
Maine Department of Marine Resources
194 McKown Point Road
West Boothbay Harbor, ME., 04575, USA
anita.mur...@maine.gov

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Direct Hire Application forms can be obtained at the NRSC website: 
https://www.maine.gov/nrsc/jobs/application.shtml



If you are unable to apply online, please mail all application materials to:
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APPLICATIONS MUST BE RECEIVED BY:
April 11, 2024




Direct Hire Career Opportunity Bulletin
DEPARTMENT OF MARINE RESOURCES
State House Station #21, Augusta, ME 04333 - *Offices Located at 32 Blossom 
Lane, Augusta
ACOUSTICS PROJECT LEAD
(Marine Resource Scientist II)

Opening Date:
March 21, 2024
Closing Date:
April 11, 2024
Location:
West Boothbay Harbor*
Position #'s:
07200-2725
Position Type:
Full Time (Limited Period)
Class Code:
9363
Grade/Salary:
Grade 25 (Supervisory) - $58,801.60 - $79,851.20/Annually
(*This includes the 5.5% salary adjustment)


BRIEF JOB DESCRIPTION: The Department of Marine Resources (DMR) is seeking a 
candidate for a Marine Resource Scientist II - Acoustic Project Lead position. 
This position will be part of a three-person management team that consists of 
the Passive Acoustics Program Lead and two Acoustic Project Leads. The Program 
Lead and Project Leads will work together to outline the goals and timelines 
for multiple passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) projects that address critical 
data gaps and fulfil management needs. Working together the Acoustic Project 
Leads will manage and conduct the fieldwork needed to operate and maintain a 
large network of PAM sites for acoustic data collection. This position will 
also supervise a team of four Marine Resource Scientist I - Acoustic Analysts 
positions. Supervisory duties include delegating fieldwork and acoustic 
analysis tasks to staff, setting staff priorities and timelines, leading 
project meetings, overseeing data quality assurance/quality control, and 
conducting staff performance reviews. In addition, this position will be 
responsible for disseminating information about the PAM projects by 
representing DMR at meetings and conferences, publishing peer-reviewed 
literature, and making recommendations to DMR's policy group and Commissioner's 
Office. This position may foster and manage collaborations with external 
partners for various PAM projects as well as seek grant funding opportunities 
as appropriate.  Finally, the position will work across programmatic lines 
within the DMR's Division of Marine Mammal Research or the Division of Ecology 
and the 

DOSITS Educator Professional Development Opportunity

[Ellen Bellagamba Fucile]

The Discovery of Sound in the Sea (DOSITS) program hosts a resource rich 
website 
(https://dosits.org/)
 aimed at introducing users to the science and uses of Sound in the Sea by 
people and animals, with specific sections on how marine mammals use underwater 
sound and the potential effects of underwater sound on marine mammals.

To highlight and engage educators with the resources, DOSITS is launching a new 
(and free) online Educator Professional Development Certificate program. We are 
inviting the first cohort of educators to participate in the online program 
over the Spring of 2024. The program will be limited to 20 formal (grades 5-16) 
and informal science educators. We encourage marine mammal specialists from 
aquaria and whale watch operations to participate!

To participate, please register using the link below.  Registration is open 
until Monday, April 1, 2024. We will be in touch by Thursday, April 4th 
regarding registration status. DOSITS Educator Professional 
Development

Please note, we will host additional cohorts of education professionals over 
the next year, and we will reach out directly to registrants who were not 
selected for the first cohort when registration opens for the next program.

For details about the Professional Development content, please 
visit:https://dosits.org/resources-dosits-online-educator-professional-development-certificate-program/

The DOSITS Team

DOSITS Webinar April 2024

[Ellen Bellagamba Fucile]

The Discovery of Sound in the Sea (DOSITS) 

 Team is pleased to announce that it will again facilitate a free, four-part 
webinar series on underwater sound. Topics covered will include Underwater 
Radiated Noise, UN Ocean Decade, Multibeam Echosounders (MBES), and Impulsive 
Sound and Offshore Wind.

Each webinar will run approximately 60 minutes in length and will consist of a 
presentation by one or more experts followed by a period of facilitated 
discussion. The webinar series is open to all interested individuals; however, 
registration is required. For a registration link and other details, please 
visit the 2024 Webinar Series page on the DOSITS website: 2024 Webinar Series - 
Discovery of Sound in the Sea 
(dosits.org).

The first webinar in the 2024 series will take place on April 24, 2024, at 12 
pm EST. The webinar titled Underwater Radiated Noise from Vessels 
(SATURN)
 features Johann Bosschers from the Maritime Research Institute Netherlands 
(MARIN) and Christ de Jong from the Acoustics and Sonar Research Group, 
Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO). This webinar, 
and others in the 2024 series, will be hosted via Zoom and streamed live on 
YouTube. Participants can ask questions through either platform. All webinars 
will be recorded, and the webinar recordings will be available on the DOSITS 
website (and on Vimeo).

DOSITS will again offer a free Certificate of Professional Development in 
association with the 2024 Underwater Acoustics Webinar Series. For certificate 
requirements and other details, please visit the 2024 DOSITS Webinar Series 
page (link above).

Questions? = Please contact the DOSITS Team at 
dositswebi...@etal.uri.edu.

The Freshwater Sounds Archive

[Jack Greenhalgh]

*The Freshwater Sounds Archive*
[image: Freshwater Sound Archive Logo.png]

Introducing The Freshwater Sounds Archive, a new project led by Dr. Jack
Greenhalgh  in collaboration with
FishSounds  that seeks to create an
open-access global database of sounds produced by soniferous freshwater
species.

*Receive recognition in a forthcoming data paper *

Submit your species-specific or unidentified sounds to the archive now and
receive recognition for your contribution in a forthcoming data paper as a
co-author!

*What are the requirements for submission? *

The submitted sound(s) must be:

   - Recorded by a hydrophone in a freshwater habitat;
   - Produced by a freshwater species;
   - Submitted in a .wav format alongside appropriate metadata (see
the FishSounds
   website  for more).

*How do I submit my sounds to the archive?*

Click this link  and follow the
instructions posted on the FishSounds website. Initial submissions are
due *July
31st 2024 *and must be uploaded to The Freshwater Sounds Archive Google
Drive folder

.

*Questions?*

If you have any questions then feel free to contact Dr. Jack Greenhalgh via
jackhalg...@gmail.com


-- 
Dr Jack Greenhalgh
Postdoctoral Researcher at the Pyrenean Institute of Ecology (
http://www.ipe.csic.es/)
Consulting Expert in Scientific Research at Wild Connect (
https://www.wild-connect.com/)
Contribute to The Freshwater Sounds Archive (
https://fishsounds.net/freshwater.js)
*Tel:* +34  614 116 788 *Twitter:* @WildAudioJack


*Web:* https://www.jack-greenhalgh.com/

"Signal Analysis for Biodiversity" EUSIPCO 2024 (Lyon, France) - extended deadline

[Dan Stowell]

Dear all,

We are pleased to announce a special session on "Signal Analysis for 
Biodiversity" to be held at the EUSIPCO 2024 conference: August 26-30 
2024, Lyon, France.


The paper deadline has been extended to 10th March.

Details of our session:
http://mcld.co.uk/blog/2024/eusipco-2024-special-session-signal-analysis-for-biodiversity.html

Best wishes
Dan
--
Dan Stowell http://www.mcld.co.uk/research/
Associate Professor of AI & Biodiversity
* Tilburg University https://csai.nl/
* Naturalis Biodiversity Centre http://naturalis.nl/
* Jheronimus Academy of Data Sciences https://www.jads.nl/

PhD Opportunities in Acoustics

[James Windmill]

Hi,

We have a new programme of nature-inspired acoustics PhDs just funded here at 
the University of Strathclyde:
https://www.strath.ac.uk/whystrathclyde/news/2024/strathclydeawarded22mofdoctoralstudentshipsfromtheleverhulmetrust/

There will be 21 PhD studentships over the next 3 years, including 3 
studentships for non-UK (international fee) students. A proper advert with more 
details will be out soon, but in the meantime please pass this on to any 
students you feel may be interested.

Cheers,


James.


Prof James Windmill (he/him)
Director of the Centre for Ultrasonic Engineering
Director of the Leverhulme Doctoral School in Nature Inspired Acoustics
Co-Director of the EPSRC CDT in Future Ultrasonic Engineering
Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering
University of Strathclyde
Royal College Building
204 George Street
Glasgow
G1 1XW

Tel. +44 (0)141 548 2694
Fax. +44 (0)141 548 2950
Email. james.windm...@strath.ac.uk
www.cue.ac.uk



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Call for papers: Signal analysis for biodiversity

[Dan Stowell]

Dear all,

We're pleased to announce a special session on "Signal Analysis for 
Biodiversity" to be held at the EUSIPCO 2024 conference: August 26-30 
2024, Lyon, France.


Please consider submitting a paper. The deadline for paper submission is 
March 3rd 2024.


A full description of the session is at:
http://mcld.co.uk/blog/2024/eusipco-2024-special-session-signal-analysis-for-biodiversity.html

Best wishes
Dan Stowell
Aki Härmä
Ricard Marxer

--
Dan Stowell http://www.mcld.co.uk/research/
Associate Professor of AI & Biodiversity
* Tilburg University https://csai.nl/
* Naturalis Biodiversity Centre http://naturalis.nl/
* Jheronimus Academy of Data Sciences https://www.jads.nl/

post-doc in computational wave physics applied to dolphins' biosonar, univ of Padua

[Lapo Boschi]

Dear colleagues,

I hope this email finds you well. I am still *looking for a post-doctoral
fellow* to take the position described below, which will be funded for (at
least) two years approximately.

I kindly ask you to forward this to any potentially interested candidate.

Sincerely
Lapo Boschi


*the sonar of dolphins: numerical modeling of bone-conducted waves*

We are currently looking to fill a post-doc position in computational
acoustics/seismology at the University of Padua, Department of Geosciences.
The post-doctoral fellow that we shall hire will work towards the
adaptation of SPECFEM (or some alternative code for modeling the
propagation of elastic waves in complex media) to problems in bioacoustics.
Specifically, we shall study the conduction of waves in biological tissues,
with implications for the functioning of biosonar, and in general the
nature of the auditory system in toothed whales. This position is part of
"SWIM: aSsessing the Impact of offshore Wind turbines on Marine mammals in
the Adriatic sea", a collaborative project funded by the Italian Ministry
of University and Research, in the framework of the NextGenerationEU
program.

The position will be open until a suitable candidate is recruited: if
interested, please contact prof. Lapo BOSCHI (lapo.bos...@unipd.it) at your
earliest convenience.

All applications will be considered, but ideally we are looking for a
candidate with a background in the quantitative sciences (physics, applied
maths, engineering, computer science, geophysics) and, possibly, some
experience in numerical modeling/high performance computing.

Funded PhD position available: ‘Moving animals in a variable soundscape’

[Jakob Tougaard]

Dear colleagues,


As part of the Marie S. Curie Doctoral network SEASOUNDS, we are looking for 
strong candidates for the PhD position ‘Moving animals in a variable 
soundscape’. The call is now open on Aarhus University's website. You can find 
the announcement 
here.
 The deadline of application is Thursday 29 February 2024 at 23.59. 
Applications received after this deadline will not be considered. The PhD 
project is scheduled to start 1. November 2024.

The overall aim of SEASOUNDS is to link the physical characterization of marine 
soundscapes with impact on marine organisms. The particular PhD project at 
Aarhus University deals with linking noise exposure experienced by individual 
animals in the wild to the noise levels modelled by hindcasting soundscape 
models.


Note that EU eligibility requirements in Marie Curie Doctoral Networks apply 
and will be enforced strictly:

  *   Candidates already in possession of a doctoral degree at the date of the 
recruitment will not be considered eligible.

  *
Recruited researchers can be of any nationality but must not have resided or 
carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in Denmark for more than 
12 months in the 36 months immediately before their recruitment date (i.e. the 
period 1. November 2021 - 31. October 2024).

Looking forward to receive applilcations


Jakob Tougaard


*

Jakob Tougaard, Ph.D.

Professor in Marine Conservation Ecology

Department of Ecoscience, section for Marine Mammal Research

Aarhus University

Building 1131

C.F. Møller’s Allé 3

DK-8000 Aarhus

Denmark

Phone: +45 4098 4585 E-mail: j...@ecos.au.dk

CVR/VAT: 31119103

EAN: 5798000419988

SeaBASS 2024

[Jennifer Miksis-Olds]

We are pleased to announce this year's Marine Bioacoustics Summer School 
program (SeaBASS 2024).  SeaBASS provides the opportunity for currently 
enrolled graduate students interested in pursuing careers in marine 
bioacoustics to develop a strong foundation of both marine animal biology and 
acoustics from distinguished lecturers in the field. The goals of SeaBASS are 
to discuss important topics in marine bioacoustics, foster technical 
communication across disciplines, and promote mentoring and collaboration.



SeaBASS gives students an opportunity to learn from experts who will discuss a 
suite of topics not often offered at any one University.  The topics covered in 
the course include: Introduction to Underwater Sound, Sound Propagation, Marine 
Mammal Biology & Behavior, Fish Communication & Behavior, Hearing, 
Echolocation, Fisheries Acoustics/Active Acoustic Monitoring, and Passive 
Acoustic Monitoring.



WHEN:June 23-28, 2024

WHERE: In-Person; University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH

COSTS:  The costs of student attendance (room and board) will be 
funded from sponsor support.  There is no registration fee.  Full-time

participation of all participants is required.  Travel costs are the 
responsibility of the student, but travel assistance can be requested

during the application process.

APPLICATION:   The on-line application is available at 
https://eos.unh.edu/center-acoustics-research-education/courses/bioacoustic-summer-school-seabass

DEADLINE: The application deadline March 15, 2024



Please direct questions to Dr. Jennifer Miksis-Olds 
(j.miksiso...@unh.edu) or Dr. Susan Parks 
(spa...@syr.edu).



Jennifer L. Miksis-Olds, Ph.D.
Director, Center for Acoustics Research & Education
Research Professor
Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping
8 College Rd
University of New Hampshire
Durham, NH 03824
j.miksiso...@unh.edu
V: 603-862-5147

Fwd: Request for Public Comment, user feedback on Spreadsheet tool and Manual for 2018 Revised Technical Guidance

[Amy SCHOLIK - NOAA Federal]

*Amy R. Scholik-Schlomer, Ph.D.*
Fishery Biologist (Protected Resources Acoustic Coordinator)
NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service
Office of Protected Resources
Marine Mammal and Sea Turtle Conservation Division
1315 East-West Hwy.
SSMC3, Rm. 13605
Silver Spring, MD 20910
(301) 427-8449
Email:
*amy.scho...@noaa.gov *
https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/insight/understanding-sound-ocean


-- Forwarded message -
From: Amy SCHOLIK - NOAA Federal 
Date: Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 11:24 AM
Subject: Request for Public Comment, user feedback on Spreadsheet tool and
Manual for 2018 Revised Technical Guidance
To: 


NOAA Fisheries is opening a 45-day public comment period for user
feedback to help improve the usability of our optional User Spreadsheet
tool and User Manual associated with the 2018 revision of the Technical
Guidance (NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-OPR-59). The public comment period
will start Monday, September 24.



We issued an updated optional User Spreadsheet tool with additional
capabilities for applicants and a new companion User Manual for the
optional Spreadsheet tool that provides detailed instructions and examples
with the 2018 revision of the Technical Guidance in June 2018.



We are now seeking comment on how we can further refine the User Manual to
aid in the application and implementation of the 2018 Revised Technical
Guidance. Input from stakeholders provided during this public comment
period will inform future versions of the User Manual and the associated
optional User Spreadsheet tool.



Please note we are only soliciting comments on the User Manual and
associated optional User Spreadsheet tool. This public comment period is
not to solicit comments on the 2018 Revised Technical Guidance.



The 2018 Revision to the Technical Guidance (NOAA Technical Memorandum
NMFS-OPR-59), the updated optional User Spreadsheet tool, and the new
companion User Manual are available in electronic form via the Internet at
https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/national/marine-mammal-protection/marine-mammal-acoustic-technical-guidance
.


Public comments can be submitted via Regulations.gov:
www.regulations.gov/#!docketDetail;D=NOAA-NMFS-2018-0100


Thank you for your interest in the Technical Guidance. For more
information, please contact Amy Scholik-Schlomer (amy.scho...@noaa.gov or
301 427-8449).


*Amy R. Scholik-Schlomer, Ph.D.*
Fishery Biologist (Protected Resources Acoustic Coordinator)
NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service
Office of Protected Resources
Marine Mammal and Sea Turtle Conservation Division
1315 East-West Hwy.
SSMC3, Rm. 13605
Silver Spring, MD 20910
(301) 427-8449
Email:
*amy.scho...@noaa.gov *

Announcing: ICASSP 2019 Special Session "Wildlife Bioacoustics and Adaptive Signal Processing"

[Dan Stowell]

Dear all,

We're happy to announce that at the IEEE ICASSP conference 2019 
(Brighton, UK), there will be a Special Session on:


   "Wildlife Bioacoustics and Adaptive Signal Processing"

Chaired by Dan Stowell, Naomi Harte and Theo Damoulas.

https://2019.ieeeicassp.org/program#special-sessions

Full papers (4+1 pages) should be submitted according to the main ICASSP 
submission schedule - paper deadline Oct 29th.


For more details, please see the website link above.

Best
Dan Stowell on behalf of all the chairs

--
Dan Stowell
Senior Researcher
Machine Listening Lab
Centre for Digital Music
Queen Mary, University of London
Mile End Road, London E1 4NS
http://www.mcld.co.uk/research/
http://machine-listening.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/

Results of Bird Audio Detection 2018

[Dan Stowell]

Dear all,

The DCASE Challenge 2018 results are officially released!

Here are the Bird Audio Detection results:
http://dcase.community/challenge2018/task-bird-audio-detection-results

Congratulations to the two prize winners - see webpage for details, 
including technical reports.


Our congratulations and thanks to all participants.

We will be discussing these outcomes in detail at the DCASE Workshop, 
19th and 20th November: http://dcase.community/workshop2018/


Best wishes,
Dan Stowell and the Bird Audio Detection challenge committee

--
Dan Stowell
Senior Researcher
Machine Listening Lab
Centre for Digital Music
Queen Mary, University of London
Mile End Road, London E1 4NS
http://www.mcld.co.uk/research/
http://machine-listening.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/

Re: >spectro(2018): best R spectrogram contest -- deadline extended up to 01/10/18

[Jérôme SUEUR]

The deadline to submit your code, sound and image has been extended up to the 
1st of October. 
Good luck! 
Best 
Jerome 



De: "Jérôme SUEUR"  
À: Bioacoustics-L@cornell.edu 
Envoyé: Mercredi 27 Juin 2018 13:50:23 
Objet: >spectro(2018): best R spectrogram contest 

-- sorry for cross-posting -- 

Dear all, 

It is my pleasure to announce the contest >spectro(2018) , a friendly and 
informal contest for the best spectrogram generated with R code. 

The spectrogram is a 2D/3D key visualisation tool for bioacoustics, 
ecoacoustics and other sound related disciplines. The spectrogram is not only 
useful for science, it can also be a nice graphical object with delicate shapes 
and colours. 

