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: 2021 DOSITS Webinar Series

- Potential Effects of Sound on Marine Mammal Hearing
  September, 2021 – Registration to be announced in August
  Dr. Darlene Ketten, Senior Research Scientist, Hearing Center in Biomedical Engineering at Boston University and Chief Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
- Overview of Underwater Sound Mitigation/Abatement
  October, 2021
  Dr. Michael Bellman, Institut für technische und angewandte Physik GmbH

Webinar Archives

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

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