DOSITS Webinars
Underwater Acoustics Webinar Series
DOSITS offers an annual webinar series addressing a variety of topics (listed below). Each session lasts an hour and features up to two presenters, followed by a Q&A with attendees. The DOSITS webinar series is open to all interested individuals. Webinars are hosted via Zoom (registration required) with a YouTube Live stream available. All webinars are recorded and archived on the website (and on Vimeo).
Professional development certificates are available to people who attend or watch the archived video of all four DOSITS webinars in a calendar year. To qualify for a Professional Development certificate, you must complete the questionnaire associated with each webinar.
For any questions or concerns about the DOSITS webinars, please contact the DOSITS Team (dosits@etal.uri.edu)
DOSITS 2025 Webinar Series
Topics for the 2025 webinar series are:
- Marine Invertebrates and Sound – April 30, 2025
- Wildlife and Offshore Wind – June 4, 2025
- Sound and Signal: How Fishes Hear and Communicate Through Sound – September 10, 2025
- Management – October, 2025
Additional details are available on the 2025 Webinar Series page.
Webinar Archives
DOSITS Acoustic Webinars 2024 Series Archive
- Saturn Project Results: Underwater Radiated Noise from Vessels
April 24, 2024
Johann Bosschers, MARIN
Christ de Jong, TNO - UN Ocean Decade: International Partnerships and Opportunities
May 15, 2024
Grace Smarsh, AAAS S&T Policy Fellow Office of Naval Research - Multibeam Echosounders (MBES)
September 18, 2024
Mike Smith, Kongsberg Discover
Hilary Kates Varghese, BOEM - Impulsive Sound and Offshore Wind
October 16, 2024
Sander von Benda-Beckmann, Acoustics and Sonar Research Group,
Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO)
DOSITS Acoustic Webinars 2023 Series Archive
- Natural Underwater Sound Overview
April, 2023
Dr. Jennifer Miksis-Olds, University of New Hampshire - Extreme Natural Sounds
June, 2023
Dr. Caplan-Auerbach, Western Washington University - Saturn Project Results: Marine Mammals and Vessel Noise
September, 2023
Dr. Dominik Nachtsheim and Dr. Charlotte Findlay. - Marine Mammals Response to Ambient Noise
October, 2023
Dr Fannie Shabangu
DOSITS Acoustic Webinars 2022 Series Archive
- Introduction to Underwater Acoustics
April 20, 2022
Dr. Joseph Warren, Stony Brook University - Acoustic Propagation Modeling
May 12, 2022
Dr. Aaron Thode, Scripps Institute of Oceanography - Consideration of Underwater Sound During Offshore Wind Developments
September 14, 2022
Dr. Jill Lewandowski, Director BOEM Environmental Assessment, Director BOEM Center for Marine Acoustics
Stan Labak, Acoustic Modeling Lead, BOEM Center for Marine Acoustics
Alex Conrad, BOEM Center for Marine Acoustics modeling team - Signal Processing 101 & Soundscapes
October 12, 2022
Dr. Kathleen Wage, George Mason University
Dr. John Ryan, Monterery Bay Aquarium Research Institute
- DOSITS 20th Anniversary Webinar
November 30, 2022
Presenters will discuss the current state of underwater acoustics knowledge and future research directions on the characterization of the underwater acoustic environment and the acoustics of marine mammals, fishes, and invertebrates.
Presenters include:
Dr. Alec Duncan
Dr. Brandon Southall
Dr. Joseph Sisneros
Dr. Louise Roberts
DOSITS Acoustic Webinars 2021 Series Archive
- Passive Acoustic Monitoring Overview: Applications for Marine Mammals and Fishes
Thursday, April 8, 2021
Dr. Sofie Van Parijs – NOAA Fisheries, Passive Acoustic Program Lead - Acoustic Tag Technologies and Applications
Friday, May 7, 2021
Dr. Susan Parks, Associate Professor of Biology, Syracuse University
Dr. Jeff Kneebone, Anderson Cabot Center for Ocean Life at the New England Aquarium - Causes of Hearing Loss in Marine Mammals
October 5, 2021
Dr. Darlene Ketten, Chief Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and Visiting Professor in Neurosciences at Brown University - Noise Abatement Systems for Impact Pile-Driving – Technical options for complying with noise limits
November 4, 2021
Dr. Michael Bellman, Institute for Technical and Applied Physics GmbH
DOSITS Acoustics Webinar Series 2020 Archive
- Fundamentals of Underwater Sound
Recorded Tuesday, June 2, 2020
by Tracianne Neilsen – Department of Physics and Astronomy, Brigham Young University - Review of NMFS Regulatory Approach to Underwater Noise – Archived recording
Thursday, July 23, 2020
by Jolie Harrison – Permits and Conservation Division, NMFS Office of Protected Resources - How are Passive Acoustics Data Used to Inform the Decision-Making Process?
Recorded Thursday, October 22, 2020
by Elizabeth Henderson – U.S. Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC), Environmental Readiness Branch - Regulation of Underwater Noise: An International Comparison
Recorded Thursday, November 19, 2020
by Klaus Lucke – JASCO Applied Sciences, Australia
DOSITS Acoustics Webinar Series 2019 Archive
- Marine Seismic Acoustic Sources
Recorded Wednesday, May 1, 2019.
Dr. Bob Gisner, International Association of Geophysical Contractors - Pile Driving and Wind Turbines
Recorded Wednesday, May 22, 2019
Dr. James Miller, URI Ocean Engineering
Dr. Kathy Vigness-Raposa, Inspire Enviromental
Dr. Jakob Tougaard, Aarhus University - Commercial Vessel Traffic
Recorded Wednesday, September 18, 2019
Michelle Sanders, Director, Environmental Policy, Transport Canada
Tabitha Takeda Chief, Marine RD&D, Innovation Centre, Transport Canada - Echosounders and Military Sonar
Recorded Thursday October 10, 2019
Dr. Kelly Benoit-Bird, Monterey Bay Research Institute (MBARI)
Dr. Frans-Peter Lam, TNO, Acoustics & Sonar research group, The Hague, NL
DOSITS Acoustics Webinar Series 2018 Archive
- Sound Reception in Marine Mammals
Recorded Tuesday, April 24, 2018.
Dr. Darlene Ketten, Senior Research Scientist in Biomedical Engineering at Boston University and Chief Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution - Potential Effects of Sound on Marine Mammals
Recorded Tuesday, May 1, 2018
Dr. Brandon Southall, President and Senior Scientist for Southall Environmental Associates - Sound Production and Reception in Teleost Fishes
Recorded Tuesday, November 13, 2018
Dr. Craig Radford, Institute of Marine Science, University of Auckland - Potential Effects of Sound on Marine Fishes
Recorded Tuesday, November 27, 2018
Dr. Arthur Popper, professor emeritus and research professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Maryland
DOSITS Acoustics Webinars 2015-2016 Archive
- Science of Sound
Recorded November 2015 - Marine Animal Sound Production & Reception Archive
Recorded December 2015 - Potential Effects of Sound on Marine Mammals Archive
Recorded March 2016 - Potential Effects of Sound on Marine Fishes Archive
Recorded May 2016 - DOSITS Webinar Summary and Questions Archive
Recorded June 2016