We like to announce a workshop titled: "Passive Acoustic Monitoring
(PAM) of marine mammals" at the upcoming 22nd Biennial Conference of
the Marine Mammal Society. This two day workshop will take place on
Saturday 28th and Sunday 29th of October.
Passive Acoustic Monitoring (PAM) has now been used in several large
projects that have produced results that could not be achieved by
other methods within realistic budgets, but it is a young method
with multiple challenges. This workshop aims to focus on all issues
that impact efforts to use PAM of all marine mammals and present
recently finished and ongoing projects. Both, static acoustic
monitoring as well as towed systems will be presented and three
taxa, namely toothed whales, baleen whales and pinnipeds are
covered.
In a novel format, we will combine tutorials on equipment,
detectors, classifiers and density estimation with invited talks by
experts in the field and some contributed presentations.
Topics of the workshop will include:
1. Available instruments, methods of data analysis and comparison
thereof
2. Performance of classifiers including false positive rates, noise
impacts, and time costs
3. Species identification
4. Detection functions, including cue rates, detectability
5. Density estimates, comparability with other methods
6. Large PAM projects, project design, long-term monitoring and
MPAs, logistics, managing, analyzing and presenting large date sets
7. Future developments
We have limited space for few contributed presentations and welcome
submission of abstracts for short presentations on any of the topics
covered in this workshop. Please e-mail Jens Koblitz at
Jens.Koblitz@bioacousticsnetwork.org if you are interested in
presennting at this workshop.