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.

Watch the webinar recordings linked below and join us in 2022 for the next DOSITS Webinar Series.

DOSITS 2022 Webinar Series

2022 Webinar Schedule

Consideration of Underwater Sound During Offshore Wind Developments
September 14, 2022 at 12pm EDT – Register for the Webinar
Dr. Jill Lewandowski, BOEM Environmental Assessment Division Chief
Dr. Erica Staaterman, Bioacoustician Bureau of Ocean Energy Management
Signal Processing 101 & Soundscapes
October 12, 2022 at 12pm EDT
Dr. Kathleen Wage, George Mason University
Dr. John Ryan, Monterery Bay Aquarium Research Institute
DOSITS 20th Anniversary Special Webinar
November 2022
Date TBA

Webinar Archives

DOSITS Acoustic Webinars 2022 Series Archive

Introduction to Underwater Acoustics
April 20, 2022 at 1:30pm EDT
Dr. Joseph Warren, Stony Brook University
Acoustic Propagation Modeling
May 12, 2022 at 12pm EDT
Dr. Aaron Thode, Scripps Institute of Oceanography

DOSITS Acoustic Webinars 2021 Series Archive

Passive Acoustic Monitoring Overview: Applications for Marine Mammals and Fishes
Thursday, April 8, 2021 at 12:00pm ET
Dr. Sofie Van Parijs – NOAA Fisheries, Passive Acoustic Program Lead
Acoustic Tag Technologies and Applications
Friday, May 7, 2021 at 12:00pm ET
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 (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