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WORKSHOP ON PREDICTING POPULATION CONSEQUENCES OF NOISE ON MARINE MAMMALS
In conjunction with a study on Characterizing Biologically Significant
Marine Mammal Behavior being conducted by the National Research
Council's Ocean Studies Board, a workshop on will be held March 5-6,
2004. The workshop will serve as a forum for the discussion of a
conceptual framework to produce a practical process to help regulators
assess the risk that specific acoustic sources will have negative
impacts on a marine mammal population by disrupting normal behavioral
patterns. The study committee proposes a process to link acoustic
stimuli to behavioral responses integrated over daily and seasonal
cycles in a way that links to life history parameters. To do this they
will use a transfer function approach. In this approach the first
stage will be to predict specific behavioral responses to sound. The
second stage will be to evaluate the extent to which the behavioral
responses compromise processes that are widely recognized as critical
to life history. Four panels will be conducted on the first day of the
workshop, followed by breakout groups and discussion on the second
day.
For further information on the workshop please contact Joanne Bintz at
[EMAIL PROTECTED] or by calling 202-334-2742.
The workshop will be held at the National Academies Building, Lecture
Hall, 2101 Constitution Avenue, Washington, DC and will include a
dinner for NRC Committee members, workshop panelists, and
pre-registered attendees who have paid a $40 fee. To register for the
workshop and dinner, please contact Sarah Capote at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or
call 202-334-3141 before February 25, 2004.
Please check the website, www.nas.edu/osb and select the link for
Describing Biologically Significant Marine Mammal Behavior for a draft
agenda and additional information. The committee roster includes
Doug Wartzok (Chair), Florida International University
Jeanne Altman, Princeton University
Whitlow Au, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Katherine Ralls, Smithsonian National Zoological Park
Anthony Starfield, University of Minnesota
Peter Tyack, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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