The aim of this contest is to share the beautiful sounds, R codes and 
spectrograms you may have in your files so that it can help others to produce 
nice graphics and figures. 

But overall, the idea is to join science, fun, and maybe the arts! 

Here are some information about the organization of the contest: 

. deadline : 15 September 2018 
. application: a single submission per candidate; send wav sound + R code + png 
image to jerome.su...@mnhn.fr with the email title ">spectro(2018)" 
. sound: .wav file / no limits, any recording (animal, habitat, voice, music, 
etc) or synthetic sound built with R 
. code: .r file / only within R language, any package but no call to external 
software, the code should be fully repeatable 
. image: static .png file / no limits in the choice of colour and size but 
should be readable on a web page 
. rights: you accept that your material appears on [ 
http://rug.mnhn.fr/seewave/ | seewave webpage ] 
. international voting committee: Fanny Rybak (France), Nadia Pieretti (Italy), 
Susan Fuller (Australia), Stefanie LaZerte (Canada), Tess Gridley (South 
Africa) 
. publication of the results: October-November 2018 
. prize: 1 printed sample of the book [ 
https://www.springer.com/fr/book/9783319776453 | Sound analysis and synthesis 
with R ] for the winner, 1 electronic version of the same book for the second 
and the third, kindly offered by [ https://www.springer.com/ | Springer, Berlin 
] 

Have fun and good luck! 

Jerome 

-- 
Institut Systematique Evolution Biodiversite (ISYEB) & Ecole Doctorale 227 
Museum national d Histoire naturelle 
CNRS, Sorbonne Universite, EPHE 
45 rue Buffon 
75005 Paris | France | + 33 1 40 79 33 98 
[ http://isyeb.mnhn.fr/SUEUR-Jerome | http://isyeb.mnhn.fr/SUEUR-Jerome ] 
[ https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jerome_Sueur | 
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jerome_Sueur ] 

BOOK Sound analysis and synthesis with R 
[ https://www.springer.com/fr/book/9783319776453 | 
https://www.springer.com/fr/book/9783319776453 ] 

new publication on underwater soundscapes

[Lobel, Phillip S]

re: new publication available

 "Underwater Soundscape Monitoring and Fish Bioacoustics: A Review”
has been published in Fishes and is available online (open source):

Abstract: http://www.mdpi.com/2410-3888/3/3/36
PDF Version: http://www.mdpi.com/2410-3888/3/3/36/pdf




Phillip Lobel, PhD
Professor of Biology
Biology Department
Boston University
5 Cummington St
Boston MA 02215

Bioacoustics StackExchange site

[Zsebok Sandor]

Dear All,

there is a proposal to launch a new *Bioacoustic related Question and
Answer site on StackExchange*!

https://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/119914/bioacoustics?referrer=qRU_e-ply28N5QfMOt5KEg2


It is in a starting phase and its surviving also depends on you!

If you like the idea to have a site for searching for solutions to your
bioacoustic problems and helping other colleagues, please join, give
question examples and vote for them!

cheers,
Sandor

Sandor Zsebok
research fellow

Behavioural Ecology Research Group
Eötvös Lorand University, Budapest

U.S. Navy Living Marine Resource Program Need Topics - call for pre-proposals

[Shoemaker, Mandy L CIV NAVFAC EXWC, EV31]

The U.S. Navy Living Marine Resources (LMR) applied research program is seeking 
pre-proposals in six topic areas related to underwater sound produced by human 
activities and its effects on marine life.  Topics include: 1) improving 
duration of medium-term telemetry tag attachment, 2) demonstration and 
validation of PAM-based density estimation methods using visually verified 
survey data, 3) investigation of the effects of cue rate and cue stability on 
PAM-based density estimation methods, 4) demonstration and validation of 
passive acoustic monitoring sparse arrays to estimate density of low-frequency 
whales over large spatial areas, 5) identifying monitoring priorities for 
studying the population consequences of disturbance on marine mammals, and 6) 
turtle temporary threshold shift feasibility study. 

Details regarding the need topics mentioned above, as well as the associated 
Appendices, can be found within the BAA (Solicitation # N3943018S2086) at 
www.neco.navy.mil, www.fbo.gov, or at 
http://navysustainability.dodlive.mil/environment/lmrproposals/. There is no 
specific format required for the pre-proposal, however, the information 
required in the pre-proposal is outlined in Appendix A -2018 Proposal 
Submission and Evaluation Guide. The pre-proposal should be consolidated into 
one single file and should not exceed 10 pages in length. All pre-proposals 
should be submitted via email to exwc_lmr_prog...@navy.mil. Pre-proposals 
pertaining to these need topics will be accepted until 11:59 PM PST on 22 
October 2018. If invited, offerors will be asked to submit a full proposal.   

Anu Kumar
Program Manager
Living Marine Resources Program 

Mandy Shoemaker
Deputy Program Manager
Living Marine Resources Program 


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Re: >spectro(2018): best R spectrogram contest

[Jérôme SUEUR]

This is a kind reminder for those who would like to participate to this 
friendly contest. 
The deadline is the 15th of September. 
Best 
Jerome 



De: "Jérôme SUEUR"  
À: Bioacoustics-L@cornell.edu 
Envoyé: Mercredi 27 Juin 2018 13:50:23 
Objet: >spectro(2018): best R spectrogram contest 

-- sorry for cross-posting -- 

Dear all, 

It is my pleasure to announce the contest >spectro(2018) , a friendly and 
informal contest for the best spectrogram generated with R code. 

The spectrogram is a 2D/3D key visualisation tool for bioacoustics, 
ecoacoustics and other sound related disciplines. The spectrogram is not only 
useful for science, it can also be a nice graphical object with delicate shapes 
and colours. 

The aim of this contest is to share the beautiful sounds, R codes and 
spectrograms you may have in your files so that it can help others to produce 
nice graphics and figures. 

But overall, the idea is to join science, fun, and maybe the arts! 

Here are some information about the organization of the contest: 

. deadline : 15 September 2018 
. application: a single submission per candidate; send wav sound + R code + png 
image to jerome.su...@mnhn.fr with the email title ">spectro(2018)" 
. sound: .wav file / no limits, any recording (animal, habitat, voice, music, 
etc) or synthetic sound built with R 
. code: .r file / only within R language, any package but no call to external 
software, the code should be fully repeatable 
. image: static .png file / no limits in the choice of colour and size but 
should be readable on a web page 
. rights: you accept that your material appears on [ 
http://rug.mnhn.fr/seewave/ | seewave webpage ] 
. international voting committee: Fanny Rybak (France), Nadia Pieretti (Italy), 
Susan Fuller (Australia), Stefanie LaZerte (Canada), Tess Gridley (South 
Africa) 
. publication of the results: October-November 2018 
. prize: 1 printed sample of the book [ 
https://www.springer.com/fr/book/9783319776453 | Sound analysis and synthesis 
with R ] for the winner, 1 electronic version of the same book for the second 
and the third, kindly offered by [ https://www.springer.com/ | Springer, Berlin 
] 

Have fun and good luck! 

Jerome 

-- 
Institut Systematique Evolution Biodiversite (ISYEB) & Ecole Doctorale 227 
Museum national d Histoire naturelle 
CNRS, Sorbonne Universite, EPHE 
45 rue Buffon 
75005 Paris | France | + 33 1 40 79 33 98 
[ http://isyeb.mnhn.fr/SUEUR-Jerome | http://isyeb.mnhn.fr/SUEUR-Jerome ] 
[ https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jerome_Sueur | 
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jerome_Sueur ] 

BOOK Sound analysis and synthesis with R 
[ https://www.springer.com/fr/book/9783319776453 | 
https://www.springer.com/fr/book/9783319776453 ] 

Postdoctoral position in bioacoustics at Texas A Galveston

[Ana Sirovic]

Job Description: Post‐doctoral position is available at Texas A University 
Galveston for a highly motivated candidate with a strong background in 
bioacoustics.  The selected candidate will work on a project to develop density 
estimates of fin whale populations in Southern California from passive acoustic 
data. The candidate will be expected to develop automatic detection processes 
for known fin whale signals and estimate detection probabilities for those 
signals from previously collected recordings. These components will then be 
applied to abundance estimation using Distance sampling framework.

Required skills/qualifications:
o PhD in acoustics, oceanography, or a related discipline
o Computer competency including strong programming skills (Matlab, 
R, etc.)
o Experience with automatic detection and classification of 
acoustic signals
o Excellent written and oral communication skills, including proven 
ability in writing reports and scientific papers and oral presentations

Preferred skills:
o Knowledge of density estimation techniques
o Project management and supervisory experience

Expected start date is fall 2018. Review of applications will start immediately 
and will continue until a suitable candidate is identified. This position is 
for one year, with possibility of extension to two years given satisfactory 
performance during the first year.

For job posting details and to apply, visit 
https://tamus.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/TAMUG_External/job/Galveston-TAMUG/Postdoctoral-Research-Associate_R-011470




Ana Širović | Associate Professor
Department of Marine Biology | Texas A University Galveston
P.O. Box 1675 | Bldg 3029 Rm 248 | Galveston, TX 77553
Phone: +1-409-740-4847 | asiro...@tamug.edu

new publication: On the reliability of acoustic annotations and automatic detections of Antarctic blue whale calls under different acoustic conditions

[Emmanuelle Leroy]

Dear all,

We are pleased to announce the publication of the article "On the reliability 
of acoustic annotations and automatic detections of Antarctic blue whale calls 
under different acoustic conditions" in JASA, available at: 
https://doi.org/10.1121/1.5049803

Abstract:
Evaluation of the performance of computer-based algorithms to automatically 
detect mammalian vocalizations often relies on comparisons between detector 
outputs and a reference data set, generally obtained by manual annotation of 
acoustic recordings. To explore the reproducibility of these annotations, 
inter- and intra-analyst variability in manually annotated Antarctic blue whale 
(ABW) Z-calls are investigated by two analysts in acoustic data from two ocean 
basins representing different scenarios in terms of call abundance and 
background noise. Manual annotations exhibit strong inter- and intra analyst 
variability, with less than 50% agreement between analysts. This variability is 
mainly caused by the difficulty of reliably and reproducibly distinguishing 
single calls in an ABW chorus made of overlaying distant calls. Furthermore, 
the performance of two automated detectors, based on spectrogram correlation or 
subspace-detection strategy, is evaluated by comparing detector output to a 
“conservative” manually annotated reference data set, which comprises only 
analysts’ matching events. This study highlights the need for a standardized 
approach for human annotations and automatic detections, including a 
quantitative description of their performance, to improve the comparability of 
acoustic data, which is particularly relevant in the context of collaborative 
approaches in collecting and analyzing large passive acoustic data sets.

Kind regards,


Emmanuelle LEROY -- Research Fellow
MammalLab -- School of Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences
University of New South Wales -- 2052 -- Australia
emmanuelle.le...@unsw.edu.au

Fwd: PhD position in bat echolocation

[Holger Klinck]

Message posted on behalf of Peter Madsen (peter.mad...@aias.au.dk)

**

*3-year PhD in bat echolocation at Aarhus University*

I am seeking strong applicants for a 3-year PhD in studies of bat 
echolocation at the Bioacoustics Lab, Section for Zoophysiology, 
Department of Bioscience at Aarhus University, Denmark. The specifics of 
the PhD project will be defined in a close dialogue between the 
supervisor and the chosen applicant, but should be centered on the 
synergy between controlled studies of echolocation in the lab and field 
studies of bats foraging in the wild. Generally, we seek to address how 
echo streams inform vocal-motor adjustments during prey capture and 
navigation in the wild, and we pursue that goal by using data from the 
wild to inform studies in captivity where the echoic scene can be 
manipulated experimentally. We do not do invasive electrophysiology, but 
I encourage people with that background to apply anyway. We have a newly 
refurbished anechoic chamber and state-of-the-art housing facilities for 
bats in captivity, along with microphone arrays and a phantom target 
echo generating system. For field work we have microphone arrays, PAM 
systems and miniature onboard, ultrasound recording tags developed by 
Mark Johnson at University of St. Andrews.


The lab currently consists of 6 post docs, 6 PhD students, and 3 MSc 
students all working on echolocation in either bats or toothed whales, 
animal ecophysiology or biologging. The lab is social and international 
(half Danes, half internationals), and lab members help each other. I 
therefore seek driven, smart and hard-working personalities, but with 
strong social skills and a team playing attitude. For more information 
about the lab, please see www.marinebioacoustics.com 



The ideal candidate for this position should have a BSc or MSc in 
bioacoustics, neuro or sensory physiology or engineering.  Candidates 
with experience in working with bats, quantitative bioacoustics, signal 
processing and psychophysics will be favored, and basic knowledge of 
programming in Matlab/Python or similar is mandatory.


1/3 of the funding from the Faculty of Science is contingent on a strong 
academic track record of the candidate in the form of high grades and/or 
first author peer reviewed publications. If you don’t have either, 
please don’t apply.


This is a full-time, fixed-term position available for a period of 3 
years with a salary of approx. 4500 USD/month before tax. The start date 
is negotiable, but ideally early 2019. Interested candidates should 
email peter.mad...@bios.au.dk  with a 
2-page outline of research interests, CV, grades and two suggested 
references. The closing date for applications is September 10, 2018. 
Interviews will be held shortly thereafter.


Best

Peter T. Madsen

--
Dr. Holger Klinck
Director of the Bioacoustics Research Program
Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Cornell University

Faculty Fellow
Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future, Cornell University

Courtesy Assistant Professor
Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Oregon State University

Mailing address:
159 Sapsucker Woods Road
Ithaca, NY 14850, USA

Tel:+1.607.254.6250
Fax:+1.607.254.2460
Email:  holger.kli...@cornell.edu
Web:http://brp.cornell.edu

bioacoustics articles, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 144(1), July 2018

[Dave Mellinger]

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Volume 144, Issue 1 (article(s) published - 01 July 2018)

Comparison of maximum length sequence and randomized stimulation and averaging 
methods on the bottlenose dolphin auditory brainstem response
https://scitationinfo.org/1XPS-5SCZD-GSR8SL-38FNFG-0/c.aspx
Robert Burkard, James J. Finneran, and Jason Mulsow
J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 144, 308 (2018)

Classification of producer characteristics in primate long calls using neural 
networks
https://scitationinfo.org/1XPS-5SCZD-GSR8SL-38FNFL-0/c.aspx
Efstathia Robakis, Mrinalini Watsa, and Gideon Erkenswick
J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 144, 344 (2018)

Variability of the inter-pulse interval in sperm whale clicks with implications 
for size estimation and individual identification
https://scitationinfo.org/1XPS-5SCZD-GSR8SL-38FNFN-0/c.aspx
Anne Bøttcher, Shane Gero, Kristian Beedholm, Hal Whitehead, and Peter T. Madsen
J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 144, 365 (2018)

Acoustic characterization of exploration drilling in the Chukchi and Beaufort 
seas
https://scitationinfo.org/1XPS-5SCZD-GSR8SL-38FNEZ-0/c.aspx
Melanie E. Austin, David E. Hannay, and Koen C. Bröker
J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 144, 115 (2018)

PostDoc position, Bioacoustics Research Program, Cornell University

[Holger Klinck]

See attached...

Application materials should be sent to Academic Jobs Online at 
https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/11510. Applications will be 
accepted until September 30, 2018. The selection committee is chaired by 
Holger Klinck (hk...@cornell.edu), Director for the Bioacoustics 
Research Program.


--
Dr. Holger Klinck
Director of the Bioacoustics Research Program
Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Cornell University

Faculty Fellow
Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future, Cornell University

Courtesy Assistant Professor
Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Oregon State University

Mailing address:
159 Sapsucker Woods Road
Ithaca, NY 14850, USA

Tel:+1.607.254.6250
Fax:+1.607.254.2460
Email:  holger.kli...@cornell.edu
Web:http://brp.cornell.edu



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Bioacoustics articles- Marine Mammal Science: 34, 3 (July 2018)

[Jason Gedamke - NOAA Federal]

Marine Mammal Science
© Society for Marine Mammalogy
Volume 34, Issue 3 Pages 571 - 868, July 2018
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10./mms.v34.3/issuetoc?campaign=woletoc


ARTICLES

The influence of age and sex on the vocal repertoire of the Antillean
manatee (Trichechus manatus manatus) and their responses to call
playback (pages 577–594)
Rebecca Umeed, Fernanda Löffler Niemeyer Attademo and Bruna Bezerra
Version of Record online: 26 DEC 2017 | DOI: 10./mms.12467

Identifying behavioral states and habitat use of acoustically tracked
humpback whales in Hawaii (pages 701–717)
E. Elizabeth Henderson, Tyler A. Helble, Glenn Ierley and Steve Martin
Version of Record online: 5 JAN 2018 | DOI: 10./mms.12475

First record of humpback whale songs in Southern Chile: Analysis of
seasonal and diel variation (pages 718–733)
Sonia Español-Jiménez and Mike van der Schaar
Version of Record online: 8 FEB 2018 | DOI: 10./mms.12477

Description and classification of Indian Ocean humpback dolphin (Sousa
plumbea) whistles recorded off the Sindhudurg coast of Maharashtra,
India (pages 755–776)
Isha Bopardikar, Dipani Sutaria, Mihir Sule, Ketki Jog, Vardhan
Patankar and Holger Klinck
Version of Record online: 8 FEB 2018 | DOI: 10./mms.12479


NOTES

Feeding calls produced by solitary humpback whales (pages 851–865)
Michelle E. H. Fournet, Christine M. Gabriele, Fred Sharpe, Janice M.
Straley and Andrew Szabo
Version of Record online: 8 FEB 2018 | DOI: 10./mms.12485

PostDoc position @ Cornell

[Holger Klinck]

See attached. For more information please contact:

Kyle Wickings
Assistant Professor
Cornell University - NYSAES
Department of Entomology
Geneva, NY 14456

Email: kg...@cornell.edu

Phone: +1-315-787-2337

Web: http://blogs.cornell.edu/wickings/

--
Dr. Holger Klinck
Director of the Bioacoustics Research Program
Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Cornell University

Faculty Fellow
Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future, Cornell University

Courtesy Assistant Professor
Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Oregon State University

Mailing address:
159 Sapsucker Woods Road
Ithaca, NY 14850, USA

Tel:+1.607.254.6250
Fax:+1.607.254.2460
Email:  holger.kli...@cornell.edu
Web:http://brp.cornell.edu



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publication on the distribution of harbour porpoises in the Baltic Sea

[Jens Koblitz]

Dear colleagues,

on behalf of all authors, I like to announce the publication of the 
following new paper in Biological Conservation:


*Basin-scale distribution of harbour porpoises in the Baltic Sea 
provides basis for effective conservation actions*
Ida Carlén, Len Thomas, Julia Carlström, Mats Amundin, Jonas Teilmann, 
Nick Tregenza, Jakob Tougaard, Jens C. Koblitz, Signe Sveegaard, Daniel 
Wennerberg, Olli Loisa, Michael Dähne, Katharina Brundiers, Monika 
Kosecka, Line Anker Kyhn, Cinthia Tiberi Ljungqvist, Iwona Pawliczka, 
Radomil Koza, Bartlomiej Arciszewski, Anders Galatius, Martin Jabbusch, 
Jussi Laaksonlaita, Jussi Niemi, Sami Lyytinen, Anja Gallus, Harald 
Benke, Penina Blankett, Krzysztof E. Skóra, Alejandro Acevedo-Gutiérrez
Biological Conservation, Volume 226 
, 
October 2018, Pages 42-53


/Abstract:/ Knowledge on spatial and seasonal distribution of species is 
crucial when designing protected areas and implementing management 
actions. The Baltic Proper harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) 
population is critically endangered, and its distribution is virtually 
unknown. Here, we used passive acoustic monitoring and species 
distribution models to describe the spatial and seasonal distribution of 
harbour porpoises in the Baltic Proper. Porpoise click detectors were 
deployed over a systematic grid of 297 stations in eight countries from 
April 2011 through July 2013. Generalized additive models were used to 
describe the monthly probability of detecting porpoise clicks as a 
function of spatially-referenced covariates and time. During the 
reproductive season, two main areas of high probability of porpoise 
detection were identified. One of those areas, situated on and around 
the offshore banks in the Baltic Proper, is clearly separated from the 
known distribution range of the Belt Sea population during breeding 
season, suggesting this is an important breeding ground for the Baltic 
Proper population. We commend the designation of this area as a marine 
protected area and recommend Baltic Sea countries to also protect areas 
in the southern Baltic Sea and the Hanö Bight where additional important 
harbour porpoise habitats were identified. Further conservation measures 
should be carried out based on analyses of overlap between harbour 
porpoise distribution and potentially harmful anthropogenic activities. 
Our study shows that large-scale systematic monitoring using novel 
techniques can give important insights on the distribution of 
low-density populations, and that international cooperation is pivotal 
when studying transnationally migratory species.


DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2018.06.031 



Free download through this link until 14 September:
https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1XSBU1R~e720P 



Or just contact me and I will happily provide you with the PDF.

Best regards from the SAMBAH team :)

--
Dr. Jens C. Koblitz

BioAcousticsNetwork

Eichenallee 32 a
41469 Neuss
Germany

Cell: +49 (0) 1512-2236452

www.BioAcousticsNetwork.org

New publication on humpback whale vocal behavior

[Mercado, Eduardo]

?Greetings,

I'm pleased to announce a new open access paper, which presents an alternative 
theoretical framework for understanding the vocal behavior of humpback whales.

Mercado, Eduardo, III (2018) The Sonar Model for Humpback Whale Song Revised
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY   Volume: 9 Article Number: 1156   ?

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01156/full

Abstract

Why do humpback whales sing? This paper considers the hypothesis that humpback 
whales may use song for long range sonar. Given the vocal and social behavior 
of humpback whales, in several cases it is not apparent how they monitor the 
movements of distant whales or prey concentrations. Unless distant animals 
produce sounds, humpback whales are unlikely to be aware of their presence or 
actions. Some field observations are strongly suggestive of the use of song as 
sonar. Humpback whales sometimes stop singing and then rapidly approach distant 
whales in cases where sound production by those whales is not apparent, and 
singers sometimes alternately sing and swim while attempting to intercept 
another whale that is swimming evasively. In the evolutionary development of 
modern cetaceans, perceptual mechanisms have shifted from reliance on visual 
scanning to the active generation and monitoring of echoes. It is hypothesized 
that as the size and distance of relevant events increased, humpback whales 
developed adaptive specializations for long-distance echolocation. Differences 
between use of songs by humpback whales and use of sonar by other echolocating 
species are discussed, as are similarities between bat echolocation and singing 
by humpback whales. Singing humpback whales are known to emit sounds intense 
enough to generate echoes at long ranges, and to flexibly control the timing 
and qualities of produced sounds. The major problem for the hypothesis is the 
lack of recordings of echoes from other whales arriving at singers immediately 
before they initiate actions related to those whales. An earlier model of 
echoic processing by singing humpback whales is here revised to incorporate 
recent discoveries. According to the revised model, both direct echoes from 
targets and modulations in song-generated reverberation can provide singers 
with information that can help them make decisions about future actions related 
to mating, traveling, and foraging. The model identifies acoustic and 
structural features produced by singing humpback whales that may facilitate a 
singer's ability to interpret changes in echoic scenes and suggests that 
interactive signal coordination by singing whales may help them to avoid mutual 
interference. Specific, testable predictions of the model are presented.?

Cheers,

Eduardo Mercado III
Professor
Department of Psychology; Ecology, Evolution, & Behavior Program
University at Buffalo, SUNY
Buffalo, NY

DCASE 2018 Workshop - EXTENDED DEADLINE: August 6

[Juan Bello]

Dear all,
(please feel free to forward to anyone interested)

By popular demand, we have extended the submission deadline for the DCASE 2018 
workshop until August 6. Please note that the deadline for submitting to the 
challenges remains the same, July 31. See all details in the CfP below.

best wishes,

The DCASE 2018 team

---

DCASE 2018 Workshop on 
Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events

19-20 November 2018, Woking, Surrey, UK

** Paper submission: 6 August 2018 **

http://dcase.community/workshop2018/ 

DCASE 2018 Workshop is the third workshop on Detection and
Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events, being organized for the
third time in conjunction with the DCASE challenge. We aim to bring
together researchers from many different universities and companies with
interest in the topic, and provide the opportunity for scientific
exchange of ideas and opinions.

The technical program will include invited speakers on the topic of
computational everyday sound analysis and recognition, and oral and
poster presentations of accepted papers. In addition, a special poster
session will be dedicated to the DCASE 2018 challenge entries.

The results of the Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and
Events (DCASE) challenge 2018 will also be announced at the workshop.

** Call for papers **

We invite submissions on the topics of computational analysis of
acoustic scenes and sound events, including but not limited to:

Tasks in computational environmental audio analysis
- Acoustic scene classification
- Sound event detection and localization
- Audio tagging
- Challenges in real-life applications (e.g., rare events, overlapping
  sound events, weak labels)

Methods for computational environmental audio analysis
- Signal processing methods
- Machine learning methods
- Auditory-motivated methods
- Cross-disciplinary methods involving, e.g., acoustics, biology,
  psychology, geography, materials science, transports science

Resources, applications, and evaluation of computational environmental
audio analysis
- Publicly available datasets or software, taxonomies and ontologies,
  evaluation procedures
- Ethics, privacy, responsible research
- Applications
- Description of systems submitted to the DCASE 2018 Challenge

** Submission **

Papers are to be formatted as 4+1 pages. Papers are maximum 5 pages,
including all text, figures, and references, with the 5th page
containing only references.

For paper templates and instructions on how to submit, see
http://dcase.community/workshop2018/author-instructions 
 and
http://dcase.community/workshop2018/submission 
 

** Venue **

WWF Living Planet Centre, Woking, Surrey, UK

** Important dates:

Paper submission: 6 August 2018

Notification of acceptance: 17 Sept 2018

Workshop: 19-20 November 2018

** Chairs

General Chairs
Mark Plumbley, University of Surrey, UK
Christian Kroos, University of Surrey, UK 

Program Chairs
Gaël Richard, Télécom ParisTech, France
Juan Pablo Bello, New York University, USA

** More information

http://dcase.community/workshop2018/ 
dcase.works...@gmail.com 

==
Juan Pablo Bello
Associate Professor, Music Technology and Computer Science & Engineering
Director, Music and Audio Research Lab (MARL)
New York University
jpbe...@nyu.edu
https://wp.nyu.edu/jpbello/
http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/marl/

2019 Rose Postdoctoral Fellowships

[Holger Klinck]

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology invites applications for our 2019 Edward 
W. Rose Postdoctoral Fellowships.  For more information on this 
opportunity see attached pdf.


Cheers,

Holger

--
Dr. Holger Klinck
Director of the Bioacoustics Research Program
Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Cornell University

Faculty Fellow
Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future, Cornell University

Courtesy Assistant Professor
Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Oregon State University

Mailing address:
159 Sapsucker Woods Road
Ithaca, NY 14850, USA

Tel:+1.607.254.6250
Fax:+1.607.254.2460
Email:  holger.kli...@cornell.edu
Web:http://brp.cornell.edu



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CfP: DCASE 2018 Workshop, 19-20 Nov 2018 - Submission Deadline: 31 July

[m.plumbley]

Dear Bioacoustics people,
The submission system for the DCASE 2018 Workshop is open until 31 July. 
Please feel free to forward to anyone who may be interested. 
Best wishes, Mark Plumbley

---

 DCASE 2018 Workshop on 
 Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events

 19-20 November 2018, Woking, Surrey, UK

 ** Paper submission: 31 July 2018 **

 http://dcase.community/workshop2018/

DCASE 2018 Workshop is the third workshop on Detection and
Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events, being organized for the
third time in conjunction with the DCASE challenge. We aim to bring
together researchers from many different universities and companies with
interest in the topic, and provide the opportunity for scientific
exchange of ideas and opinions.

The technical program will include invited speakers on the topic of
computational everyday sound analysis and recognition, and oral and
poster presentations of accepted papers. In addition, a special poster
session will be dedicated to the DCASE 2018 challenge entries.

The results of the Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and
Events (DCASE) challenge 2018 will also be announced at the workshop.

** Call for papers **

We invite submissions on the topics of computational analysis of
acoustic scenes and sound events, including but not limited to:

Tasks in computational environmental audio analysis
 - Acoustic scene classification
 - Sound event detection and localization
 - Audio tagging
 - Challenges in real-life applications (e.g., rare events, overlapping
   sound events, weak labels)

Methods for computational environmental audio analysis
 - Signal processing methods
 - Machine learning methods
 - Auditory-motivated methods
 - Cross-disciplinary methods involving, e.g., acoustics, biology,
   psychology, geography, materials science, transports science

Resources, applications, and evaluation of computational environmental
audio analysis
 - Publicly available datasets or software, taxonomies and ontologies,
   evaluation procedures
 - Ethics, privacy, responsible research
 - Applications
 - Description of systems submitted to the DCASE 2018 Challenge

** Submission **

Papers are to be formatted as 4+1 pages. Papers are maximum 5 pages,
including all text, figures, and references, with the 5th page
containing only references.

For paper templates and instructions on how to submit, see
http://dcase.community/workshop2018/author-instructions and
http://dcase.community/workshop2018/submission 

** Venue **

WWF Living Planet Centre, Woking, Surrey, UK

** Important dates:

Paper submission: 31 July 2018

Notification of acceptance: 17 Sept 2018

Workshop: 19-20 November 2018

** Chairs

General Chairs
 Mark Plumbley, University of Surrey, UK
 Christian Kroos, University of Surrey, UK 

Program Chairs
 Gaël Richard, Télécom ParisTech, France
 Juan Pablo Bello, New York University, USA

** More information

http://dcase.community/workshop2018/
dcase.works...@gmail.com

==

--
Prof Mark D Plumbley
Professor of Signal Processing
Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP) 
University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7XH, UK
Email: m.plumb...@surrey.ac.uk

Now available: Bird audio detection overview paper

[Dan Stowell]

Dear all,

We've now put online a preprint of our article summarising the first 
Bird Audio Detection challenge.


"Automatic acoustic detection of birds through deep learning: the first 
Bird Audio Detection challenge"

https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.05812

For those working on the DCASE Task 3, this may offer some useful 
context. For others, hopefully a useful benchmark of the state of the 
art in deep-learning based audio detection.


Best wishes
Dan

--
Dan Stowell
Senior Researcher
Machine Listening Lab
Centre for Digital Music
Queen Mary, University of London
Mile End Road, London E1 4NS
http://www.mcld.co.uk/research/
http://machine-listening.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/

Subcommittee on Ocean Science and Technology (SOST) Need Topic - Call for Pre-proposals

[Shoemaker, Mandy L CIV NAVFAC EXWC, EV13]

The Subcommittee on Ocean Science and Technology (SOST), which is a partnership 
between the Office of Naval Research, Chief of Naval Operations N45, the Bureau 
of Ocean Energy Management, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric 
Administration, and the Marine Mammal Commission, is interested in funding 
research pertaining to the development of audiograms for mysticetes.  The 
Living Marine Resources (LMR) program, at the Naval Facilities Engineering and 
Expeditionary Warfare Center, is leading the solicitation process and is 
requesting pre-proposals for this topic. Details regarding the need topic can 
be viewed within the official Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) N39430-18-S-2067 
and associated Appendices at www.neco.navy.mil, www.fbo.gov, or at 
http://navysustainability.dodlive.mil/lmr/. There is no specific format 
required for the pre-proposal, however, the information required in the 
pre-proposal is outlined in Appendix A of the announcement. The pre-proposal 
should be consolidated into one single file and should not exceed 10 pages in 
length. All pre-proposals should be submitted via email to 
exwc_lmr_prog...@navy.mil. Pre-proposals for this topic will be accepted until 
11:59 PM PST on 31 August 2018.

If invited, offerors will be asked to submit a full proposal. Pre-proposals and 
full proposals will be shared with SOST representatives from each of the 
Federal agencies/entities listed above, in order for them to provide input on 
funding selections. Additionally, pre-proposals and full proposals evaluated 
through this BAA may be used to execute contracts or grants directly with the 
other Federal agencies/entities, separate from the LMR program.

Anu Kumar
Program Manager
Living Marine Resources Program

Mandy Shoemaker
Deputy Program Manager
Living Marine Resources Program






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Sound Analysis Workshop, Oct. 2018, Ithaca, NY, USA

[Liz D. Rowland]

The Bioacoustics Research Program (BRP) at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology will 
be presenting a five-day Introduction to Sound Analysis Workshop 15 - 19 
October 2018 at the Cornell Lab in Ithaca, New York, USA.

The workshop is intended primarily for biologists interested in analysis, 
visualization, and measurement of animal sounds. The workshop covers basic 
principles of spectrographic analysis and measurement of animal sounds, as well 
as specific tools and techniques in Raven 
Pro, a sound analysis application 
program developed by BRP.

Further information about the workshop and scholarship opportunity are 
available here.



Liz Rowland
Research Analyst
Elephant Listening Project
+1 (607) 254-2136
Elephant Listening Project

Call for Papers: DCASE 2018 Workshop on Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events, 19-20 Nov 2018 [Submission: 31 July]

[m.plumbley]

Dear Bioacoustics list, The DCASE workshop below may be of interest to anyone 
working on computational analysis of sound scenes and events. Please feel free 
to forward to any colleagues who may be interested. Best wishes, Mark Plumbley

---

DCASE 2018 Workshop on Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and 
Events

 19-20 November 2018, Woking, Surrey, UK

 ** Paper submission: 31 July 2018 **

 http://dcase.community/workshop2018/

DCASE 2018 Workshop is the third workshop on Detection and Classification of 
Acoustic Scenes and Events, being organized for the third time in conjunction 
with the DCASE challenge. We aim to bring together researchers from many 
different universities and companies with interest in the topic, and provide 
the opportunity for scientific exchange of ideas and opinions.

The technical program will include invited speakers on the topic of 
computational everyday sound analysis and recognition, and oral and poster 
presentations of accepted papers. In addition, a special poster session will be 
dedicated to the DCASE 2018 challenge entries.

The results of the Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events 
(DCASE) challenge 2018 will also be announced at the workshop.

** Call for papers **

We invite submissions on the topics of computational analysis of acoustic 
scenes and sound events, including but not limited to:

Tasks in computational environmental audio analysis
 - Acoustic scene classification
 - Sound event detection and localization
 - Audio tagging
 - Challenges in real-life applications (e.g., rare events, overlapping sound 
events, weak labels)

Methods for computational environmental audio analysis
 - Signal processing methods
 - Machine learning methods
 - Auditory-motivated methods
 - Cross-disciplinary methods involving, e.g., acoustics, biology, psychology, 
geography, materials science, transports science

Resources, applications, and evaluation of computational environmental audio 
analysis
 - Publicly available datasets or software, taxonomies and ontologies, 
evaluation procedures
 - Ethics, privacy, responsible research
 - Applications
 - Description of systems submitted to the DCASE 2018 Challenge

** Submission **

Papers are to be formatted as 4+1 pages. Papers are maximum 5 pages, including 
all text, figures, and references, with the 5th page containing only references.

Paper templates and the submission system will be available in early July 2018.

** Venue **

WWF Living Planet Centre, Woking, Surrey, UK

** Important dates:

Paper submission: 31 July 2018

Notification of acceptance: 17 Sept 2018

Workshop: 19-20 November 2018

** More information

http://dcase.community/workshop2018/
dcase.works...@gmail.com

==

--
Prof Mark D Plumbley
Professor of Signal Processing
Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP) 
University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7XH, UK
Email: m.plumb...@surrey.ac.uk


 DCASE 2018 - Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events
 Challenge: 30 March - 31 July 2018
 Workshop:  19 - 20 November 2018, Surrey, UK
 Paper submission deadline: 31 July 2018
 http://dcase.community/workshop2018/  http://dcase.community/challenge2018/

Prize announcement - Bird Audio Detection - DCASE 2018

[Dan Stowell]

Dear all,

We are pleased to announce two prize awards for the 2018 Bird Audio 
Detection challenge (running this year as part of the "DCASE" challenge 
community):

* £250: Highest-scoring open-source/reproducible method award
* £250: Judges' award for the method considered by the judges to be the 
most interesting or innovative.

This is to encourage development in the important and growing topic of 
automatic wildlife surveying.

Please share this with anyone you know who might be interested - 
students, programmers, people who may be interested in bird sound. The 
URL is:
http://dcase.community/challenge2018/task-bird-audio-detection

The evaluation datasets will be published very soon, and then the 
crucial period begins - when people can test their detection systems 
against unseen data!

Best wishes
Dan Stowell, on behalf of the organising committee



P.S. to learn more about the DCASE challenge and workshop see 
http://dcase.community/


-- 
Dan Stowell
Senior Researcher
Machine Listening Lab
Centre for Digital Music
Queen Mary, University of London
Mile End Road, London E1 4NS
http://www.mcld.co.uk/research/
http://machine-listening.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/

>spectro(2018): best R spectrogram contest

[Jérôme SUEUR]

-- sorry for cross-posting -- 

Dear all, 

It is my pleasure to announce the contest >spectro(2018) , a friendly and 
informal contest for the best spectrogram generated with R code. 

The spectrogram is a 2D/3D key visualisation tool for bioacoustics, 
ecoacoustics and other sound related disciplines. The spectrogram is not only 
useful for science, it can also be a nice graphical object with delicate shapes 
and colours. 

The aim of this contest is to share the beautiful sounds, R codes and 
spectrograms you may have in your files so that it can help others to produce 
nice graphics and figures. 

But overall, the idea is to join science, fun, and maybe the arts! 

Here are some information about the organization of the contest: 

. deadline : 15 September 2018 
. application: a single submission per candidate; send wav sound + R code + png 
image to jerome.su...@mnhn.fr with the email title ">spectro(2018)" 
. sound: .wav file / no limits, any recording (animal, habitat, voice, music, 
etc) or synthetic sound built with R 
. code: .r file / only within R language, any package but no call to external 
software, the code should be fully repeatable 
. image: static .png file / no limits in the choice of colour and size but 
should be readable on a web page 
. rights: you accept that your material appears on [ 
http://rug.mnhn.fr/seewave/ | seewave webpage ] 
. international voting committee: Fanny Rybak (France), Nadia Pieretti (Italy), 
Susan Fuller (Australia), Stefanie LaZerte (Canada), Tess Gridley (South 
Africa) 
. publication of the results: October-November 2018 
. prize: 1 printed sample of the book [ 
https://www.springer.com/fr/book/9783319776453 | Sound analysis and synthesis 
with R ] for the winner, 1 electronic version of the same book for the second 
and the third, kindly offered by [ https://www.springer.com/ | Springer, Berlin 
] 

Have fun and good luck! 

