Dear MarMam and ECS Communities,
We like to invite you to participate in a
workshop titled:
"Static Acoustic Monitoring (SAM) of toothed
whales using echolocation
clicks: Loggers, Experience, Advances and Challenges"
which will be held on Sunday, April 30th 2017
form 9:00-18:00 in
Middelfart, Denmark, a day before the begin of the 31st
Conference of the
European Cetacean Society.
This workshop is organized by Line A. Kyhn,
Nick Tregenza, Mats Amundin,
Jakob Tougaard and Jens Koblitz
The participation fee is 25 € to be paid in
cash on site.
To register, please e-mail Jens Koblitz at
Jens.Koblitz@bioacousticsnetwork.org
We are excited to have Armando
Jaramillo talking about acoustic monitoring of the Vaquita
population and Len
Thomas giving an introduction on
the estimation of population size based on SAM data.
This workshop aims to focus on the issues that
impact efforts to use Static
Acoustic Monitoring of echolocation clicks. SAM 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.
The following sessions
are scheduled:
1) Equipment. Various companies
will present their devices allowing
direct comprison. Devices to be presented: PODs, SM4s,
SoundTraps, Decimus,
icListens, Middelfart Listening Station
2) Classifier performance, species
ID, next generation SAM
devices, effect of noise
3) Density Estimation,
comparability of methods, detection
functions, cue production
4) SAM projects: design, logistics,
managing, analyzing and
presenting large date sets
We
have limited time for few contributed
presentations and welcome submission of abstracts for short
presentations on any
of the topics covered in this workshop. Please submit your
abstract with your
registration by e-mail until April 1st.
We
are looking forward to
seeing you in Middelfart,
Jens
(on behalf of all
organizers)
-- Jens C. Koblitz BioAcousticsNetwork Eichenallee 32 a 41469 Neuss Germany Home: +41 (0) 56 55 876 20 Cell: +49 (0) 1512-2236452 www.BioAcousticsNetwork.org