Beam Reach

Beam Reach has made quite a contribution at the Paris 2008 Acoustics Conference.  Jason’s report on his elephant footfalls was well received on Monday with his work on new census techniques fitting in well with the many talks on marine acoustics survey techniques.  My talk on documenting ‘communication’ between a calf and its mom/brother elicited some good questions and much conversation on just what is conversation anyway afterwards in the halls and at lunch.  And Kenna brought Zipf’s slope to the attention of the marine mammal community and she did an excellent job of both presenting and answering the large number of questions that her talk elicited.  People came up to me afterwards and said “is she really an undergraduate?

I have talked about Beam Reach with many acousticians here and the 100 or so people in attendance of the marine mammal sessions certainly have seen Beam Reach returning research results to the community.  I know that this will enhance the program and I hope that the word about what Beam Reach can accomplish spreads to draw in excited and qualified applicants in tthe future.