Jerome 

-- 
Institut Systematique Evolution Biodiversite (ISYEB) & Ecole Doctorale 227 
Museum national d Histoire naturelle 
CNRS, Sorbonne Universite, EPHE 
45 rue Buffon 
75005 Paris | France | + 33 1 40 79 33 98 
[ http://isyeb.mnhn.fr/SUEUR-Jerome | http://isyeb.mnhn.fr/SUEUR-Jerome ] 
[ https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jerome_Sueur | 
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jerome_Sueur ] 

BOOK Sound analysis and synthesis with R 
[ https://www.springer.com/fr/book/9783319776453 | 
https://www.springer.com/fr/book/9783319776453 ] 

2018 Revised Technical Guidance for Assessing the Effects of Anthropogenic Sound on Marine Mammal Hearing

[Amy SCHOLIK - NOAA Federal]

 NOAA Fisheries, per approval of the Secretary of Commerce, is releasing
the 2018 Revision to: Technical Guidance for Assessing the Effects of
Anthropogenic Sound on Marine Mammal Hearing – Underwater Thresholds for
Onset of Permanent and Temporary Threshold Shifts (NOAA Technical
Memorandum NMFS-OPR-59) in relation to section 10 of the Presidential
Executive Order (EO) 13795, “Implementing an America-First Offshore Energy
Strategy.” The Notice of Availability for the 2018 Revision to: Technical
Guidance is available here – (https://www.federalregister.g
ov/documents/2018/06/21/2018-13313/guidance-2018-revision-to
-technical-guidance-for-assessing-effects-of-anthropogenic-sound-on-marine) and
will publish on Thursday, June 21.



The Technical Guidance is a science-based document that compiles,
interprets, and synthesizes scientific literature to produce updated
acoustic thresholds for assessing the effects of underwater sound on marine
mammal hearing. It is intended for use by NOAA Fisheries’ managers and
other relevant user groups/stakeholders, when seeking to determine whether
and how their activities are expected to result in hearing impacts to
marine mammals via acoustic exposure. The Technical Guidance does not
represent the entirety of NOAA Fisheries’ comprehensive effects analysis
but rather serves as one tool to help evaluate a proposed action. We
recommend its use but note that user groups/stakeholders are not required
to use the Technical Guidance; other scientifically rigorous methods are
acceptable.



We completed a 45-day public comment period and hosted a Federal Agencies’
forum to gather feedback to inform our revision of the Technical Guidance
under section 10 of E.O. 13795. The comments received during the Technical
Guidance review affirmed that the Guidance is based on the best available
science while also providing suggestions to improve its implementation. No
commenter or federal agency suggested rescinding the document.



The acoustic thresholds for onset of permanent threshold shift (PTS) and
temporary threshold shifts (TTS) in marine mammal hearing for all sound
sources in the 2018 Revision (NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-OPR-59) will
remain the same as the 2016 Technical Guidance. Nevertheless, this 2018
revision of the Technical Guidance (NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-OPR-59)
addresses implementation and facilitates its use applicants, thereby
further advancing the policy in section 2 of E.O. 13795.



To accompany the revised Technical Guidance (NOAA Technical Memorandum
NMFS-OPR-59), NOAA Fisheries is issuing an updated User Spreadsheet tool
with additional capabilities for applicants and a new companion User Manual
for the Spreadsheet tool that provides detailed instructions, definitions,
and appropriate defaults to use when data are unavailable.



The 2018 Revision to the Technical Guidance (NOAA Technical Memorandum
NMFS-OPR-59), as well as the updated User Spreadsheet tool and the new
companion User Manual will be available in electronic form via the Internet
at https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/national/marine-mammal-pro
tection/marine-mammal-acoustic-technical-guidance.



We will continue to improve this Technical Guidance using the best
available science and refine the User Manual based on your input. NOAA
Fisheries plans to submit the User Manual for the Spreadsheet tool for
public comment (anticipated later in 2018) to gain your input and inform
future versions of the User Manual. Additionally, NOAA Fisheries will
re-evaluate implementation of the 24-h accumulation period in the Technical
Guidance by convening a working group to investigate means for deriving
more realistic accumulation periods (anticipated later in 2018). NOAA
Fisheries will also convene a working group (anticipated later in 2018) to
explore the impacts of sound on baleen whale hearing and incorporate
recommendations from this working group in future updates to the Technical
Guidance.



Thank you for your interest in the Technical Guidance. For more
information, please contact Amy Scholik-Schlomer (amy.scho...@noaa.gov or
301 427-8449).




*Amy R. Scholik-Schlomer, Ph.D.*
Fishery Biologist (Protected Resources Acoustic Coordinator)
NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service
Office of Protected Resources
Marine Mammal and Sea Turtle Conservation Division
1315 East-West Hwy.
SSMC3, Rm. 13605
Silver Spring, MD 20910
(301) 427-8449
Email:
*amy.scho...@noaa.gov
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/acoustics/
*

Sound analysis and synthesis with R: book

[Jérôme SUEUR]

- sorry for cross-posting -- 

Dear all, 

A new Springer book entitled "Sound analysis and synthesis with R" is now 
available as an eBook [ https://www.springer.com/fr/book/9783319776453 | here ] 
, and soon as a "true" book. 

The book was written so that anyone who has no knowledge in sound and/or R 
could read it. 

Most of the examples deal with bioacoustics and ecoacoustics. 

With the hope this can be useful, 

Best regards, 

Jerome 


-- 
Institut Systematique Evolution Biodiversite (ISYEB) & Ecole Doctorale 227 
Museum national d Histoire naturelle 
CNRS, Sorbonne Universite, EPHE 
45 rue Buffon 
75005 Paris | France | + 33 1 40 79 33 98 
[ http://isyeb.mnhn.fr/SUEUR-Jerome | http://isyeb.mnhn.fr/SUEUR-Jerome ] 
[ https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jerome_Sueur | 
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jerome_Sueur ] 

BOOK Sound analysis and synthesis with R 
[ https://www.springer.com/fr/book/9783319776453 | 
https://www.springer.com/fr/book/9783319776453 ] 

Cornell Sound Analysis Workshop, October 2018; scholarships available

[Russ Charif]

The Cornell Bioacoustics Research Program (BRP) will be offering a five-day 
introductory Sound Analysis Workshop at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology in 
Ithaca, NY, USA, 15 – 19 October 2018. The workshop is intended primarily for 
biologists interested in analysis, visualization, and measurement of animal 
sounds. The workshop covers basic principles of spectrographic analysis and 
measurement of animal sounds, as well as specific tools and techniques in Raven 
Pro, a sound analysis application 
program developed by BRP. Further details about the workshop are available 
here.

Two scholarship positions are available in this workshop for residents of low- 
and middle-income countries. Scholarships cover tuition for the workshop, 
morning and mid-day meals, lodging for six nights, and transportation to and 
from Ithaca. Applications for scholarships must be submitted no later than 22 
June. Further information about the scholarships, and application instructions, 
are available 
here.


___
Russ CharifCornell 
Lab of Ornithology
Bioacoustics Research Program   159 Sapsucker Woods Rd.
r.cha...@cornell.edu   
Ithaca, NY  14850
+01-607-254-2458

PhD opportunity: PAM of gadoid fish

[Denise Risch]

Dear All,

We would like to announce an opportunity to study gadoid fish sounds here with us on the west coast of Scotland.

Please share with  interested students.

Thanks,

Denise

 


https://www.uhi.ac.uk/en/research-enterprise/grad-school/studentships/passive-acoustic-monitoring-of-gadoid-fish/

 

bioacoustics articles in JASA 143(5), May 2018

[Dave Mellinger]

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Volume 143, Issue 5 (article(s) published - 01 May 2018)

Sounds of Arctic cod (Boreogadus saida) in captivity: A preliminary description
Amalis Riera, Rodney A. Rountree, Matthew K. Pine, and Francis Juanes
J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 143, EL317 (2018)

Cataloging fish sounds in the wild using combined acoustic and video recordings
Xavier Mouy, Rodney Rountree, Francis Juanes, and Stan E. Dosso
J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 143, EL333 (2018)

Finite element simulation of broadband biosonar signal propagation in the near- 
and far-field of an echolocating Atlantic bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops 
truncatus)
Chong Wei, Whitlow W. L. Au, Darlene R. Ketten, and Yu Zhang
J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 143, 2611 (2018)

Whistle description of Irrawaddy dolphins (Orcaella brevirostris) in Bay of 
Brunei, Sarawak, Malaysia
Hairul Masrini Muhamad, Xiaomei Xu, Xuelei Zhang, Saifullah Arifin Jaaman, and 
Azmi Marzuki Muda
J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 143, 2708 (2018)

Passive acoustic detection and estimation of the number of sources using 
compact arrays
Ildar R. Urazghildiiev, and David E. Hannay
J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 143, 2825 (2018)

Automatic fish sounds classification
Marielle Malfante, Jérôme I. Mars, Mauro Dalla Mura, and Cédric Gervaise
J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 143, 2834 (2018)

(C) Copyright 2018 Acoustical Society of America. Used by permission.

Special session on Fish and Marine Invertebrate Bioacoustics at the Acoustical Society of America and Canadian Acoustical Association Joint Conference in Victoria BC, Canada

[Xavier Mouy]

Dear colleagues,
 
Bruce Martin and I would like to invite you to submit an abstract for the 
special session on Fish and Marine Invertebrate Bioacoustics that we are 
organizing at the 176th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) 
joined with the 2018 Acoustics Week in Canada of the Canadian Acoustical 
Association (CAA) to be held in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada on 5–9 
November 2018.
 
This session will provide the opportunity for researchers to present and 
discuss the latest results on fish and marine invertebrate bioacoustics. New 
information on marine biological sound production and perception is welcomed, 
as well as innovations in measurement techniques.
 
Full information on the conference is available at 
http://acousticalsociety.org/176th-meeting-acoustical-society-of-america.
 
Abstracts are due Tuesday, May 29. You may submit an abstract here:
https://asa2018fall.abstractcentral.com/
 
When you submit your abstract, please indicate that you will be submitting to 
the "Animal Bioacoustics Technical Committee" and then choose the " Fish and 
Marine Invertebrate Bioacoustics" special session.
 
Looking forward to see you in Victoria !
 
Best,
Xavier Mouy and Bruce Martin, special session co-organizers.
 
 

Special Session on Bats vs. Dolphins at the Acoustical Society of America and Canadian Acoustical Association Joint Conference

[Laura Kloepper]

Hello colleagues,

We will be holding a special session titled "Anything You Can Do I Can Do
Better: Bat Versus Dolphin Biosonar" at the upcoming joint meeting of the
Acoustical Society of America and Canadian Acoustical Association held
November 5-9, 2018, in Victoria, Canada.

This will be a lively session in which presenters argue why their
suborder's biosonar is superior to the other. Presenters should also
include a comparison of bat and dolphins within their talk.

Abstracts are due Tuesday, May 29. You may submit an abstract here:

https://asa2018fall.abstractcentral.com/

When you submit your abstract, please indicate that you will be submitting
to the "Animal Bioacoustics Technical Committee" and then choose the
"Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better" special session.

You can find more information about the conference at:

https://acousticalsociety.org/176th-meeting-acoustical-society-of-america/


We look forward to seeing you there. Go team bat! Go team dolphin!

Sincerely,

Laura Kloepper (lkloep...@saintmarys.edu) and Brian Branstetter, special
session co-organizers.

International Congress for Neuroethology

[Holger Klinck]

Posted on behalf of Cynthia Moss

***

The International Congress for Neuroethology (ICN) and an Animal 
Biosonar Satellite Symposium will take place in Brisbane, Australia, 
July 15-20, 2018.

​​
​Attached is a flyer for the Animal Biosonar Satellite Symposium.  ​
The
​ICN
 website can be accessed through this link: 
http://www.icn2018.com/index.php . The 
ICN emphasizes comparative and evolutionary studies of brain and 
behavior and will be of broad interest to

​ASA members
​
.
The satellite symposium and ICN
meeting will provide exciting venue
​s​
for
​ASA
graduate student and postdoc
​ members​
to interact with
​​
​colleagues
 from around the world.
*Limited funds are available to assist ASA student and postdoc members 
with travel expenses.  To inquire about student/postdoc travel funds, 
please contact Cynthia Moss (cynthia.m...@jhu.edu 
).*


Thanks very much!

Best,

Cindy Moss


ICN Animal Biosonar Meeting_Brisbane_2018.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document

Special Session on Passive Acoustic Density Estimation at upcoming ASA Meeting in Victoria Canada

[Thomas Norris]

A special session on *Passive Acoustic Density Estimation*: Recent Advances
and Outcomes for Terrestrial and Marine Species “ is being held during the
upcoming 176th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America on 5-9 November
2018 to be held in the beautiful city of Victoria, British Columbia Canada.
  *Abstracts are due next Tuesday, the 29th of May*.

You can submit an abstract via this link:

https://asa2018fall.abstractcentral.com/

Please indicate the “Animal Bioacosutics Technical Committee” in the
pull-down menu on the abstracts submission page and also which session you
wish to present your talk in.  Choose the following PACS (classification
number) *43.80.*Ka :  Sound production by animals: mechanisms,
characteristics, populations, biosonar. Please note that poster sessions
are not expected to be held for this session, so only submit an abstract if
you are willing to give a talk.

For more details on the meeting including travel, accommodation and
registration fees, please follow the link below:

https://acousticalsociety.org/176th-meeting-acoustical-society-of-america/


I look forward to seeing (and hearing) many interesting talks
If you have questions about the session, please don’t hesitate to contact
me.
Tom Norris
thomas.f.nor...@bio-waves.com 
(ASA Animal Bioacoustics Technical Committee &  Session Co-chair)

and

Tiago Marques (Session Co-Chair) University of St. Andrews

Tom Norris
Bio-Waves inc.
www.bio-waves.net
thomas.f.nor...@bio-waves.net

Position Announcement: Collections Development Manager, Cornell Lab of Ornithology

[Russ Charif]

The following position is available in the Macaulay Library (ML) Program at the 
Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
For external applicants go to  
https://cornell.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CornellCareerPage/job/Ithaca-Tompkins-County/Collections-Development-Manager_WDR-00014401
Position will be posted until filled.
The full job description is attached.

The Lab of Ornithology is currently seeking a Collections Development Manager.  
Specific duties include:

Strategically grow the ML archive, increase rates of data collection and 
improve data quality. Lead activities and projects that work collaboratively 
with ML staff and other Lab programs, particularly Information Science, as well 
as outside partners.  Work with Program Manager and ML leadership to set 
overall strategies that align with ML’s mission and the Lab’s strategic 
priorities. In collaboration with the ML leadership, develop goals and 
priorities for collections development that will ensure the expansion of the ML 
archive to better serve clients; build strategic partnerships with institutions 
and individuals; provide guidance and contribute to the development of online 
tools and other mechanisms/strategies to facilitate acquisition of media 
specimens and data from contributors; expand ML’s training efforts to become 
state-of-the-art and global in scope; sustain a fleet of professional 
audiovisual field recording equipment for use in the field; and organize and 
conduct training workshops in collaboration with other Lab programs 
(particularly eBird and Bioacoustics Research Program) and partners. Basic 
functions and responsibilities include the following:


  *   Collections Development and Strategic Partnerships Development: In 
collaboration with ML’s Program Manager, Collections Management Leader, and 
other Lab staff, define strategic plans and projects to increase the rate of 
media submission and data quality. Facilitate communication, coordination and 
high-level collaboration with research groups, institutions, biological 
collections and media archives around the world, particularly with respect to 
development of biodiversity audiovisual collections.
  *   Outreach, Training Activities, and Research Facilitation: Design, 
implement, and conduct audiovisual field recording, media editing, data 
management, and recording analysis training programs and related educational 
resources.

  *   Fundraising: Initiate and/or substantially contribute to the 
identification, preparation and securing of grant proposals and other 
fundraising efforts in support of the Macaulay Library. This may include 
recruitment of corporate and institutional partnerships, in addition to 
foundations or government funding.

  *   Project Management: Provide day-to-day functional leadership by 
overseeing projects and managing workflows, including setting priorities, 
coordinating individual and group activities and managing activities to meet 
project deadlines. Facilitate communication within and across teams to ensure 
that project goals/deadlines are met.

Annual term appointment with possible renewal based on performance and 
available funding.  Based in Ithaca, NY.

Applicants to provide cover letter, resume, contact information for 3 
references.

Required Qualifications:

  *   Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent, in biological sciences, museum studies, 
information sciences or other relevant field.
  *   Less than 5 years of experience with a combination of: using/curating 
biological research collections, using audiovisual media for scholarly 
activities, large-scale digital asset management initiatives, and/or 
biodiversity informatics data management projects and initiatives.
  *   Advanced identification skills and experience with birds.
  *   Advanced sound and video recording, and/or photography experience.
  *   Must have a record of successfully meeting schedules and milestones of 
projects involving multiple stages, participants and stakeholders.
  *   Demonstrated record of success in large-scale project leadership and 
management.
  *   Experience with audiovisual media recording technology, manipulation and 
archival practices, with emphasis on birds and natural history.
  *   Experience using audiovisual media collections for research, formal and 
informal science education, and/or public outreach.
  *   Mastery of standard office management software (e.g. Word, Excel, 
PowerPoint , etc).
  *   Excellent organizational and time management skills.
  *   Must have ability to obtain and maintain a valid passport and driver’s 
license.
  *   Must be able to think critically and make a positive contribution to ML’s 
and the Cornell Lab’s mission.

Preferred Qualifications:

  *   PhD in biology or related field with at least 2 years of postdoctoral 
experience.
  *   Demonstrated track record of obtaining extramural funding.
  *   Experience mentoring and advising undergraduate students.
  *   Advanced knowledge and multiple years of 

Bird Audio Detection 2018 - baseline system released

[Dan Stowell]

Dear all,

The "Bird Audio Detection Challenge" has joined the DCASE community for 
2018. There are expanded datasets available, and the contest is open.


We have just published the baseline system for bird audio detection 
(Task 3 of DCASE 2018). Download the baseline here:

https://github.com/DCASE-REPO/bulbul_bird_detection_dcase2018

More info about the 2018 Bird Audio Detection task:
http://dcase.community/challenge2018/task-bird-audio-detection

Best wishes to everyone participating!

Best
Dan Stowell, on behalf of the DCASE Bird task organising team

--
Dan Stowell
Senior Researcher
Machine Listening Lab
Centre for Digital Music
Queen Mary, University of London
Mile End Road, London E1 4NS
http://www.mcld.co.uk/research/
http://machine-listening.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/

New datasets of bird flight call: BirdVox-full-night and BirdVox-70k

[Vincent Lostanlen]

*** apologies for any cross-postings ***


Dear colleagues,


We are happy to announce the release of two new bioacoustic datasets to
support research on detection and classification of bird sounds:


BirdVox-full-night: https://wp.nyu.edu/birdvox/birdvox-full-night/

62 hours of continuous audio from 6 sensors, with 35402 flight calls
annotated in time and frequency.  5.7GB in FLAC format + 6 CSV tables for
metadata.


