Webinar Archive: Impulsive Sound and Offshore Wind

October 16, 2024 – Register here: (https://uri-edu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ZEzYZUUKTcSjYCx4fqTzqA)

Dr. Sander von Benda-Beckmann, Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO)

Dr. Sander von Benda-Beckmann obtained a PhD in computational cosmology and has been working in the field of sonar and underwater sound at TNO since 2008. His research focuses on assessing and mitigating of risk of underwater sound on marine mammals, biosonar, and the development of real-time passive and active sonar systems. He is involved in different international research groups that investigates the impact of sound (pile driving, sonar, shipping, seismic exploration, underwater explosions) on marine life. He advises the Netherlands Government and the Royal Netherland Navy on the development of guidelines for underwater noise, is part of the NATO Active Sonar Risk Mitigation (ASRM) Working Group. In 2024 he organized the bi-annual international DCLDE workshop aimed at passive acoustic monitoring of marine mammals. In 2014 he was awarded the A B WOOD MEDAL by the UK Institute of Acoustics, “in recognition of the major contribution of research to assessing impact of underwater sound on marine mammals and the development of real-time passive and active sonar for detecting objects in water.”