in it.
--Dave Mellinger
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A five-year series of Bioacoustical Oceanography courses will be initiated
this summer at Friday Harbor Laboratories in Friday Harbor, WA. The series
will renew the tradition of training courses held on this topic during the
summers of 1993 - 1998. A primary goal of the proposed courses is to
provide advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and postdoctoral
investigators with a broad understanding of the acoustic tools and
techniques used to address basic questions associated with the distribution
and behavior of marine mammals, their prey field, and their
physical/chemical environment. By bringing together many of the top
researchers in marine bioacoustics, biological oceanography, and marine
mammal biology, cross-disciplinary exchange will be achieved. The students
will have a unique opportunity to work side by side with active scientists
using state-of-the-art tools and techniques. The courses also will act as a
research magnet, attracting scientists to conduct their own research in a
creative teaching environment that will catalyze future interactions across
disciplines.
For more information on this summer's course, including application
materials, please visit <a
href="http://depts.washington.edu/fhl/classlist03.html";
rel="nofollow">http://depts.washington.edu/fhl/classlist03.html</a>.
Additional information on this course and advanced follow-on courses is
available from Chuck Greene at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
A. Workshop Formats
We propose to conduct a five-year series of Bioacoustical Oceanography
Workshops beginning in the summer of 2003 and concluding in January 2007.
These workshops will be held to train advanced undergraduates, graduate
students, and postdoctoral investigators in the fundamental principles of
bioacoustical oceanography. A primary goal of the proposed workshops is to
provide students with a broad understanding of the acoustic tools and
techniques used to address basic questions associated with the distribution
and behavior of marine mammals, their prey field, and their
physical/chemical environment.
Two types of workshops are proposed, roughly following the formats that
worked so successfully during the workshops held between 1993 and 1998. The
first type of workshop will serve as an overall introduction to the field,
including lectures on the following subjects:
Principles of Underwater Sound, Signal Processing, Zooplankton & Fisheries
Acoustics, Marine Mammal Bioacoustics, Assessing Distribution & Abundance,
Predator-Prey Ecology & Behavior, Complementary Methods, and Data
Management, Analysis & Visualization (Appendix Table A1). Most of these
subjects have been covered in previous workshops; however, the last two,
Complementary Methods, and Data Management, Analysis & Visualization,
represent a significant expansion in the scope of what we intend to cover.
We believe that the use of complimentary methods involving satellite remote
sensing, video plankton microscopy, and time-depth recorders are so
important to the advancement of integrated field studies that they deserve
special attention in our basic workshop. The basic workshop will be offered
twice, once during summer 2003 and once during summer 2005. Both will be
run as 5-week courses at the University of Washington's Friday Harbor
Laboratories in Friday Harbor, WA. Twelve students will be invited to
participate in each of these workshops. The first workshop in the new
series will coincide with the 10th anniversary of the first workshop held
at Friday Harbor during summer 1993.
The second type of workshop, comparable to what we offered in 1996 and
1998, will provide more advanced training to eight students from the basic
course (or ones who can document a comparable level of experience in their
application materials). These students will be given an opportunity to
participate fully in an ongoing research program (Appendix Table A2). Four
3-week advanced workshops are proposed here, all offered on the Big Island
of Hawaii during January 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007. In all advanced
workshops, students will attend orientation lectures by workshop faculty
during the first week, participate on a research cruise during the second
week, and analyze results and prepare short reports on their findings
during the third week. Written summaries will be included in an annual
report for each workshop. As with the previous series of workshops, one of
our principal goals is to have students conduct cutting-edge research that
can be published afterwards (Greene, C.H., K.M. Fristrup, T.K. Stanton, R.
Gisiner, and R.C. Tipper. 1998. Bioacoustical oceanography: an
introduction. Deep-Sea Res. II 45: 1151-1153.).
B. Faculty, Visiting Lecturers, and Seminar Speakers
The Bioacoustical Oceanography Workshops proposed for 2003-2007 will have
14 core faculty members (Appendix Table A3). These faculty members will be
responsible for the lectures as well as the supervision of research
projects. Although these faculty members are capable of covering the full
range of subject matter addressed by our workshops, we prefer to bring in
certain visitors to present special lectures and seminars. In the past, we
have invited individuals to present topics in which they are the
world-recognized authority. We plan to maintain this tradition and
therefore request funds to support three to four lecturers and seminar
speakers per year in addition to the core faculty members.
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Charles H. Greene, Director
Ocean Resources and Ecosystems Program
Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences
2130 Snee Hall, Cornell University Telephone: (607) 255-5449
Ithaca, NY 14853-2701 FAX: (607) 254-4780
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