BirdVox-70k: https://zenodo.org/record/1226427#.Wt46UWaZO8o

A derivative work of BirdVox full-night, containing 70804 audio clips of
duration 500 ms. Half of the clips are positive (contain one flight call at
the center of the clip), the other half are negative (containing background
noise or a non-flight-call acoustic event). 1.26GB in HDF5 format,
containing both data and annotations.


Further details about these datasets, including experimental results, are
provided in the following paper:


BirdVox-full-night: a dataset and benchmark for avian flight call detection


V. Lostanlen, J. Salamon, A. Farnsworth, S. Kelling, and J. P. Bello

In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal
Processing (ICASSP), Calgary, Canada, Apr. 2018.​


The full list of datasets released by the BirdVox projects to date --
summary below my signature -- which currently includes 4 additional
datasets to the ones listed above, is available here:
https://wp.nyu.edu/birdvox/resources/#datasets


The BirdVox project consists of Justin Salamon and Juan Pablo Bello from
NYU + Andrew Farnsworth, Steve Kelling, and myself, from the Cornell Lab of
Ornithology.


Sincerely,

Vincent Lostanlen, postdoctoral researcher at the Cornell Lab of
Ornithology and visiting scholar at New York University.

vincent.lostan...@nyu.edu


—


All datasets released by BirdVox are released under Creative Commons
Internation Attribution License (CC-BY 4.0). wp.nyu.edu/birdvox


CLO-43SD: a dataset for multi-class species identification in avian flight
calls . 5,428
labeled audio clips of flight calls from 43 different species of North
American woodwarblers (in the family Parulidae). The clips came from a
variety of recording conditions, including clean recordings obtained using
highly-directional shotgun microphones, recordings obtained from noisier
field recordings using omnidirectional microphones, and recordings obtained
from birds in captivity. Please cite our PLOS ONE 2016 paper when using
this dataset for research.


CLO-WTSP: a dataset for species-specific flight call identification for the
White-Throated Sparrow
. 16,703 labeled
audio clips captured by remote acoustic sensors deployed in Ithaca, NY and
NYC over the fall 2014 and spring 2015 migration seasons. Each clip is
labeled to indicate whether it contains a flight call from the target
species White-Throated Sparrow (WTSP), a flight call from a non-target
species, or no flight call at all.​ Please cite our PLOS ONE 2016 paper
when using this dataset for research.



*CLO-SWTH: a dataset for species-specific flight call identification for
the Swainson’s Thrush*


179,111 labeled audio clips captured by remote acoustic sensors deployed in
Ithaca, NY and NYC over the fall 2014 and spring 2015 migration seasons.
Each clip is labeled to indicate whether it contains a flight call from the
target species Swainson’s Thrush (SWTH), a flight call from a non-target
species, or no flight call at all. Please cite our PLOS ONE 2016 paper when
using this dataset for research.


BirdVox-full-night: a dataset for species-agnostic avian flight call
detection in continuous recordings
. 62 hours of continuous
audio from 6 sensors, with 35402 flight calls annotated in time and
frequency.  5.7GB in FLAC format + 6 CSV tables for metadata. Please cite
our ICASSP 2018 paper when using this dataset for research.


BirdVox-70k: a dataset for species-agnostic flight call detection
. A derivative work of
BirdVox full-night, containing 70804 audio clips of duration 500 ms. Half
of the clips are positive (contain one flight call at the center of the
clip), the other half are negative (containing background noise or a
non-flight-call acoustic event). 1.26GB in HDF5 format, containing both
data and annotations. Please cite our ICASSP 2018 paper when using this
dataset for research.


BirdVox-DCASE-20k: a dataset for bird audio detection in 10-second clips
. A derivative work of
BirdVox-full-night, containing almost as much data but formatted into
ten-second excerpts rather than ten-hour full night recordings. Out of the
20,000 recordings, 10,017 (50.09%) contain at least one vocalization
(either 

Job Opening: Collections Development Manager - Macaulay Library, Cornell University

[Janelle L. Morano]

Job Opening: Collections Development Manager
Macaulay Library, Lab of Ornithology, Cornell University

The Macaulay Library (ML) is the world’s largest (over 6,750,000 media assets) 
and oldest (started in 1929) scientific archive of biodiversity media 
recordings (audio, video and photos); it is the most heavily used archive of 
its kind in the world.

Specific duties include:
Strategically grow the ML archive, increase rates of data collection and 
improve data quality. Lead activities and projects that work collaboratively 
with ML staff and other Lab programs, particularly Information Science, as well 
as outside partners.  Work with Program Manager and ML leadership to set 
overall strategies that align with ML’s mission and the Lab’s strategic 
priorities. In collaboration with the ML leadership, develop goals and 
priorities for collections development that will ensure the expansion of the ML 
archive to better serve clients; build strategic partnerships with institutions 
and individuals; provide guidance and contribute to the development of online 
tools and other mechanisms/strategies to facilitate acquisition of media 
specimens and data from contributors; expand ML’s training efforts to become 
state-of-the-art and global in scope; sustain a fleet of professional 
audiovisual field recording equipment for use in the field; and organize and 
conduct training workshops in collaboration with other Lab programs 
(particularly eBird and Bioacoustics Research Program) and partners.

Basic functions and responsibilities include the following:

  *   Collections Development and Strategic Partnerships Development: In 
collaboration with ML’s Program Manager, Collections Management Leader, and 
other Lab staff, define strategic plans and projects to increase the rate of 
media submission and data quality. Facilitate communication, coordination and 
high-level collaboration with research groups, institutions, biological 
collections and media archives around the world, particularly with respect to 
development of biodiversity audiovisual collections.
  *   Outreach, Training Activities, and Research Facilitation: Design, 
implement, and conduct audiovisual field recording, media editing, data 
management, and recording analysis training programs and related educational 
resources.
  *   Fundraising: Initiate and/or substantially contribute to the 
identification, preparation and securing of grant proposals and other 
fundraising efforts in support of the Macaulay Library. This may include 
recruitment of corporate and institutional partnerships, in addition to 
foundations or government funding.
  *   Project Management: Provide day-to-day functional leadership by 
overseeing projects and managing workflows, including setting priorities, 
coordinating individual and group activities and managing activities to meet 
project deadlines. Facilitate communication within and across teams to ensure 
that project goals/deadlines are met.

Required Qualifications:

  *   Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent, in biological sciences, museum studies, 
information sciences or other relevant field.
  *   Less than 5 years of experience with a combination of: using/curating 
biological research collections, using audiovisual media for scholarly 
activities, large-scale digital asset management initiatives, and/or 
biodiversity informatics data management projects and initiatives.
  *   Advanced identification skills and experience with birds.
  *   Advanced sound and video recording, and/or photography experience.
  *   Must have a record of successfully meeting schedules and milestones of 
projects involving multiple stages, participants and stakeholders.
  *   Demonstrated record of success in large-scale project leadership and 
management.
  *   Experience with audiovisual media recording technology, manipulation and 
archival practices, with emphasis on birds and natural history.
  *   Experience using audiovisual media collections for research, formal and 
informal science education, and/or public outreach.
  *   Mastery of standard office management software (e.g. Word, Excel, 
PowerPoint , etc).
  *   Excellent organizational and time management skills.
  *   Must have ability to obtain and maintain a valid passport and driver’s 
license.
  *   Must be able to think critically and make a positive contribution to ML’s 
and the Cornell Lab’s mission.

Preferred Qualifications:

  *   PhD in biology or related field with at least 2 years of postdoctoral 
experience.
  *   Demonstrated track record of obtaining extramural funding.
  *   Experience mentoring and advising undergraduate students.
  *   Advanced knowledge and multiple years of experience using eBird.
  *   Fluency in Spanish highly preferred.

Annual term appointment with possible renewal based on performance and 
available funding.  Based in Ithaca, NY. Visa Sponsorship is not available for 
this position; not eligible to apply. Relocation assistance is 

Bioacoustic Articles in Animal Behaviour and Ethology March to May 2018

[Elke Burkhardt]

Dear all,

below you find the bioacoustic articles in Animal Behaviour and Ethology from 
March to May 2018.
Best, Elke


Animal Behaviour, Volume 137, e1-e2, 1-236 (March 2018)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/animal-behaviour/vol/137/suppl/C

Eavesdropping in an African large mammal community: antipredator responses vary 
according to signaller reliability
Pages 1-9
Meredith S. Palmer, Abby Gross

A lifetime of changing calls: North Atlantic right whales, Eubalaena glacialis, 
refine call production as they age
Pages 21-34
Holly Root-Gutteridge, Dana A. Cusano, Yu Shiu, Douglas P. Nowacek, ... Susan 
E. Parks

Birdsong characteristics are related to fragment size in a neotropical forest
Pages 45-52
Patrick J. Hart, Esther Sebastián-González, Ann Tanimoto, Alia Thompson, ... 
Michael Atencio-Picado

Song is not a reliable signal of general cognitive ability in a songbird
Original research article
Pages 205-213
Adrienne L. DuBois, Stephen Nowicki, Susan Peters, Karla D. Rivera-Cáceres, 
William A. Searcy

Birdsong performance studies: correcting a commentary on Cardoso and Atwell 
(2016)
Original research article
Pages e1-e2
Gonçalo C. Cardoso, Jonathan W. Atwell


Animal Behaviour, Volume 138, Pages e1-e14, 1-192 (April 2018)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/animal-behaviour/vol/138/suppl/C

The low-frequency acoustic structure of mobbing calls differs across habitat 
types in three passerine families
Pages 39-49
Alexis C. Billings

Is flight-calling behaviour influenced by age, sex and/or body condition?
Pages 123-129
Amy K. Tegeler, Kyle G. Horton and Sara R. Morris

The ‘hot male’ hypothesis: do female crickets prefer males with increased body 
temperature in mate choice scenarios?
Pages 75-84
Bettina Erregger, R. Matthias Hennig and Heiner Römer


Animal Behaviour, Volume 139, Pages e1-e8, 1-180 (May 2018)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/animal-behaviour/vol/139/suppl/C

Song type matching and vocal performance in territorial signalling by male 
swamp sparrows
Original research article
Pages 117-125
Irene A. Liu, Jill A. Soha, Stephen Nowicki Original research article


Ethology Volume 123, Issue 11 Pages i - i, 779 – 884 ( 
March
 2018)

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14390310/124/3
Behavioural responses of male ruffed grouse (Bonasa umbellus, L.) to playbacks 
of drumming displays
Nicholas P. 
O'Neil,
 Isabelle 
Charrier
 and Andrew N. 
Iwaniuk
Pages: 161-169

Honest error, precaution or alertness advertisement? Reactions to vertebrate 
pseudopredators in red‐nosed cuxiús (Chiropotes albinasus), a high‐canopy 
neotropical primate
Adrian A. 
Barnett,
 Tadeu de 
Oliveira
 Rafaela, Fatima Soares da 
Silva,
 Samara de Albuquerque 
Teixeira,
 Lucy M. 
Todd
 and Sarah A. 
Boyle
Pages: 177-187



Ethology Volume 124, Issue 4, Pages i-iii, 209-278 
(Apil
 2018)

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14390310/124/34
Who is in the neighborhood? Conspecific and heterospecific responses to 
perceived density for breeding habitat selection
Janice K. Kelly, Scott J. Chiavacci, Thomas J. Benson and Michael P. Ward
Pages: 269-278



Ethology Volume 124, Issue 5, Pages i-iii, 279-364 
(May
 2018)

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14390310/124/5
Call recognition and female choice in a treefrog with a multicomponent call
Mark V. Oliva, Kristine Kaiser, Jeanne M. Robertson , David A. Gray
Pages: 331-337





New Address/Neue Adresse

Elke Burkhardt

Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung
Ocean Acoustics Lab
Building G
Klußmannstraße 3d
D- 27570 Bremerhaven

Email: elke.burkha...@awi.de
Fon:  +49-471-4831-1861
Fax:  +49-471-4831-1149

bioacoustics articles in JASA 143(4), Apr. 2018

[Dave Mellinger]

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Volume 143, Issue 4 (article(s) published - 01 April 2018)
Used by permission.

Comparison of passive acoustic soniferous fish monitoring with supervised and 
unsupervised approaches
Tzu-Hao Lin, Yu Tsao, and Tomonari Akamatsu
J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 143, EL278 (2018)

Unknown beaked whale echolocation signals recorded off eastern New Zealand
Giacomo Giorli, Kimberly T. Goetz, Julien Delarue, Emily Maxner, Katie A. 
Kowarski, Steven Bruce Martin, and Craig McPherson
J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 143, EL285 (2018)

Song recorded near a super-group of humpback whales on a mid-latitude feeding 
ground off South Africa
T. Gridley, M. F. P. Silva, C. Wilkinson, S. M. Seakamela, and S. H. Elwen
J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 143, EL298 (2018)

Click reception in the harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena): Effects of 
electrode and contact transducer location on the auditory brainstem response
Jason Mulsow, James J. Finneran, Dorian S. Houser, Chad A. Nordstrom, Lance G. 
Barrett-Lennard, and Robert F. Burkard
J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 143, 2076 (2018)

PhD position on sound localisation in dolphins - Paris, France

[Lapo Boschi]

Applications are sought for a PhD position at Sorbonne University (Paris).​
​
​The successful candidate will be jointly supervised by Dr. Lapo Boschi at
the Earth Sciences institute (ISTEP), Dr. Anthony Herrel at the National
Museum of Natural History (MNHN), and Dr. J. Marchal at the d'Alembert
institute (IJLRA).

Most literature concerned with the evolution of sound localization
postulates that this task is accomplished by means of three, well
established auditory cues, at least in mammals. The first is binaural or
interaural time-difference (ITD): the auditory system compares the arrival
time of a sound at the two ears to determine its azimuth. The second is the
binaural or interaural intensity or level difference (IID or ILD): the
difference in the intensity of a sound is used to determine azimuth.
Finally, mammals evolved external ears, or pinnae,
that alter the spectrum of a sound as a function of source location;
monaural pinna cues enable an animal to avoid front-back confusions and
localize sound in the vertical plane. It has been suggested that this
simple model is insufficient to explain the resolution, target detection,
localization and tracking abilities of the biosonar system in odontocete
cetaceans (dolphins and toothed
​ ​
whales). The research that we propose to conduct questions the
ITD/ILD/spectrum idea, suggesting that the brain of odontocete cetaceans
might be capable of analyzing acoustic waveforms in more sophisticated and
​ ​
effective ways. Our work will contribute to constraining the nature of the
sound localization algorithm encoded in the odontecete brain, bridging the
gap between physicists who think of sound localization and other auditory
tasks in terms of data processing, and psychoacousticians and biologists
whose experimental work provides data on the auditory performance in living
organisms. It will contribute to a better understanding of the mammalian
brain, and inspire the
​d​
evelopment of new sound localization systems, useful to a variety of
applications e.g. in robotics, seismology, and physical acoustics.

Required application material :

   1. detailed CV
   2. letter of motivation
   3. transcripts of notes for your master's courses
   4. Recommandation letter from the supervisors of your first and second
   year's master's degree.

Please email your application to L. Boschi  by the
17th of May, 2018.

Lapo BOSCHI - Maitre de conférences
Laboratoire iSTeP, UMR 7193 UPMC-CNRS
Université Pierre et Marie Curie
4, place Jussieu
Case 129, T.46-00, Et.2
75252 Paris Cedex 05
Tel:+33 (0)1 44 27 52 43
e-mail: lapo.bos...@upmc.fr
web: http://hestia.istep.upmc.fr/~boschil/
---

Still time to register for tomorrow's webinar on the potential effects of sound on marine mammals

[Holly Morin]

**apologies for cross postings**


TOMORROW, May 1, 2018, at 12:00pm ET,  Dr. Brandon Southall will provide a 
review of the potential effects of sound on marine mammals 

 
(https://dosits.org/decision-makers/webinar-series/webinars-2018/potential-effects-mammals2018/
 
).
 

There is still still time to register for this FREE underwater acoustics 
webinar, which is part of a Discovery of Sound in the Sea (DOSITS) four-part 
webinar series. The webinar will last approximately 60 minutes and be comprised 
of one, focused presentation, followed by an extended period of facilitated 
discussion.

Interested individuals must register in advance for each webinar. 
To register please visit: http://eepurl.com/do0eqH

An outline for this webinar with links to background content on DOSITS is 
available. Participants are encouraged to review this outline prior to the 
webinar. 

To learn more about this webinar series or other upcoming webinar dates and 
speakers, please visit the DOSITS webpage, Webinar Series for Regulators of 
Underwater Sound 
(https://dosits.org/decision-makers/webinar-series/webinars-2018/ 
).  An 
archive of Dr. Darlene Ketten’s webinar on marine mammal sound reception and 
production will be available shortly 
(https://dosits.org/decision-makers/webinar-series/webinars-2018/sound-reception-mammals2018/
 
).
  Associated webinars and their resources were conducted in 2015 and 2016 
webinars and have been archived here 
(https://dosits.org/decision-makers/webinar-series/webinar-archive-2015-16/ 
). 
 
Questions?  Please contact Holly Morin at holly_mo...@uri.edu.

Bioacoustics article: Marine Mammal Science: 34, 2 (April 2018)

[Jason Gedamke - NOAA Federal]

Marine Mammal Science
© Society for Marine Mammalogy
Volume 34, Issue 2 Pages 271 - 570, April 2018
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10./mms.2018.34.issue-2/issuetoc?campaign=woletoc


ARTICLES

Variability in blue whale acoustic behavior off southern California
(pages 311–329)
Leah A. Lewis and Ana Širović
Version of Record online: 23 OCT 2017 | DOI: 10./mms.12458

passive acoustic monitoring of marine biodiversity

[Lisa Munger]

Dear Bioacoustics research community,

I am involved in drafting an invited manuscript for Frontiers in Marine
Science on the use of passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) as a tool for
monitoring marine biodiversity (see Frontiers topic announcement at
https://goo.gl/FMErBs). My co-authors are Dr. Linda Weilgart (Dalhousie
University), Dr. Aran Mooney and Dr. Ashlee Lillis (both at Woods Hole
Oceanographic Institution).

As part of our data collection for the manuscript, we have designed a
survey for researchers and experts in this field (link to survey below).
Our goals are to 1) summarize where we are now in this area of research,
including current technologies and methodologies in use, current
limitations/challenges, etc. and 2) discuss ways forward for PAM to be
integrated into global ocean observing networks.

Survey link:  https://goo.gl/forms/8wkCKO6stUQ83odk1

If you work in PAM of marine biodiversity, we would greatly appreciate your
time and effort in responding to this survey by the end of this month (30
April 2018). Please share with colleagues as appropriate.

