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, 18 October 2013 (08:00) to Monday, 21 October 2013 (20:00)

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

08:30

08:30 - 09:00
09:00
09:00 - 09:20
Contributions

09:00 Opening Remarks - Stefano Parmigiani (Univ. Parma)
09:20
09:20 - 10:40
Contributions

09:20 Nested Autonomy: A Robust Operational Paradigm for Adaptive and Collaborative Ocean Acoustic Sensing - Henrik Schmidt (MIT, US)
10:40

10:40 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 12:00
Contributions

11:00 Overview of vocal parameters and hearing abilities in pinnipeds and cetaceans - Brandon Southall (Southall Environmental Associates, Inc.)
12:00
12:00 - 13:00
Contributions

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

12:05 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 WaveShark508: an embedded multichannel high sampling rate recorer - Ivano Pelicella (Dodotronic Roma (Italy))

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

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

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

12:30 Biomechanical evidence of low infrasonic hearing in Mysticetes: implications for impacts - Darlene Ketten (Curtin University (AUS) and Woods Hole OI (USA))
13:00 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
13:00 - 14:30
14:30
14:30 - 16:40
Contributions

14:30 Listening for neutrinos - from astrophysics to the deep sea - Part I - Lee Thompson (Sheffield Univ., UK)

15:20 Listening for neutrinos - from astrophysics to the deep sea - Part II - Sean Danaher (Northumbria University)

16:10 NEMO and SMO Projects - Francesco Simeone (INFN Roma, I)
16:40

16:40 - 17:00
17:00
17:00 - 17:45
Contributions

17:00 SMO acoustic array: calibrations and first results - Salvatore Viola (LNS)

17:15 Positioning System for neutrino telescopes: SMO and KM3NeT-Italia in Capo Passero - Giuseppina Larosa (LNS)

17:30 Correlation between underwater noise level and AIS data in the Gulf of Catania (Sicily) - Sara Rita Pulvirenti (LNS)
17:45

17:45 - 18:45
Saturday, 19 October 2013
08:30
08:30 - 12:30
Contributions

08:30 EMSO - European Multidisciplinary Seafloor and water column Observatory - Paolo Favali (INGV Roma, I)

09:20 Expansion of the Ocean Networks Canada hydrophone network and linking with AIS monitoring - Kim Juniper (Ocean Networks Canada, University of Victoria)

10:50 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 Listening to the Deep-Ocean: A global underwater noise monitoring initiative - Michel Andre (UPC, SP)
12:30

12:30 - 13:00

13:00

13:00 - 14:30
14:30
14:30 - 17:00
Contributions

14:30 Underwater acoustics in Antarctica - Lars Kindermann (AWI, D)

15:20 Looking for spaghetti in a haystack: Semiautomatic approaches to detecting marine mammals in highly variable noise environments - Doug Gillespie (St. Andrews Univ., UK)

16:10 Look who’s talking – classification of whale sounds using the Whale FM Citizen Science project - Alexander von Benda-Beckman (WhaleFM/TNO)
17:00

17:00 - 17:20

17:20

17:20 - 17:45
17:45
17:45 - 19:35
Contributions

17:45 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)

18:00 A preliminary investigation on the seismic air gun reverberant field in a shallow water Arctic environment - Joseph Vignola (The Catholic University of America)

18:15 Spatial prediction and interpolation effect assessment of marine mammal counter calls, ambient and anthropogenic noise - Jonathan Vallarta (Jasco Applied Sciences)

18:30 An algorithm to measure the size of sperm whales recorded by INFN deep-sea observatories in the Ionian Sea (Eastern Sicily) - Francesco Caruso (LNS)

18:45 Acoustic detection of fin whales vocalizations offshore Eastern Sicily, Ionian sea - Virginia Sciacca
Sunday, 20 October 2013

08:00

08:00 - 18:00

Monday, 21 October 2013
08:30
08:30 - 11:30
Contributions

08:30 Model-based bio-acoustics - Walter Zimmer (CRME, I)

09:20 3D multiple whale tracking - Herve Glotin (Toulon Univ., F)

10:40 Tracking Algorithms in Marine Mammal Acoustics - Paul White (Southampton Univ., UK)
11:30
11:30 - 12:00
Contributions

11:30 ARION - Systems for Coastal Dolphin Conservation in the Ligurian Sea - Mauro Gino Taiuti (GE)
12:00

12:00 - 13:00

13:00

13:00 - 14:30
14:30
14:30 - 18:10
Contributions

14:30 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.)

15:20 Impact of noise on fishes and marine mammals - Hong Young Yan (Taiwan)

16:30 Cetacean density estimation from passive acoustic data - Tiago Marques (St. Andrews Univ., UK)

17:20 The Sea Finds Its Voice: Changes in the Scientific Understanding of Sound and Marine Life from 1993 to 2013. - Bob Gisiner (US Navy)
18:10

18:10 - 19:10