Last update: 3/13/2007

Upcoming conferences and events

• Mar 16-18: 2007 Southeast and Mid-Atlantic Marine Mammal Symposium (Beaufort, NC). Abstracts due Jan 31, 2007.
• Mar 26-29: Puget Sound/Georgia Basin research conference (Vancouver, BC). Abstracts due Nov 01, 2006.
• Apr 10-13: Marine Mammals in Deep Time: Diversity, Distribution and Evolution (Melbourne, Australia). 3rd International Symposium on Marine Mammal Palaeontology and Evolution. This symposium will be held as part of the 11th Conference on Vertebrate, Evolution, Palaeontology and Systematics (CAVEPS)
• Apr 14-16: NW Student Chapter of the Society of Marine Mammalogy (Seattle, WA).
• Apr 22-25: Integrating Science and Management for Marine Mammal Conservation (San Sebastian, Spain). Abstracts due Dec 08, 2006; early reg ends Feb 25, 2007.
• May 01-02: Potential Application of Quieting Technology on Large Commercial Vessels (Silverspring, Maryland)
• Jun 04-08: 153rd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (Salt Lake City, UT)
• Jun 25-29: Underwater Acoustic Measurements (Heraklion, Greece)
• Jul 24-26: 3rd International Workshop on Detection and Localization of Marine Mammals using Passive Acoustics (Boston, Massachusetts). Abstracts due April 01.
• Aug 13-17: Effects of noise on aquatic organisms (Nyborg, Denmark). Abstracts due April 01.
• Sep 15-18: IBAC Meeting, the XXI International Bioacoustics Congress (Pavia, Italy)
• Sep 29 - Oct 04: Oceans 2007 MTS/IEEE-OES conference (Vancouver, Canada) Focus on seafloor observatories like Neptune and Venus; reg opens Apr 01
• Oct 03-05, 2007: Pacific Rim Underwater Acoustics Conference (PRUAC) (Vancouver, Canada). Focus of this first PRUAC will be on underwater noise; reg begins Mar 01; abstracts due Apr 30; extended abstracts due Jul 09; 25% off fee if co-registering for Oceans 2007.
• Nov 29 - Dec 03: 17th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals (Cape Town, South Africa).

• 2006-2007: Charting the Course for Ocean Science in the United States (national). Town hall meetings and panel discussions that will guide U.S. research priorities for the next decade.
• 2006 opportunity archive

Job opportunities

• None at the moment...

Volunteer opportunities

• Intern at Cetacean Research Technology (Seattle, WA; contact Joe Olson)

Advanced coursework

• Chuck Greene's courses
  • Acoustics unit in the Marine Ecosystems Field Course, Cornell University Field Program in Earth and Environmental Systems; Hawaii, winter 2007? (undergraduate)
  • Marine Bioacoustics Course; FHL, Jul16-Aug18, 2007 (graduate-level)

Related non-graduate programs

• Humpack vessel interaction internship; Hawaii, 2 weeks in January, cost ~$2000

Graduate programs

• Acoustical Society of America: Directory of Graduate Education in Acoustics
• Oregon State University Marine Mammal Institute

Networking tools

• Where to publish (in the field of Conservation Science) [from Santa Clara U]