A new release of the ESME acoustic simulator is available for download from http://esme.bu.edu/download/index.shtml. This version includes sound-field calculations as well as animal exposure statistics. The simulator uses the 3MB animal movement model developed by Dorian Houser. This version uses compiled MATLAB scripts to generate graphics for the animal exposure statistics so if you don't already have the MATLAB runtime environment installed, you will be automatically prompted to download the runtime environment (its free). Note: A known bug <http://hrcbugzilla.bu.edu/show_bug.cgi?id=139> exists which will cause ESME to crash on startup on machines whose current language localization is set to a non-English setting. This bug affects several modules in the software so it is taking some time to resolve all the problems. A new release of ESME will be issued as soon as this bug is fixed. Until that time, the temporary fix is to temporarily change the language localization to English -- see this Microsoft help page<http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/install-or-change-a-display-language> for more information. -- David C. Mountain, Ph.D. Professor of Biomedical Engineering Boston University 44 Cummington St. Boston, MA 02215 Email: dcm@bu.edu Website: http://www.bu.edu/hrc/research/laboratories/auditory-biophysics/ Phone: (617) 353-4343 FAX: (617) 353-6766 Office: ERB 413