Acoustic Communication by Animals Second International Conference August 12-15, 2008 Corvallis, Oregon USA This conference will bring together senior scholars, mid-career researchers and teachers, young investigators, and students to share ideas, data, and methods in the growing and exciting field of animal acoustic communication. The emphasis in the conference will be to share information across animal taxa and to enable young investigators and students to meet and share ideas with more established investigators in the field. Toward this end, the keynote speakers at the conference will be Dr. Peter Marler Dr. Peter Slater who will provide insights from their lifetime of studying animal communication. Topics ------ Some of the special sessions we plan to have include · Development and evolution of animal communication · Communication in noisy environments · Modern techniques in measuring and analyzing complex animal sounds · Sound production mechanisms · Effects of anthropogenic sounds on animals · Cognition and language · Echolocation · Hearing and sound discrimination · Signal design · Mimicry · Physiology and anatomy · New equipment and software Other topics are welcome too. Invited speakers ---------------- The following invited speakers will attend: Whitlow Au: Sound detection and echolocation by dolphins Andrew Bass: Communication in fishes Eliot Brenowitz: Vocal communication in songbirds Robert Dooling: Bird hearing Richard Fay: Fish hearing and sound production Albert Feng: Neural basis of sound communication in complex environments Tecumseh Fitch: Mammalian sound communication Ronald Hoy: Communication strategies in insects Dave Kastak: Pinniped hearing Peter Narins: Vertebrate seismic communication Caitlin O'Connell-Rodwell: Elephant low frequency and seismic reception Kazuo Okanoya: Evolution of signal complexity in birds and humans Arthur Popper: New ideas on evolution of hearing Robert Seyfarth: Primate communication and social behavior Andrea Megela Simmons: Chorus dynamics in frogs James Simmons: Sound detection by bats Joseph Sisneros: Neural mechanisms of fish AnnMarie Surlykke: Bat echolocation Terry Takahashi: Hearing and localization Sophie Van Parijs: Pinniped hearing Student funding --------------- We will have funding for some students to travel to the conference. More details will be released shortly. Further information is available at the conference web site: http://oregonstate.edu/conferences/animalcommunication2008/ Hope to see you there! The conference scientific committee: Whitlow W.L. Au, Co-chair, University of Hawaii Andrea Megela Simmons, Co-chair, Brown University David K. Mellinger, Co-chair, Oregon State University Arthur N. Popper, University of Maryland Richard R. Fay, Loyola University of Chicago Charles Schmid, Vice-Chair, Acoustical Society of America