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

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

Upcoming Webinars:

Regulatory Approach to Underwater Noise, U.S. Approach Compared to that of the E.U. and Other Locations
Thursday, November 19, 2020 at 4pm ET
Klaus Lucke – JASCO Applied Sciences, Australia

Go to the 2020 DOSITS Webinar page to register

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

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