Conference and Workshops on Passive Acoustics for Monitoring Marine Mammals at Sea: Second Announcement PAMGUARD is convening a conference on passive acoustics for monitoring marine mammals at sea and will be introducing, demonstrating and providing hands on experience with the PAMGUARD software, which is an integrated open source software package for processing and analysing either real time or archived input data from both towed and fixed hydrophones. The PAMGUARD project is a research activity currently supported by the OGP E&P Sound and Marine Life JIP (originally supported by the Industry Research Funders Coalition (IRFC)) The meeting will be held over two days 28th and 29th March 2007 at Herriot Watt University, Edinburgh UK. A one day conference on 28th will be followed by a day of focused workshops and hands on training sessions. The event will be of interest to participants from a range of organisations including: * Commercial Scientific and Military Operators of sound sources in the Marine Environment * Marine biology researchers and academics * Regulators * Marine Mammal Observers and PAM operators * MMO/PAM service providers * Equipment developers and providers * Software Developers For more information and to register please visit the conference website at www.pamguard.org/conference2007/ NOTE: Those who pre-registered on the PAMGARDMeedting google site should register fully at www.pamguard.org/conference2007/