Dear Colleagues, We are organizing a workshop on “Assessing the responses of marine mammals to anthropogenic acoustic disturbance” at the SMM Conference in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada on Saturday 28th October 2017. We will focus on four main themes: 1) Baseline data and models, 2) Assessing individual responses to anthropogenic sounds, 3) Modeling population-level and cumulative effects of acoustic disturbance, 4) Application to best management practices. A summary of the workshop and draft agenda can be provided upon request. If your research would be relevant, and you are interested in participating, there are still spaces available to give a 15-minute talk at the workshop. Please let us know by 1st September if you are interested. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us. Many thanks, Helen Bailey (hbailey@umces.edu) and Aaron Rice (arice@cornell.edu) -- Aaron N. Rice, Ph.D. Bioacoustics Research Program Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology Cornell University 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd. Ithaca, NY 14850-1999 Email: arice@cornell.edu Web: http://www.nbb.cornell.edu/neurobio/aaronrice