Name: International workshop. Cetacean echolocation and outer space neutrinos: ethology and physics for an interdisciplinary approach to underwater bioacoustics and astrophysical particles detection
Start: 2013-10-18T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2013-10-21T20:00:00+02:00
Location: Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture (Erice, Sicily) School of Ethology - 30th workshop

International workshop. Cetacean echolocation and outer space neutrinos: ethology and physics for an interdisciplinary approach to underwater bioacoustics and astrophysical particles detection

from Friday, October 18, 2013 (8:00 AM) to Monday, October 21, 2013 (8:00 PM)

Monday, October 14, 2013
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
Wednesday, October 16, 2013
Thursday, October 17, 2013
Friday, October 18, 2013

8:30 AM Registration formalities

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
9:00 AM Opening Ceremony
9:00 AM - 9:20 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Opening Remarks - Stefano Parmigiani (Univ. Parma)
9:20 AM Acoustical Oceanography
9:20 AM - 10:40 AM
Contributions

9:20 AM Nested Autonomy: A Robust Operational Paradigm for Adaptive and Collaborative Ocean Acoustic Sensing - Henrik Schmidt (MIT, US)
10:40 AM coffe-break

10:40 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM Acoustic communication, vocal learning and cognition in marine mammals
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Contributions

11:00 AM Overview of vocal parameters and hearing abilities in pinnipeds and cetaceans - Brandon Southall (Southall Environmental Associates, Inc.)
12:00 PM Discussion and poster session
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Contributions

12:00 PM A Smart Monitoring Platform for Underwater Noise - Paul Barker (Loughborough University (UK))

12:05 PM Acoustically derived growth rates of sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) around Ischia and Ventotene Islands (Italy): preliminary results - Daniela Silvia Pace (Univ. Roma "La Sapienza")

12:10 PM WaveShark508: an embedded multichannel high sampling rate recorer - Ivano Pelicella (Dodotronic Roma (Italy))

12:15 PM Calibrator for UHE neutrino Detection in Underwater Neutrino telescopes - Silvia Adrian-Martinez (IGIC-UPV (Spain))

12:20 PM First Results on underwater acoustic background in SMO-KM3NeT aboard NEMO Phase II - Rosaria Grasso (LNS)

12:25 PM Click and burst pulse proprieties of wildbottlenose dolphin in the Central Mediterranean Sea - Giuseppa Buscaino (IAMC-CNR Capo Granitola)

12:30 PM Biomechanical evidence of low infrasonic hearing in Mysticetes: implications for impacts - Darlene Ketten (Curtin University (AUS) and Woods Hole OI (USA))
1:00 PM Lunch: Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture (Erice, Sicily) School of Ethology - 30th workshop
Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture (Erice, Sicily) School of Ethology - 30th workshop
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
2:30 PM Astrophysics with acoustics in deep sea
2:30 PM - 4:40 PM
Contributions

2:30 PM Listening for neutrinos - from astrophysics to the deep sea - Part I - Lee Thompson (Sheffield Univ., UK)

3:20 PM Listening for neutrinos - from astrophysics to the deep sea - Part II - Sean Danaher (Northumbria University)

4:10 PM NEMO and SMO Projects - Francesco Simeone (INFN Roma, I)
4:40 PM coffe-break

4:40 PM - 5:00 PM
5:00 PM Short talks - Session I
5:00 PM - 5:45 PM
Contributions

5:00 PM SMO acoustic array: calibrations and first results - Salvatore Viola (LNS)

5:15 PM Positioning System for neutrino telescopes: SMO and KM3NeT-Italia in Capo Passero - Giuseppina Larosa (LNS)

5:30 PM Correlation between underwater noise level and AIS data in the Gulf of Catania (Sicily) - Sara Rita Pulvirenti (LNS)
5:45 PM Discussion

5:45 PM - 6:45 PM
Saturday, October 19, 2013
8:30 AM Submarine Multidisciplinary Observatories
8:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Contributions

