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 1^st . 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