DOSITS Webinars

Underwater Acoustics Webinar Series

The DOSITS Team facilitates a webinar series on topics related to underwater sound for the international decision-making community and other interested communities. Each year the webinar series has a different focus (topics listed below). The webinars are generally one or two presenters, followed by questions and last between one and one and a half hours. Archives of all webinars are listed below.

Underwater Acoustics: 2020 DOSITS Webinar Series

In 2020 the DOSITS Team facilitated a free, four-part webinar series on underwater sound.

The DOSITS Webinar series is complete for 2020. Watch for an announcement about the 2021 series.

Completed 2020 Webinars

- Fundamentals of Underwater Sound – Archived recording
  Tuesday, June 2, 2020
  Tracianne Neilsen – Department of Physics and Astronomy, Brigham Young University
- Review of NMFS Regulatory Approach to Underwater Noise – Archived recording
  Thursday, July 23, 2020
  Jolie Harrison – Permits and Conservation Division, NMFS Office of Protected Resources
- How are Passive Acoustics Data Used to Inform the Decision-Making Process? – Archived recording
  Thursday, October 22, 2020 at 12pm ET
  Elizabeth Henderson – U.S. Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC), Environmental Readiness Branch
- Regulation of Underwater Noise: An International Comparison
  Thursday, November 19, 2020 at 4pm ET
  Klaus Lucke – JASCO Applied Sciences, Australia

Webinar Archives

DOSITS Acoustics Webinar Series 2019 Archive

- - Marine Seismic Acoustic Sources (Dr. Bob Gisner) took place Wednesday, May 1, 2019.
  - Pile Driving and Wind Turbines (Dr. James Miller & Dr. Kathy Vigness-Raposa, Dr. Jakob Tougaard) took place Wednesday, May 22, 2019.
  - Commercial Vessel Traffic (Michelle Sanders & Tabitha Takeda) took place Wednesday, September 18, 2019
  - Echosounders and Military Sonar (Dr. Kelly Benoit-Bird and Dr. Frans-Peter Lam) took place Thursday October 10, 2019,

DOSITS Acoustics Webinar Series 2018 Archive

- - Sound Reception in Marine Mammals (Dr. Darlene Ketten) took place Tuesday, April 24, 2018.
  - Potential Effects of Sound on Marine Mammals (Dr. Brandon Southall) took place Tuesday, May 1, 2018.
  - Sound Production and Reception in Teleost Fishes (Dr. Craig Radford) took place Tuesday, November 13, 2018.
  - Potential Effects of Sound on Marine Fishes (Dr. Arthur Popper) took place Tuesday, November 27, 2018.

DOSITS Acoustics Webinars 2015-2016 Archive