Sincerely,
Lisa, Lindy, Aran, and Ashlee


-- 
Dr. Lisa Munger

Science Director
Oceanwide Science Institute
oceanwidescience.org

Fwd: Reminder: Upcoming DOSITS webinars on marine mammals and underwater sound

[Holly Morin]

apologies for cross postings

There is still still time to register for the upcoming* marine
mammals/underwater acoustics webinars*, which are part of the *Discovery of
Sound in the Sea (DOSITS)*

 *four-part webinar serie**s**. *Each webinar will last approximately 60
minutes and be comprised of one, focused presentation, followed by an
extended period of facilitated discussion.

The first two webinars of this four-part series will focus on topics
related to *marine mammals*. Subsequent webinars will take place in fall
2018 and focus on fishes.

   - *Dr. Darlene Ketten* will provide a review of *sound reception in
   marine mammals* on *Tuesday, April 24, 2018, at 12:00pm ET*
   - *Dr. Brandon Southall* will provide a review of the *potential effects
   of sound on marine mammals* on *Tuesday, May 1, 2018, at 12:00pm ET *

*Interested individuals must register in advance for each webinar. *
To register please visit: *http://eepurl.com/do0eqH*


Prior to each webinar, an outline of the webinar with links to background
content on DOSITS will be made available. *Participants are encouraged to
review these outlines before the webinars*. Outlines will be available on
the DOSITS site shortly.

To learn more about this webinar series or other upcoming webinar dates and
speakers, please visit the DOSITS webpage, Webinar Series for Regulators of
Underwater Sound

.  Associated webinars and their resources were conducted in 2015 and 2016
webinars and have been archived here

.


Questions?  Please contact Holly Morin at holly_mo...@uri.edu.

survey: passive acoustic monitoring of marine biodiversity

[Lisa Munger]

 Dear Bioacoustics research community,

I am involved in drafting an invited manuscript for Frontiers in Marine
Science on the use of passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) as a tool for
monitoring marine biodiversity (see Frontiers topic announcement at
https://goo.gl/FMErBs). My co-authors are Dr. Linda Weilgart (Dalhousie
University), Dr. Aran Mooney and Dr. Ashlee Lillis (both at Woods Hole
Oceanographic Institution).

As part of our data collection for the manuscript, we have designed a
survey for researchers and experts in this field (link to survey below).
Our goals are to 1) summarize where we are now in this area of research,
including current technologies and methodologies in use, current
limitations/challenges, etc. and 2) discuss ways forward for PAM to be
integrated into global ocean observing networks.

Survey link:  https://goo.gl/forms/8wkCKO6stUQ83odk1

If you work in PAM of marine biodiversity, we would greatly appreciate your
time and effort in responding to this survey by the end of this month (30
April 2018). Please share with colleagues as appropriate.

Sincerely,
Lisa, Lindy, Aran, and Ashlee


-- 
Dr. Lisa Munger

Science Director
Oceanwide Science Institute
oceanwidescience.org

Job: Research Fellow in Machine Listening - University of Surrey, UK - Deadline: 1 May 2018

[m.plumbley]

Dear Bioacoustics people, 
Please forward to anyone who may be interested. FYI I will be at ICASSP 
in Calgary next week in case anyone would like more details (including 
chairing Session AASP-L6, Thursday, April 19, 13:30-15:30 in Macleod B). 
Best wishes, Mark Plumbley

===

Research Fellow in Machine Listening

University of Surrey, UK
Salary: GBP 30,688 to GBP 38,833 per annum  
Closing Date: 1 May 2018 (23:00 BST)
https://jobs.surrey.ac.uk/021518

Applications are invited for a Research Fellow in Machine Listening to
work full-time on an EPSRC-funded project "Making Sense of Sounds", to
start as soon as possible, for 9.75 months until 13 March 2019. This
project is investigating how to make sense from sound data, focussing on
how to allow people to search, browse and interact with sounds. The
candidate will be responsible for investigating and developing machine
learning methods for analysis of everyday sounds, leading to new
representations to support search, retrieval and interaction with
sound.
 
The successful applicant is expected to have a PhD or equivalent in
electronic engineering, computer science or a related subject, and is
expected to have significant research experience in audio signal
processing and machine learning. Research experience in one or more of
the following is desirable: deep learning; blind source separation,
blind de-reverberation, sparse and/or non-negative representations,
audio feature extraction.
 
The project is being led by Prof Mark Plumbley in the Centre for Vision
Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP) at the University of Surrey, in
collaboration with the Digital World Research Centre (DWRC) at Surrey,
and the University of Salford. The postholder will be based in CVSSP and
work under the direction of Prof Plumbley and Co-Investigators Dr Wenwu
Wang and Dr Philip Jackson. For more about the project see:
http://cvssp.org/projects/making_sense_of_sounds/
 
CVSSP is an International Centre of Excellence for research in
Audio-Visual Machine Perception, with 125 researchers, a grant portfolio
of £20M. The Centre has state-of-the-art acoustic capture and analysis
facilities enabling research into audio source separation, music
transcription and spatial audio. Audio-visual compute includes 700 cores
and a 50GPU machine learning cluster with 500TB of online storage.
 
Informal enquires are welcome, to: Prof Mark Plumbley
(m.plumb...@surrey.ac.uk), Dr Wenwu Wang (w.w...@surrey.ac.uk), or Dr
Philip Jackson (p.jack...@surrey.ac.uk).

For more information and to apply online, please visit:
https://jobs.surrey.ac.uk/021518

We acknowledge, understand and embrace diversity.

===

--
Prof Mark D Plumbley
Professor of Signal Processing
Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP) 
University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7XH, UK
Email: m.plumb...@surrey.ac.uk


 LVA/ICA 2018
 14th International Conference on Latent Variable Analysis and Signal Separation
 July 2-6, 2018, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK
 http://cvssp.org/events/lva-ica-2018

Deadline reminder: ICEI 2018, special session "Analysis of ecoacoustic recordings"

[Dan Stowell]

Dear all,

A reminder of the deadline this Sunday (15th April) for ABSTRACT 
submission to the 10th International Conference on Ecological 
Informatics , and in particular to our 
special session on:

   "Analysis of ecoacoustic recordings: detection, segmentation and 
classification"
  (Session Chairs: Jérôme Sueur and Dan Stowell)

For full details see 

We look forward to meeting you in Jena, Germany.

Best wishes,
Dan Stowell and Jérôme Sueur

-- 
Dan Stowell
Senior Researcher
Machine Listening Lab
Centre for Digital Music
Queen Mary, University of London
Mile End Road, London E1 4NS
http://www.mcld.co.uk/research/
http://machine-listening.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/

New publication: Marine Soundscape Planning

[Ilse Van Opzeeland]

Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the publication of our paper, titled: Marine 
soundscape planning: Seeking acoustic

niches for anthropogenic sound, in the Journal of Ecoacoustics.

Abstract

Both marine mammals and hydroacoustic instruments employ underwater 
sound to communicate, navigate or infer information
about the marine environment. Concurrent timing of acoustic activities 
using similar frequency regimes may result in
(potentially mutual) interference of acoustic signals when both sources 
are within audible range of the recipient. While marine
mammal fitness might be negatively impacted upon, both on individual and 
population level, hydroacoustic studies may
generate low quality data or suffer data loss as a result of bioacoustic 
interference. This article pursues, in analogy to landscape
planning, the concept of marine soundscape planning to reconcile 
potentially competing uses of acoustic space by
managing the anthropogenic sound sources. We here present a conceptual 
framework exploring the potential of soundscape
planning in reducing (mutual) acoustic interference between 
hydroacoustic instrumentation and marine mammals. The basis
of this framework is formed by the various mechanisms by which acoustic 
niche formation (i.e., the partitioning of the
acoustic space) occurs in species-rich communities that acoustically 
coexist while maintaining high fidelity (hi-fi)
soundscapes, i.e., by acoustically partitioning the environment on the 
basis of time, space, frequency and signal structure.
Hydroacoustic measurements often exhibit certain flexibility in their 
timing, and even instrument positioning, potentially offering
the opportunity to minimize the ecological imprint of their operation. 
This study explores how the principle of acoustic
niches could contribute to reduce potential (mutual) acoustic 
interference based on actual acoustic data from three recording
locations in polar oceans. By employing marine soundscape planning 
strategies, entailing shifting the timing or position of
hydroacoustic experiments, or adapting signal structure or frequency, we 
exemplify the potential efficacy of smart planning
for four different hydroacoustic instrumentation types: multibeam 
echosounders, air guns, RAFOS (Ranging and Fixing of

Sound) and tomographic sound sources.

The article is published under an open access license and can be 
accessed here: https://doi.org/10.22261/JEA.5GSNT8.


Best Regards,

Ilse Van Opzeeland



--
Dr I.C. Van Opzeeland
Ocean Acoustics Lab
Alfred Wegener Institute
Helmholtz Centre for Polar
and Marine Research

Am Alten Hafen 26
27568 Bremerhaven
(+49)(0)471 4831 1169
ilse.van.opzeel...@awi.de

--
Dr I.C. Van Opzeeland
Ocean Acoustics Lab
Alfred Wegener Institute
Helmholtz Centre for Polar
and Marine Research

Am Alten Hafen 26
27568 Bremerhaven
(+49)(0)471 4831 1169
ilse.van.opzeel...@awi.de

Welcome to DCASE 2018 Challenge

[Tuomas Virtanen]

I am happy to announce that the evaluation campaign on Detection and 
Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events DCASE 2018 is now open. The 
challenge will include the following tasks:

1) Acoustic scene classification
2) General-purpose audio tagging of Freesound content with AudioSet labels
3) Bird Audio Detection
4) Large-scale weakly labeled semi-supervised sound event detection in domestic 
environments
5) Monitoring of domestic activities based on multi-channel acoustics

Please find the task descriptions, challenge instructions and rules, and links 
to data (except data of Task 1 which will be released in few weeks) on the 
challenge web page

http://dcase.community

Baseline methods for the tasks will be added in one or two weeks. The tentative 
schedule of the challenge is as follows:

29th Mar: release of detailed task specifications, development datasets
6th Apr release of baseline systems
30th Jun: release of evaluation datasets
31st July: challenge submission deadline
15 Sep: challenge results
November: DCASE workshop in Surrey, UK

Welcome to participate!

On the behalf of the DCASE Organizers,
Tuomas Virtanen

-- 
Tuomas Virtanen  Tampere University of Technology
tuomas.virta...@tut.fi+358401981308
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~tuomasv/

Underwater Acoustics: 2018 Webinar Series for the International Regulatory Community

[Holly Morin]

***apologies for cross postings***


Regulators, decision makers, public affairs officers, industry representatives, 
other members of the international regulatory community, and others interested 
in underwater acoustics are invited to participate in the Discovery of Sound in 
the Sea (DOSITS)  free, four-part webinar series 
described below.

The webinar topics will include foundational science on sound reception and 
potential effects in marine mammals and fishes.  Each webinar will last 
approximately 60 minutes and be comprised of one, focused presentation, 
followed by an extended period of facilitated discussion.

Prior to each webinar, an outline of the webinar with links to background 
content on DOSITS will be made available. Participants are encouraged to review 
these outlines before the webinars. All webinars will be archived on the DOSITS 
website (Webinar Series for Regulators of Underwater Sound 
).  Full 
webinar summaries, questions asked, and their answers will be posted online 
after each webinar.

The first two webinars of this four-part series will focus on topics related to 
marine mammals. The subsequent webinars will take place in fall 2018 and focus 
on fishes.

Dr. Darlene Ketten will provide a review of sound reception in marine mammals 
on Tuesday, April 24, 2018, at 12:00pm ET
Dr. Brandon Southall will provide a review of the potential effects of sound on 
marine mammals on Tuesday, May 1, 2018, at 12:00pm ET 

Interested individuals must register in advance for each webinar. 
To register please visit: http://eepurl.com/do0eqH 

To learn more about this webinar series or to view previous webinars or other, 
upcoming webinar dates and speakers, please visit the DOSITS webpage, Webinar 
Series for Regulators of Underwater Sound 
.  Associated 
webinars and their resources were conducted in 2015 and 2016 webinars and have 
been archived here 
.

 
Questions?  Please contact Holly Morin at holly_mo...@uri.edu 
.

 

Discovery of Sound in the Sea (DOSITS; www.dosits.org) is a comprehensive, 
educational website on underwater sound, designed to provide accurate 
scientific information at levels appropriate for all audiences, including 
decision-makers.

searching the source of a figure

[Gianni Pavan]

Dear all, I have a figure and I need to find the source to properly
reference it in a paper. I hope someone of you can recognize this figure
and point me to the original paper !

As an alternative, can you suggest another figure to show the effect of a
parabolic reflector ?

the link to the figure is : : https://www.dropbox.com/s/5s
m25k5qhc3wycv/parabolic%20response.png?dl=0

thanks in advance
Gianni

-- 
Centro Interdisciplinare di Bioacustica e Ricerche Ambientali
Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra e dell'Ambiente
Universita' di Pavia
Via Taramelli 24 - 27100 PAVIA - I
http://www.unipv.it/cibra
Phone +39-0382-987874 <+39%200382%20987874>

Banca Dati Nazionale Spiaggiamenti Mammiferi Marini
http://mammiferimarini.unipv.it

Consiglio Scientifico International Society of Ecoacoustics
http://sites.google.com/site/ecoacousticssociety

Analysis of ecoacoustic recordings, session at International Conference on Ecological Informatics, Germany, September 24-28 -- DEADLINE EXTENDED to APRIL 15

[Jérôme SUEUR]

SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED to APRIL 15, 2018. 

Dear colleagues, 

We are pleased to announce a session entitled "Analysis of ecoacoustic 
recordings: detection, segmentation and classification" at the next 
International Conference on Ecological Informatics to be held in Jena, 
Germany, September 24-28. All information about conference organisation is 
available at http://icei2018.uni-jena.de 

This session mainly aims at sharing technical developments in sound analysis 
for ecoacoustic research (see abstract below). 

We are very keen on reading your abstracts that should be submitted before 
March, 18 at http://icei2018.uni-jena.de/calls/ 

Do no hesitate to contact us if you have any query. 

We look forward to meeting you in Jena, 

Best regards, 

Jérôme Sueur(1) and Dan Stowell(2) 

1 - Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, France 
2 - Queen Mary University of London, UK 


Abstract - Ecoacoustics is a newly emerged discipline that aims at tackling 
ecological research questions through the lens of sound analysis. Ecoacoustics 
covers several questions in marine, freshwater and terrestrial environments 
dealing with biodiversity monitoring, population ecology, community ecology and 
landscape ecology. One of the key approaches of ecoacoustics consists in 
identifying sounds of ecological importance in environmental recordings that 
were collected in an unattended way by automatic recorders. This search task is 
made difficult by the occurrence of background noise due to human activities, 
the co-occurrence of several sounds of interest, the degradation of the sounds 
of interest related to their propagation in the environment, a high-degree of 
variability of the sounds of interest, a large amount of data, and a lack of 
reference archives. Solutions including computer processes are currently in 
development to try to get around these difficulties. This session will be the 
occasion to report and share new techniques involving signal analysis, machine 
learning, deep learning and high dimension statistics for advances in 
detection, segmentation, supervised and unsupervised classification of sound 
events. 

Call for Abstracts

[Livio Favaro]

Dear list members,

(apologies for cross-posting)

we are pleased to announce and invite you to participate in the following 
symposium, to be held as part of the 9th European Conference on Behavioural 
Biology (ECBB) (Liverpool, UK, 9-12 August 2018): “Acoustic signatures in 
animal vocalisations”

Organizers: Dr. Livio Favaro, Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology, 
University of Turin, Italy (livio.fav...@unito.it 
); Dr. Marco Gamba, Department of Life Sciences 
and Systems Biology, University of Turin, Italy (marco.ga...@unito.it 
); Dr. Marina Scheumann, Institute of Zoology, 
University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Hannover, Germany 
(marina.scheum...@tiho-hannover.de )

Symposium description:  Vocal communication is widespread in vertebrates and 
vocalisations have the potential to encode a variety of information, including 
the species, population, and geographical location of the emitter. When looking 
more in detail at the content of the vocal signals, these often also contain 
acoustic cues to individuality, sex, age, body size and even emotional status. 
Such acoustic signatures can be encoded in vocalisations using universal voice 
cues, related to the physical features of the signaler, modulation of spectral 
characteristics over time, which requires fine control of the vocal organs, or 
the combination of vocal units into meaningful biological sequences. Studying 
acoustic signatures in vocalisations can allow a better understanding of 
species’ evolutionary history, behavioral ecology as well as investigating the 
sexual and social sources of selection acting on both signalers and receivers. 
This symposium will explore new approaches and directions in the field of 
sensory ecology. It will focus on comparison across species, with contributions 
focusing on different taxa and several modalities to encode acoustic signatures 
in vocalisations. Finally, it will explore how recent advances in sound 
recording and signal processing allow a far better investigation of the content 
of animal calls. Such technological improvements also open novel scenarios for 
tracking individuals or populations using sounds. 

Deadline for submission of abstracts: April, 27th 2018

For more info on the conference please visit: www.ljmu.ac.uk/conferences/ecbb 


We look forward to seeing you in Liverpool.

Best wishes,
Livio, Marco, Marina


--
Livio Favaro, PhD
Università degli Studi di Torino
Dip. Scienze della Vita e Biologia dei Sistemi
Laboratorio di Zoologia e Biologia Marina
Via Accademia Albertina, 13 - 10123 Torino
Tel.+39.011.6704538 / 78
Fax+39.011.6704508
e-mail livio.fav...@unito.it 

Fwd: Postdoc in bird song

[Dan Stowell]

 Forwarded Message 
Subject:Re: [ASAB-MAIL] Postdoc in bird song
Date:   Tue, 13 Mar 2018 12:18:01 +
From:   Robert Lachlan 
Reply-To:   Robert Lachlan 
To: animal-behavi...@jiscmail.ac.uk



Dear Animal Behaviour Researchers,

A 3-year postdoc is available at QMUL to work with me (Rob Lachlan), 
David Clayton, and Dan Stowell. The project examines how birds perceive 
differences in songs using operant techniques; machine learning; and 
cultural evolution. Intrigued? Please write to me and/or see the links 
below for more information.

Best wishes,

Rob

https://webapps2.is.qmul.ac.uk/jobs/job.action?jobID=3154

http://www.findapostdoc.com/search/job-details.aspx?jobcode=7789

http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BIF688/postdoctoral-research-assistant/

A Postdoctoral Research Assistant position is available at Queen Mary 
University of London (QMUL) as part of a project funded by the BBSRC. 
The project *‘Machine learning for bird song learning’ *seeks to develop 
and apply new methods for assessing the similarity between complex bird 
song syllables, guided by the perception of birds themselves.

This particular research position will play two key roles in the 
project. First, you will lead the effort to use operant conditioning 
techniques to examine how birds judge the similarity of song syllables. 
This will involve using existing operant conditioning techniques to 
examine how zebra finches assess song syllable similarity. It will also 
involve the development of new methods (in collaboration with Dr Robert 
Lachlan) to carry out operant conditioning with free-living wild birds. 
Second, you will collate data-sets of song variation from free living 
populations, and (again in collaboration with Dr Lachlan) carry out 
comparative analyses using cultural evolutionary simulations fitted to 
data, and based on song comparisons using our new methods in order to 
compare processes of song learning between species. The project will 
therefore allow you to develop skills in two cutting edge areas of 
behavioural biology.