8:30 AM EMSO - European Multidisciplinary Seafloor and water column Observatory - Paolo Favali (INGV Roma, I)

9:20 AM Expansion of the Ocean Networks Canada hydrophone network and linking with AIS monitoring - Kim Juniper (Ocean Networks Canada, University of Victoria)

10:50 AM Bioacoustic results in NEMO-SN1 ONDE and way ahead with EMSO, the European Multidisciplinary Submarine Research Infrastructure - Gianni Pavan (University of Pavia - Centro Interdisciplinare di Bioacustica e Ricerche Ambientali)

11:40 AM Listening to the Deep-Ocean: A global underwater noise monitoring initiative - Michel Andre (UPC, SP)
12:30 PM Discussion and poster session

12:30 PM - 1:00 PM

1:00 PM Lunch

1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
2:30 PM Information technology & infrastructures for acoustic data acquisition, archival and analysis
2:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Contributions

2:30 PM Underwater acoustics in Antarctica - Lars Kindermann (AWI, D)

3:20 PM Looking for spaghetti in a haystack: Semiautomatic approaches to detecting marine mammals in highly variable noise environments - Doug Gillespie (St. Andrews Univ., UK)

4:10 PM Look who’s talking – classification of whale sounds using the Whale FM Citizen Science project - Alexander von Benda-Beckman (WhaleFM/TNO)
5:00 PM Discussion and poster session

5:00 PM - 5:20 PM

5:20 PM coffe-break

5:20 PM - 5:45 PM
5:45 PM Short talks - Session II
5:45 PM - 7:35 PM
Contributions

5:45 PM Detecting the structural variability of cetacean tonal sounds by automatic detection and classification algorithms - Tzu-Hao Lin (Institute of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, National Taiwan University)

6:00 PM A preliminary investigation on the seismic air gun reverberant field in a shallow water Arctic environment - Joseph Vignola (The Catholic University of America)

6:15 PM Spatial prediction and interpolation effect assessment of marine mammal counter calls, ambient and anthropogenic noise - Jonathan Vallarta (Jasco Applied Sciences)

6:30 PM An algorithm to measure the size of sperm whales recorded by INFN deep-sea observatories in the Ionian Sea (Eastern Sicily) - Francesco Caruso (LNS)

6:45 PM Acoustic detection of fin whales vocalizations offshore Eastern Sicily, Ionian sea - Virginia Sciacca
Sunday, October 20, 2013

8:00 AM Excursion

8:00 AM - 6:00 PM

Monday, October 21, 2013
8:30 AM Interdisciplinary approach to Computational (Bio)Acoustics
8:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Contributions

8:30 AM Model-based bio-acoustics - Walter Zimmer (CRME, I)

9:20 AM 3D multiple whale tracking - Herve Glotin (Toulon Univ., F)

10:40 AM Tracking Algorithms in Marine Mammal Acoustics - Paul White (Southampton Univ., UK)
11:30 AM Advanced marine research for conservation
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Contributions

11:30 AM ARION - Systems for Coastal Dolphin Conservation in the Ligurian Sea - Mauro Gino Taiuti (GE)
12:00 PM Discussion and poster session

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

1:00 PM Lunch

1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
2:30 PM Advanced marine research for conservation
2:30 PM - 6:10 PM
Contributions

2:30 PM How new technology has revolutionized the study of cetacean bioacoustics and suggestions for new directions and collaborations for the future - Peter Tyack (St. Andrews Univ.)

3:20 PM Impact of noise on fishes and marine mammals - Hong Young Yan (Taiwan)

4:30 PM Cetacean density estimation from passive acoustic data - Tiago Marques (St. Andrews Univ., UK)

5:20 PM The Sea Finds Its Voice: Changes in the Scientific Understanding of Sound and Marine Life from 1993 to 2013. - Bob Gisiner (US Navy)
6:10 PM Concluding remarks

6:10 PM - 7:10 PM

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