Dear All, A notice about the Fifth International Conference on Bio-Acoustics, to be held at Holywell Park, Loughborough University, UK on the 31st March - 2nd April 2009. The conference has over 50 scheduled presentations and posters covering a extremely diverse series of topics on bioacoustics including sessions on Insects and Amphibians, Fish, Noise and Hearing, Birds, Detection and Assessment, Classification, Bio-inspired and Marine Mammal Behaviour. Keynote presentations include: Layered biosonar images with unified spatial dimensions in bat echolocation J A Simmons, Brown University Automatically identifying animal species from their vocalizations I Agranat, Wildlife Acoustics, Inc and Robot models of cricket auditory behaviour B Webb, University of Edinburgh Registration for attendance is now open. Details of the registration and programme can be found on the conference website at : http://bioacoustics2009.lboro.ac.uk/ Hope you can make it, Best regards, Paul Paul Lepper, PhD Senior Research Fellow, Underwater Acoustics Research, Loughborough University, LE11 3TU, UK On behalf of the bioacoustics2009 organizing committee