The project will require that you travel to collaborate with project 
partners in the Netherlands (Wageningen) and the UK (Cornwall).

The ideal candidate for this position should have a PhD in animal 
behaviour and communication. Experience in working with both captive and 
wild birds, in operant conditioning methods, and with evolutionary 
theory would be desirable. A track record of peer-reviewed publications 
is essential.

This is a full-time, fixed term post available for a period of 3 years. 
The start date is 01/06/2018. The salary is in the range of £32,956 - 
£38,709 per annum and is inclusive of London allowance. The salary will 
be dependent on qualifications, skills and experience.

Candidates must be able to demonstrate their eligibility to work in the 
UK in accordance with the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006. 
Where required this may include entry clearance or continued leave to 
remain under the Points Based Immigration Scheme.

*Informal enquiries for further information are welcomed and may be made 
to Dr Robert Lachlan, email: r.f.lach...@qmul.ac.uk 
 or Tel +44 (0)20 7882 5058*

*For further information about the School, please see 
**http://www.sbcs.qmul.ac.uk* *. *

*To apply please click the link below*

*Application enquiries should be directed to **recruitm...@qmul.ac.uk* 
*__*

*The closing date for applications is 6 April 2018. Interviews will be 
held shortly thereafter. *

/Valuing Diversity & Committed to Equality/



***
Dr R.F. Lachlan
Lecturer in Psychology,
Department of Biological and Experimental Psychology
School of Biological and Chemical Sciences
Queen Mary University of London
Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS
United Kingdom

Office: 3.18 G. E. Fogg
Phone:  +44 (0)20 7882 5058
E-mail: r.f.lach...@qmul.ac.uk 

Analysis of ecoacoustic recordings, session at International Conference on Ecological Informatics, Germany, September 24-28 -- DEADLINE IS APPROACHING

[Jérôme SUEUR]

Dear colleagues, 

We take the liberty to remind you that the deadline for the abstract submission 
for the session we organised at the next International Conference on Ecological 
Informatics is the 18th March . 

Best regards, 

Jerome Sueur and Dan Stowell 

--- 

Dear colleagues, 

We are pleased to announce a session entitled "Analysis of ecoacoustic 
recordings: detection, segmentation and classification" at the next 
International Conference on Ecological Informatics to be held in Jena, 
Germany, September 24-28. All information about conference organisation is 
available at http://icei2018.uni-jena.de 

This session mainly aims at sharing technical developments in sound analysis 
for ecoacoustic research (see abstract below). 

We are very keen on reading your abstracts that should be submitted before 
March, 18 at http://icei2018.uni-jena.de/calls/ 

Do no hesitate to contact us if you have any query. 

We look forward to meeting you in Jena, 

Best regards, 

Jérôme Sueur(1) and Dan Stowell(2) 

1 - Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, France 
2 - Queen Mary University of London, UK 


Abstract - Ecoacoustics is a newly emerged discipline that aims at tackling 
ecological research questions through the lens of sound analysis. Ecoacoustics 
covers several questions in marine, freshwater and terrestrial environments 
dealing with biodiversity monitoring, population ecology, community ecology and 
landscape ecology. One of the key approaches of ecoacoustics consists in 
identifying sounds of ecological importance in environmental recordings that 
were collected in an unattended way by automatic recorders. This search task is 
made difficult by the occurrence of background noise due to human activities, 
the co-occurrence of several sounds of interest, the degradation of the sounds 
of interest related to their propagation in the environment, a high-degree of 
variability of the sounds of interest, a large amount of data, and a lack of 
reference archives. Solutions including computer processes are currently in 
development to try to get around these difficulties. This session will be the 
occasion to report and share new techniques involving signal analysis, machine 
learning, deep learning and high dimension statistics for advances in 
detection, segmentation, supervised and unsupervised classification of sound 
events. 

New publication on using UAVs (drones) for bioacoustics recordings

[Laura Kloepper]

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce our open access latest paper, which is an
applications/methods paper describing the modification of a UAV (drone) to
obtain echolocation sounds and video from bats during flight.

Fu, Y., Kinniry, M., and Kloepper, L.N. The Chirocopter: a UAV for
recording sound and video of bats at altitude. Methods in Ecology and
Evolution, Advanced online publication 2 March 2018. doi:
10./2041-210X.12992

URL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10./2041-210X.12992/full

Summary


1.Most recordings of bats are conducted with fixed equipment, which relies
on opportunistic data collection. Unmanned aerial vehicles (such as drones)
are considered inappropriate for recording bats due to ultrasound noise
constraints.


2.We developed a UAV system that physically isolates UAV noise so we can
record, with 3D maneuverability, ultrasonic audio and spatial thermal data
of bat flight at altitude.


3.We tested the noise of our UAV with various payloads and microphone
configurations to characterize the ultrasonic noise of our system,
physically isolate drone noise from the microphone, and maximize UAV flight
performance.


4.Over 84 minutes of recordings, we captured 3,847 echolocation signals
from bats with corresponding thermal data of bat flight. Our system
provides a feasible mechanism to capture both acoustic and video data of
bats aloft at flexible locations and altitudes.


5.We include information on how to extend our method to apply to acoustic
recordings in the audible (20 Hz-20 kHz) range for recording sounds of
other taxa.



Cheers,

Laura Kloepper

Assistant Professor

Biology Department

Saint Mary's College

Notre Dame, IN

Science of Underwater Sound: A new, interactive, digital book available in the iBooks Store

[Holly Morin]

***apologies for cross-postings***


Discovery of Sound in the Sea (DOSITS) Book II: Science of Underwater Sound 
 is a new, interactive electronic book (eBook) that 
contains high-resolution imagery, videos, and sound files. It utilizes 
existing, peer-reviewed DOSITS content to provide a condensed electronic 
resource that focuses on the fundamental science of underwater sound, sound 
movement, and sound measurement, as well as advanced content. Several topics in 
the book are areas of active scientific research; new information will be 
integrated into the eBook as peer-reviewed publications become available. 

The content in this book is based on the DOSITS project, including its website, 
www.dosits.org. DOSITS content is based on well-understood scientific 
principles, peer-reviewed literature, and high-quality scientific data. 
Independent, scientific experts, who specialize in underwater acoustics, have 
reviewed all DOSITS content. The DOSITS project keeps its content as up-to-date 
as possible, incorporating new research findings twice a year.

The book is available in the iTunes store 

 for macOS, iPad, and iPhone.  To view sample pages and access the book via an 
iTunes link, please visit the DOSITS website at www.dosits.org/book/.   
Information and an iTunes link for Book I: Importance of Sound in the Sea can 
also be found on this page.


Questions?  Please contact Holly Morin (holly_mo...@uri.edu)

bioacoustics articles, JASA 143(2), Feb. 2018

[Dave Mellinger]

Bioacoustics articles in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 
143(2), February 2018:


Source levels of foraging humpback whale calls
Michelle E. H. Fournet, Leanna P. Matthews, Christine M. Gabriele, David K. 
Mellinger more...
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 143, EL105 (2018); 
https://doi.org/10.1121/1.5023599

An approach for automatic classification of grouper vocalizations with passive 
acoustic monitoring
Ali K. Ibrahim, Laurent M. Chérubin, Hanqi Zhuang, Michelle T. Schärer Umpierre 
more...
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 143, 666 (2018); 
https://doi.org/10.1121/1.5022281

A systematic method for isolating, tracking and discriminating time-frequency 
components of bat echolocation calls
Yanqing Fu, and Laura N. Kloepper
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 143, 716 (2018); 
https://doi.org/10.1121/1.5023205

Conditioned attenuation of auditory brainstem responses in dolphins warned of 
an intense noise exposure: Temporal and spectral patterns
James J. Finneran
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 143, 795 (2018); 
https://doi.org/10.1121/1.5022784

Modelling the broadband propagation of marine mammal echolocation clicks for 
click-based population density estimates
Alexander M. von Benda-Beckmann, Len Thomas, Peter L. Tyack, and Michael A. 
Ainslie
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 143, 954 (2018); 
https://doi.org/10.1121/1.5023220

Stereotypic and complex phrase types provide structural evidence for a 
multi-message display in humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae)
Anita Murray, Rebecca A. Dunlop, Michael J. Noad, and Anne W. Goldizen
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 143, 980 (2018); 
https://doi.org/10.1121/1.5023680

Acoustic pulse propagation in forests
Michael B. Muhlestein, Vladimir E. Ostashev, D. Keith Wilson, and Donald G. 
Albert
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 143, 968 (2018); 
https://doi.org/10.1121/1.5024352

Correspondence between sound propagation in discrete and continuous random 
media with application to forest acoustics
Vladimir E. Ostashev, D. Keith Wilson, Michael B. Muhlestein, and Keith 
Attenborough
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 143, 1194 (2018); 
https://doi.org/10.1121/1.5024904

Passive acoustic tracking using a library of nearby sources of opportunity
Christopher M. A. Verlinden, J. Sarkar, W. S. Hodgkiss, W. A. Kuperman more...
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 143, 878 (2018); 
https://doi.org/10.1121/1.5022782

Invitation to Attend ISBE 2018 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, 11-16 August 2018

[Holger Klinck]

Posted on behalf of Mark Bee (m...@umn.edu )

*

Greetings, Fellow Bioacousticians!

For those of you interested in the intersection of*bioacoustics* and 
*behavioral ecology*, you're cordially invited to attend *ISBE 2018* 
 (http://z.umn.edu/isbe2018) in Minneapolis, 
Minnesota, USA, 11-16 August 2018! This will be the 17th Congress of the 
International Society for Behavioral Ecology 
(http://www.behavecol.com/). Registration and Abstract Submission are 
already OPEN!  Visit the conference website (http://z.umn.edu/isbe2018) 
for more information, and mark your calendars with these important dates:


*
*March 31, 2018*
/Talk/ Abstract Submission Closes
   Discounted Early-Bird Registration Closes
   Travel Award Applications Due
*July 20, 2018*
   Poster Abstract Submission Closes
   Online Registration Closes
   Special Meeting Rates at Conference Hotels End
*August 11-16, 2018*
   ISBE 2018 will be underway!
*
*
*
We hope to have a diverse representation of behavioral ecologists on 
hand for an outstanding lineup of invited speakers from all over the 
world, as well as the usual contributed oral and poster sessions and, of 
course, the traditional ISBE soccer match. There are lots of reasons to 
attend ISBE 2018 beyond the fantastic science we anticipate. The city of 
Minneapolis (https://www.minneapolis.org/), and its nearby sister city 
of St. Paul (https://www.visitsaintpaul.com/ 
), create a vibrant cosmopolitan area 
(the "Twin Cities") with much to offer, and the surrounding area 
(http://www.exploreminnesota.com/index.aspx 
) has unmatched 
opportunities for outdoor activities ranging from canoeing to hiking and 
backpacking.


Follow ISBE 2018 on facebook (https://www.facebook.com/ISBE2018/ 
) and twitter 
(https://twitter.com/isbe2018), and please share this email with anyone 
you believe may be interested in attending. We look forward to seeing 
you in the Twin Cities in August 2018!


Sincerely,
Mark Bee
On behalf of the ISBE 2018 Local Organizing Committee

--
Dr. Holger Klinck
Director of the Bioacoustics Research Program
Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Cornell University

Faculty Fellow
Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future, Cornell Univeristy

Courtesy Assistant Professor
Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Oregon State University

Mailing address:
159 Sapsucker Woods Road
Ithaca, NY 14850, USA

Tel:+1.607.254.6250
Fax:+1.607.254.2460
Email:  holger.kli...@cornell.edu
Web:http://brp.cornell.edu

International Congress for Neuroethology and Animal Biosonar Satellite Symposium

[Holger Klinck]

Posted on behalf of Cindy Moss (cynthia.m...@jhu.edu 
)


*

Dear all,

The International Congress for Neuroethology (ICN) and an Animal 
Biosonar Satellite Symposium will take place in Brisbane, Australia, 
July 15-20, 2018.  The confrence website can be accessed through this 
link: http://www.icn2018.com/index.php 
. The ICN emphasizes comparative and 
evolutionary studies of brain and behavior and will be of broad interest 
to those in the field of Animal Bioacoustics.  This meeting will provide 
an exciting venue for graduate students and postdocs to interact with 
scientists from around the world.  Limited funds are available to assist 
ASA student and postdoc members with travel expenses.  To inquire about 
student/postdoc travel funds, please contact Cynthia Moss 
(cynthia.m...@jhu.edu ).


Best,

Cindy Moss

--
Dr. Holger Klinck
Director of the Bioacoustics Research Program
Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Cornell University

Faculty Fellow
Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future, Cornell Univeristy

Courtesy Assistant Professor
Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Oregon State University

Mailing address:
159 Sapsucker Woods Road
Ithaca, NY 14850, USA

Tel:+1.607.254.6250
Fax:+1.607.254.2460
Email:  holger.kli...@cornell.edu
Web:http://brp.cornell.edu

more bioacoustics articles: J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 143(1), Jan. 2018

[Dave Mellinger]

Here are some more bioacoustics papers in The Journal of the Acoustical Society 
of America 143(1), Jan. 2018:


Effects of vibratory pile driver noise on echolocation and vigilance in 
bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus)
Brian K. Branstetter, Victoria F. Bowman, Dorian S. Houser, Megan Tormey, 
Patchouly Banks, James J. Finneran, and Keith Jenkins
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 143, 429 (2018)

The importance of particle motion to fishes and invertebrates
Arthur N. Popper and Anthony D. Hawkins
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 143, 470 (2018)

Comments on “Killer whale (Orcinus orca) behavioral audiograms” [J. Acoust. 
Soc. Am. 141, 2387–2398 (2017)]
Henry E. Heffner and Rickye S. Heffner
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 143, 500 (2018)

Comment on “Temporal and spatial variation in harbor seal (Phoca vitulina L.) 
roar calls from southern Scandinavia” [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 141, 1824−1834 
(2017)]
Andrea Ravignani
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 143, 504 (2018)


Sorry for the omission. For some reason these papers were left out of JASA's 
monthly email summary, from which I pull out the bioacoustics papers.

Dave

Aquatic Noise 2019

[Holger Klinck]

Sent on behalf of Christine Erbe (c.e...@curtin.edu.au 
)


*

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the Fifth International Conference on the 
*Effects of Noise on Aquatic Life *(AN2019), which will take place 
during the week of 7-12 July, 2019, in Den Haag, The Netherlands. The 
conference will follow from, and build upon, the earlier meetings, the 
most recent of which took place in Dublin in 2016.


We are very excited about the location and the venue. The meeting will 
be held at the Grand Hotel Kurhaus of Scheveningen, a building dating 
back to 1884. The hotel presents itself with grandeur and flair. It is 
right at the sea with a wonderful beach. The boardwalk features numerous 
restaurants and cafes. The venue is easily reached from Amsterdam. It 
provides exceptional accommodation, meeting rooms, and places for 
informal discussions.


At this point we are in the early planning stages and it will be very 
helpful for us to have some sense of interest in the meeting from 
potential participants. Therefore, we have set up a short online survey 
to get your thoughts on the meeting and to keep a list of interested 
participants so that we can keep you informed of major progress in 
planning. In addition, please share the link with others who might be 
interested in attending the meeting: https://goo.gl/xY6BKr 



We have also begun to develop the conference website: 
http://www.an-2019.org 


Please visit the web site regularly so you will be aware of important 
information about the meeting.


Also, both Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/AquaticNoise2019/) and 
Twitter (@AquaticNoise) have been set up, so please follow us for updates.


Over the coming months, we will set up our Technical Advisory Board, 
raise funds, and develop a tentative program. We will be announcing 
calls for papers as well as how to sign up to attend the meeting and 
make hotel reservations. We are hoping to have sufficient funding to 
provide some support to students and younger colleagues, and so if 
anyone knows of (or controls) funding opportunities please contact 
Christine Erbe or Joe Sisneros.


Stay tuned and we’re looking forward to welcoming you to another 
outstanding meeting on the *Effects of Noise on Aquatic Life* in July, 
2019. And, of course, if you have any questions and/or suggestions about 
AN2019, please contact any of the organizers.


Christine Erbe, c.e...@curtin.edu.au 

Tony Hawkins, a.hawk...@btconnect.com 

Paul Lepper, p.a.lep...@lboro.ac.uk 

Art Popper, apop...@umd.edu 

Joe Sisneros, sisne...@uw.edu 

Frank Thomsen, f...@dhigroup.com 

Internship opportunity in audio localization and separation

[Ricard Marxer]

Internship Opportunity
Augmented hearing: Acoustic localization and separation

Background:
The internship is associated with the Augmented Audition project for
Bioacoustics (A2B). This project aims to study the localisation and
separation of sound sources in an augmented reality environment, by means
of in-ear microphones. This setting approximates potential scenarios
involving "intelligent" earbuds such as Apple AirPods or Google Pixel Buds.

Objectives:
An objective of the project is the production of a corpus of recordings in
a natural environment of binaural audio, tracking of the head pose and
location of microphones relative to the source. This will provide a ground
truth for the study of acoustic localization and separation in a
configuration little studied so far.
The main objective of the internship (6 months) is to develop tools for the
collection of multimodal data (acoustic and inertial position) of the
corpus, and realize the first pilot recordings.

Keywords: binaural localization, audio source separation, SLAM.

Profile:
- Master-level students or third-year engineering students familiar with
the subject
- Signal processing / machine learning
- Programming skills (Python, Java / Android)
- Taste for research, for fundamental work and multidisciplinary opening

Administrative Information:
- Remuneration rate of about 575€ /month
- Laboratory and location: Laboratory LIS (CNRS UMR 7020), UTLN, Toulon,
France
- Internship start: to be defined

Contacts (supervisor) - send CV and cover letter by email (subject:
internship M2 A2B)
- (MCF) Ricard MARXER: ricard.mar...@lis-lab.fr

Dr. Ricard MARXER

2018 Ecoacoustics Congress Abstract deadline extended Feb 11th

[Jessie Cappadonna]

 Hi all,


Apologies for any cross posting in advance, but I wanted to make sure folks
using acoustic sensors to investigate species and environments are aware of
the *Ecoacoustics Congress, 24-28 June in Brisbane, Australia.* Please see
below for details.

Cheers,
Jessie

-

Hello everyone,

The Ecoacoustics Congress 2018  will
be held in Brisbane, Australia from 24th to 28th June 2018. The four day
conference is organised by the International Society of Ecoacoustics (ISE)
and it will bring together researchers from different fields interested in
ecoacoustics. Ecoacoustics is an interdisciplinary science that
investigates natural and anthropogenic sounds and their relationship with
the environment over a wide range of study scales, both spatial and
temporal, including  populations, communities, and landscapes.  We are
soliciting abstracts in scientific, creative and interdisciplinary areas,
and workshop proposals.

The deadline for submission of all abstracts and proposals have been
extended: 11th February 2018.

To submit your abstract, please visit: https://ecoacousticscongress.o
rg/call-for-abstracts/

We are looking forward to seeing you in Brisbane.

Kind regards

Local organising committee (Australasian Chapter of Ecoacoustics
)

~~

*Jessie Oliver*

*Australian Citizen Science Association (ACSA)* | Management Committee
Member

Join ACSA’s Discussion Group
, Newsletter
, Project Finder


Facebook ,
Twitter , & LinkedIn
 | www.citizenscience.org.au

*Queensland University of Technology (QUT)* | PhD Student

Science and Engineering Faculty | www.ecosounds.org |

Twitter: Ecosounds , Jessie
 & Project #BristleWhistle

bioacoustics articles: JASA 143(1), January 2018

[Dave Mellinger]

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Volume 143, Issue 1, January 2018

No bioacoustics articles per se, but a couple relevant to how we collect data:

Estimating drift of directional sonobuoys from acoustic bearings
Brian S. Miller, Simon Wotherspoon, Shannon Rankin, Susannah Calderan, Russell 
Leaper, and Jennifer L. Keating
J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 143, EL25 (2018)

Pile driving acoustics made simple: Damped cylindrical spreading model
Tristan Lippert, Michael A. Ainslie, and Otto von Estorff
J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 143, 310 (2018)

Spatial decorrelation of wind noise with porous microphone windscreens
Sipei Zhao, Eva Cheng, Xiaojun Qiu, Ian Burnett, and Jacob Chia-chun Liu
J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 143, 330 (2018)

Analysis of ecoacoustic recordings, session at International Conference on Ecological Informatics, Germany, September 24-28

[Jérôme SUEUR]

Dear colleagues, 

We are pleased to announce a session entitled "Analysis of ecoacoustic 
recordings: detection, segmentation and classification" at the next 
International Conference on Ecological Informatics to be held in Jena, 
Germany, September 24-28. All information about conference organisation is 
available at http://icei2018.uni-jena.de 

This session mainly aims at sharing technical developments in sound analysis 
for ecoacoustic research (see abstract below). 

We are very keen on reading your abstracts that should be submitted before 
March, 18 at http://icei2018.uni-jena.de/calls/ 

Do no hesitate to contact us if you have any query. 

We look forward to meeting you in Jena, 

Best regards, 

Jérôme Sueur(1) and Dan Stowell(2) 

1 - Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, France 
2 - Queen Mary University of London, UK 


Abstract - Ecoacoustics is a newly emerged discipline that aims at tackling 
ecological research questions through the lens of sound analysis. Ecoacoustics 
covers several questions in marine, freshwater and terrestrial environments 
dealing with biodiversity monitoring, population ecology, community ecology and 
landscape ecology. One of the key approaches of ecoacoustics consists in 
identifying sounds of ecological importance in environmental recordings that 
were collected in an unattended way by automatic recorders. This search task is 
made difficult by the occurrence of background noise due to human activities, 
the co-occurrence of several sounds of interest, the degradation of the sounds 
of interest related to their propagation in the environment, a high-degree of 
variability of the sounds of interest, a large amount of data, and a lack of 
reference archives. Solutions including computer processes are currently in 
development to try to get around these difficulties. This session will be the 
occasion to report and share new techniques involving signal analysis, machine 
learning, deep learning and high dimension statistics for advances in 
detection, segmentation, supervised and unsupervised classification of sound 
events. 

Job: Software Engineer for Scientific Media Archive

[Janelle L. Morano]

Software Engineer for Scientific Media Archive

Cornell University

The Macaulay Library (ML) is the world’s largest (over 4,500,000 media assets) 
and oldest (started in 1929) scientific archive of biodiversity media 
recordings (audio, video and photos); it is the most heavily used archive of 
its kind in the world. ML assets are media-based biological specimens, much 
like the specimens in more traditional biological collections, but that 
uniquely capture the behavioral traits of living organisms. ML media specimens 
are used extensively in scientific research, having been cited for use in over 
1000 scientific publications. They are also used for a variety of 
non-scientific purposes, including museum exhibits, educational resources, 
mobile device apps, commercial products and artistic productions. eBird 
(ebird.org) is one of the main platforms for collecting media from the 
community and collaborates closely with ML. eBird is one of the world’s 
largest, fastest growing biodiversity databases, currently holding over 460 
million observations of birds, with contributions from every country across the 
globe. More than one million users use eBird web sites and mobile applications 
to submit data, share experiences, and explore the world of birds. Researchers, 
governments, and conservation organizations use the resulting eBird datasets 
for research and conservation projects with worldwide impact. Other projects 
that collaborate with ML include The Birds of North America Online 
(birdsna.org), Neotropical Birds (neotropicalbirds.org), and Merlin Bird ID, 
which together provide life history accounts and field ID assistance for every 
bird species in the western hemisphere.



Job Description

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology is seeking a motivated Software Engineer to lead 
efforts to manage millions of images, sounds, and videos in a scientific 
archive, the Macaulay Library. An active community of citizen scientists gather 
media with metadata (such as date and location) that are uploaded through 
online applications (including eBird), stored, and accessible for display on 
applications, and requested by researchers and educators.



Specific duties include:

•  Develop the software to support pipelines for media delivery and 
long-term, archival storage.

•  Collaborate with world-class experts and development teams on 
challenging data-intensive projects that will advance science and conservation.

•  Develop, deploy, and maintain data management, media automation systems, 
and tools that facilitate the use of media for science, education, and 
conservation.

•  Review and improve workflows for processing and managing media and 
metadata.

•  Design, implement, and test software and server systems to:  preserve, 
structure, and synchronize media metadata; allow users to find, play, preview, 
download, and license recordings; equip staff and contributors with tools to 
manage media and metadata; and automate media and metadata management.



Required Qualifications:

•  Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field, and 3-5 years 
programming experience or equivalent.

•  Two year experience designing, building, and testing web applications.

•  Proficiency using Java/Spring, Ruby/Rails, Javascript, or similar 
frameworks.

•  One year experience writing SQL.

•  Experience integrating multiple systems, and building/consuming APIs.

•  Experience using software development tools such as git, jenkins, and 
jira.

•  Experience with linux server administration.

•  Experience collaborating with a team of engineers, designers, project 
managers, and stakeholders, to solve problems and achieve common goals.

•  Able to adapt to changing priorities, situations, and demands.

•  Able to express highly technical terms in everyday language.

•  Able to participate in a team rotation for off-hours monitoring.



Preferred Qualifications:

•  Experience with Spring, Oracle, Solr, ELK, Docker.

•  Knowledge of birds, conservation, and natural science.



One-year term appointment with possibility of renewal based upon performance 
and availability of funding.



Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position; not eligible to apply.



Relocation assistance is not provided for this position.



To apply: Provide cover letter, resume, contact information for 3 references 
through the Cornell Careers 
system.
 For questions about the position or the application process, contact Sue 
Taggart (s...@cornell.edu).



The Cornell Lab of Ornithology is the world's leading resource for 
conservation, research, education, and citizen science focused on birds. The 
Lab is a vibrant unit within Cornell's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences 
(CALS), where 

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[Holger Klinck]

See attached flyer. This message was posted on behalf of Andrea Simmons 
(andrea_simm...@brown.edu).


Cheers,

Holger

--
Dr. Holger Klinck
Director of the Bioacoustics Research Program
Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Cornell University

Faculty Fellow
Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future, Cornell University

Courtesy Assistant Professor
Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Oregon State University

Mailing address:
159 Sapsucker Woods Road
Ithaca, NY 14850, USA

Tel:+1.607.254.6250
Fax:+1.607.254.2460
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New Journal of Ecoacoustics (JEA)

[Holger Klinck]

Sent on behalf of Almo Farina (almo.far...@uniurb.it)

*
Dear Colleagues,

I am pleased to announce that the International Institute of 
Ecoacoustics has founded the Journal of Ecoacoustics (JEA). The journal 
is owned by the Institute with publishing services provided by 
Veruscript (London).


JEA is an open access journal and, as such, offers authors a new 
publishing venue that maximises the visibility and citation of their 
work. All research articles are peer reviewed and an article processing 
charge of just GBP350 is charged per article.


The inaugural issue is  online from the end of October. More 
information, including submissions details, can be found at 
https://www.veruscript.com/journals/journal-of-ecoacoustics/


I invite you to submit your manuscripts for consideration. The journal 
promises to be an exciting addition to our field.


Kind regards,

Almo Farina
Editor-in-Chief
Journal of Ecoacoustics
--
..
Almo Farina
Professor of Ecology

Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Ecoacoustics 
https://www.veruscript.com/journals/journal-of-ecoacoustics/
Director of the International Institute of Ecoacoustics 
http://www.iinsteco.org/

President of the International Society of Ecoacoustics
https://sites.google.com/site/ecoacousticssociety/

Department of  Pure and Applied Sciences, The University of Urbino
Campus Scientifico  "Enrico  Mattei", 61029 Urbino - Italy
Tel: +39-0722-304301, Fax: +39-0722-304275, E-mail: almo.far...@uniurb.it

Re: Call for Applications: Bio-acoustic Structure, a NIMBioS Investigative Workshop

[Charles S. Henry]

  
  
Hello Dr. Crawley,

This promises to be a very interesting gathering.  However, where
are the insects?  As you know, more is known about acoustic
repertoires in the insects than in any other major group of
organisms.  Maybe acoustical insects can be the focus of a future
NIMBioS workshop?  They will offer many key insights, both
observational and experimental.

Best wishes,
Charlie Henry

On 1/19/2018 11:29 AM, Catherine
  Crawley wrote:


  
  The National Institute for Mathematical and
Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS) is now accepting applications for
its Investigative Workshop, "Bio-acoustic Structure," to be held
June 25-27 at NIMBioS.

Objectives: Acoustic repertoires may serve as a central
component for social cohesion, foraging, and reproduction; in
turn, these sounds may reflect population or species boundaries
for many taxa. As acoustic monitoring has increased in
popularity, so has interest in using this data to identify
population structure and quantify biological diversity. In cases
where it is difficult to obtain other biological samples,
acoustic data may be the only source of information from which
population structure can be inferred. Historically, acoustic
research on different taxa has proceeded independently,
utilizing different features and developing different methods
for classification or quantifying regional differences.
Additionally, while it is clear that there is a genetic
component to some bio-acoustic features, the degree to which
they are shaped by the environment or can be used as a proxy for
relatedness is still uncertain.

In order to make progress on the promise of using acoustics to
characterize population structure, this workshop will bring
together experts in bio-acoustics of multiple taxa, including
birds, frogs, primates, and cetaceans, with mathematicians and
computer scientists with expertise in classification,
clustering, and information theory to develop a unified
approach. This will be accomplished by: 1) compiling guidelines
of best practices for designing acoustic surveys, 2) reviewing
acoustic features of each taxon useful for identifying regional
and taxonomic differences, and 3) reviewing methods for
quantifying and comparing information content, generating
classification models, and identifying biologically significant
clusters. The results of this workshop will describe the current
state of using acoustics to assess population structure, create
a community bridging taxonomic disciplines, and provide new
non-invasive tools for conservation. Location: NIMBioS at the
University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Co-Organizers: Frederick Archer and Shannon Rankin,
Southwest Fisheries Science Center, La Jolla, CA

For more information about the workshop and a link to the online
application form, go to http://www.nimbios.org/workshops/WS_bioacoustics

Participation in NIMBioS workshops is by application only.
Individuals with a strong interest in the topic are encouraged
to apply, and successful applicants will be notified within two
weeks after the application deadline. If needed, financial
support for travel, meals, and lodging is available for workshop
attendees.

Application deadline: March 5, 2018

The National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis
(NIMBioS) (http://www.nimbios.org)
brings together researchers from around the world to collaborate
across disciplinary boundaries to investigate solutions to basic
and applied problems in the life sciences. NIMBioS is sponsored
by the National Science Foundation, with additional support from
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
* 

  Catherine Crawley, Ph.D. 

Communications Manager
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Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis
(NIMBioS) 

University of Tennessee 
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Call for Applications: Bio-acoustic Structure, a NIMBioS Investigative Workshop

[Catherine Crawley]

The National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis 
(NIMBioS) is now accepting applications for its Investigative Workshop, 
"Bio-acoustic Structure," to be held June 25-27 at NIMBioS.


*Objectives:* Acoustic repertoires may serve as a central component for 
social cohesion, foraging, and reproduction; in turn, these sounds may 
reflect population or species boundaries for many taxa. As acoustic 
monitoring has increased in popularity, so has interest in using this 
data to identify population structure and quantify biological diversity. 
In cases where it is difficult to obtain other biological samples, 
acoustic data may be the only source of information from which 
population structure can be inferred. Historically, acoustic research on 
different taxa has proceeded independently, utilizing different features 
and developing different methods for classification or quantifying 
regional differences. Additionally, while it is clear that there is a 
genetic component to some bio-acoustic features, the degree to which 
they are shaped by the environment or can be used as a proxy for 
relatedness is still uncertain.


In order to make progress on the promise of using acoustics to 
characterize population structure, this workshop will bring together 
experts in bio-acoustics of multiple taxa, including birds, frogs, 
primates, and cetaceans, with mathematicians and computer scientists 
with expertise in classification, clustering, and information theory to 
develop a unified approach. This will be accomplished by: 1) compiling 
guidelines of best practices for designing acoustic surveys, 2) 
reviewing acoustic features of each taxon useful for identifying 
regional and taxonomic differences, and 3) reviewing methods for 
quantifying and comparing information content, generating classification 
models, and identifying biologically significant clusters. The results 
of this workshop will describe the current state of using acoustics to 
assess population structure, create a community bridging taxonomic 
disciplines, and provide new non-invasive tools for conservation. 
Location: NIMBioS at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville


*Co-Organizers:* Frederick Archer and Shannon Rankin, Southwest 
Fisheries Science Center, La Jolla, CA


For more information about the workshop and a link to the online 
application form, go to http://www.nimbios.org/workshops/WS_bioacoustics


Participation in NIMBioS workshops is by application only. Individuals 
with a strong interest in the topic are encouraged to apply, and 
successful applicants will be notified within two weeks after the 
application deadline. If needed, financial support for travel, meals, 
and lodging is available for workshop attendees.


*Application deadline: March 5, 2018*

The National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis 
(NIMBioS) (http://www.nimbios.org) brings together researchers from 
around the world to collaborate across disciplinary boundaries to 
investigate solutions to basic and applied problems in the life 
sciences. NIMBioS is sponsored by the National Science Foundation, with 
additional support from The University of Tennessee, Knoxville.


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Postdoc Position: Fish Bioacoustics at Cornell University

[Aaron N. Rice]

Postdoctoral Research Associate – Fish Bioacoustics
Cornell University

The Bioacoustics Research Program (BRP) within Cornell University’s Lab of 
Ornithology is seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate to take a leadership 
role in a collaborative research project between BRP and the National Park 
Service (NPS).  Scientists from BRP and NPS have been collecting passive 
acoustic data within Florida Bay and Everglades National Park to understand the 
influence of managed freshwater flow on the Bay’s fish populations, as well as 
the underwater diversity of biological sounds within the Bay (fish, 
crustaceans, marine mammals) (see http://bit.ly/2DmUrZ5). Florida Bay is an 
important habitat for marine and estuarine fishes, and is also an important 
area for ecotourism and fishing.

This individual will be involved in configuring, deploying and recovering 
recording devices; organizing, analyzing and interpreting data; writing 
per-reviewed manuscripts; and presenting data at scientific and stakeholder 
meetings.  The position will be based at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology in 
Ithaca, NY, but will require regular travel to South Florida (3-4 short trips 
per year).  The position is currently funded for an 18-month period, but there 
is the potential to extend the appointment with additional funding.  
Opportunities also for occasionally mentoring undergraduate students, and 
participating in teaching in BRP’s Sound Analysis Workshop, which trains 
researchers from around the world in sound analysis.

Required qualifications:
• Ph.D. from an accredited institution in a relevant field (e.g., biology, 
ecology, oceanography)
• Demonstrated track record of authorship on peer-reviewed publications
• Experience in bioacoustic analysis
• Ability to deploy and recover recording instruments in the field
• Ability to work as part of a team
• Strong quantitative/statistical experience
• Ability to conduct original research, from conception to completion
• Extensive marine field research experience
• Strong communication skills and be proficient in spoken and written English
• Must have a valid driver’s license

Preferred qualifications:
• Experience with fish bioacoustics
• Experience in working with large datasets
• Experience operating small boats

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology is located at the Imogene Powers Johnson Center 
for Birds and Biodiversity in the 220-acre Sapsucker Woods sanctuary, the 
Cornell Lab of Ornithology is a vibrant unit within Cornell's University’s 
College of Agriculture & Life Sciences. More than 200 faculty and staff work at 
the Lab within our 10 mission-driven programs. Our management and staff are 
committed to the highest standards of ethics and excellence in all areas of our 
work.

For questions about the position or the project, email Dr. Aaron Rice 
(ar...@cornell.edu). To apply, please submit a cover letter, CV, and names and 
contact information for three references. Applicants must have received their 
PhD before beginning their postdoctoral appointment at Cornell. Application 
materials should be sent as a single pdf file to the attention of Sue Taggart 
(s...@cornell.edu).

Cornell University is an innovative Ivy League university and a great place to 
work. Our inclusive community of scholars, students and staff impart an 
uncommon sense of larger purpose and contribute creative ideas to further the 
university's mission of teaching, discovery and engagement. Located in Ithaca, 
NY, Cornell's far-flung global presence includes the medical college's campuses 
on the Upper East Side of Manhattan and in Doha, Qatar, as well as the new 
Cornell Tech campus on Roosevelt Island in the heart of New York City.

Cornell University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer and 
Educator.

--
Aaron N. Rice, Ph.D.
Bioacoustics Research Program
Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology
Cornell University
159 Sapsucker Woods Rd.
Ithaca, NY 14850-1999

Email: ar...@cornell.edu
Web: http://www.nbb.cornell.edu/neurobio/aaronrice

2018 Marine Bioacoustics Summer School (SeaBASS)

[Susan E Parks]

We are pleased to announce this year's Marine Bioacoustics Summer School
program (SeaBASS 2018).  The application period will be closing on Feb 28,
2018.

 

SeaBASS provides the opportunity for currently enrolled graduate students
interested in pursuing careers in marine bioacoustics to develop a strong
foundation of both marine animal biology and acoustics from distinguished
lecturers in the field.  The goals of SeaBASS are to discuss important
topics in marine bioacoustics, foster technical communication across
disciplines, and promote mentoring and collaboration.  SeaBASS gives
students an opportunity to learn from experts who will discuss a suite of
topics not often offered at any one university.  The topics covered in the
course include:

Introduction to Underwater Sound,  Sound Propagation,  Marine Mammal
Biology & Behavior,  Fisheries Acoustics/Fish Behavior,  Hearing,  Effects
of Noise, Echolocation, Passive Acoustic Monitoring & Signal processing,
and Acoustic Density Estimation.

 

WHEN:   July 8 ­ 13, 2018

WHERE: University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH

COSTS:  The costs of student attendance (room and board, based
on double occupancy for students) will be funded from sponsor support.
There is no registration fee.  Full-time participation of all participants
is required.  Travel costs are the responsibility of the student, but
travel assistance can be requested during the application process.

APPLICATION: On-line application is available at
https://marine.unh.edu/seabass

Applications deadline is February 28,2018.

 

 

Please direct questions to Dr. Jennifer Miksis-Olds (j.miksiso...@unh.edu)
or Dr. Susan Parks (spa...@syr.edu)

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