Program

Monday 8th july

9.00 - 13.00 h.

Scientific Workshop. Introduction to machine learning techniques for passive acoustic monitoring

Aula 001

    Coordinator & Speaker:
    Juan Sebastián Cañas Silva

    Instituto Humboldt. Colombia

    Speakers:
    Santiago Ruíz Guzmán

    University of Pittsburgh. USA

    Mélisande Teng

    Université de Montréal/Mila. Canada

 

9.00 - 13.00 h.

Scientific Workshop. BirdNET for all: creating custom ML models with the BirdNET GUI

Aula 002

    Coordinator & Speaker:
    Larissa Sayuri M. Sugai

    K Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics, Cornell lab of Ornithology, USA

    Speakers:
    Dena Clink

    K Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics, Cornell lab of Ornithology, USA

    Wendy Erb

    K Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics, Cornell lab of Ornithology, USA

    Josef Haupt

    BirdNET team, Germany

    Max Mauermann

    BirdNET team, Germany

 

10.45 - 11.15 h.

Coffee break

 

11.15 - 13.00 h.

Symposium. Art and Ecoacoustics

Sala de Grados

    Chairperson:
    Laia Malo

    Spain

Compositions and installations with eco- and bio-acoustic sounds: intentions, methods, processes and insights.

    Speaker:
    Kirsten Reese

    Germany

A personal journey through soundscapes.

    Speaker:
    Eloisa Matheu

    Spain

Insecta Dance Music. Electronica from Balearic insect sounds.

    Speakers:
    Laia Malo

    Spain

    Jaume Reus-Viver

    Spain

Roar - meaning (Video)

    Speaker:
    Martín Virgili

    Centro de Arte y Ciencia de la UTN Mar del Plata (Argentina)

General discussion

 

13.00 - 14.30 h.

Time for lunch

 

14.30 - 15.30 h.

Welcome session

Salón de Actos

 

15.30 - 16.30 h.

Plenary Talk. The acoustic ecology of insect-plant interactions

Salón de Actos

    Speaker:
    Reginald B. Cocroft

    Division of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri, USA

    Chairperson:
    Julia Gómez Catasús

    Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain

 

16.45 - 17.45 h.

Open Talks. 1: Advances in BirdNET. Part 1

Salón de Actos

    Chairperson:
    Dena Clink

    K Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics, Cornell lab of Ornithology, USA

The potential of acoustic monitoring to inform and expand common bird monitoring

    Speaker:
    Mark Wilson

    Head of Science, British Trust for Ornithology Scotland, Stirling, UK

Towards Automated Quantification of Species Detectability in Passively Recorded Audio with Simulated Data and Machine Learning

    Speaker:
    Ruari Marshall-Hawkes

    Department of Zoology. University of Cambridge. Cambridge. United Kingdom.

Methods of acoustic data analysis affect species detectability in passive acoustic monitoring

    Speaker:
    Dominika Winiarska

    Department of Behavioural Ecology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland

Evaluation and application of BirdNET: identification of bird species by their sounds

    Speaker:
    Yi-Chin Tseng

    PhD in Avian Acoustics. Passive acoustic monitoring. University of Northern British Columbia. Prince George. Canada

 

16.45 - 17.45 h.

Open Talks. 2: Biotremology and soil acoustics

Aula 002

    Chairperson:
    Renata S. Sousa-Lima

    EAR Hub, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil

Is it possible to improve carbon cycle models using soil acoustics? A call for interdisciplinary research collaboration between the greenhouse gas flux and the ecoacoustics communities

    Speaker:
    Carolyn-Monika Görres

    Scientist, Hochschule Geisenheim University, Geisenheim, Germany

Soil acoustics in tropical forests

    Speaker:
    Oliver Metcalf

    Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University. UK

Ecoacoustics for soil health – the sounds of the underground

    Speaker:
    Carlos Abrahams

    Baker consultants. UK

 

16.45 - 17.45 h.

Symposium. Sound archives present and future: new challenges of ecoacoustics development

Sala de Grados

    Chairperson:
    Paulo A. M. Marques

    MARE – Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre / ARNET - Aquatic Research Network; Ispa – Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas, Sociais e da Vida, Lisboa, Portugal.

Availability and preservation of Passive Acoustic Monitoring (PAM) recordings for future use

    Speaker:
    Paulo A. M. Marques

    MARE – Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre / ARNET - Aquatic Research Network; Ispa – Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas, Sociais e da Vida, Lisboa, Portugal.

Fonoteca Zoológica of the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC) present and future

    Speaker:
    Rafael Ignacio Marquez

    Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC). Spain

Xeno-canto a large worldwide community of sound recordists

    Speaker:
    Willem-Pier Vellinga

    Xeno-canto.org, Stichting Xeno-canto voor natuurgeluiden/Xeno-canto Foundation

General discussion

 

18.00 - 19.00 h.

Open Talks. 3: Advances in BirdNET. Part 2

Salón de Actos

    Chairperson:
    Wendy Erb

    K Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics, Cornell lab of Ornithology, USA

Low-cost recorders and BirdNET: An effective combination for monitoring nocturnal and cryptic aquatic birds

    Speaker:
    Robert Manzano Rubio

    Knowledge Transfer & Technology Specialist. CTFC. Solsona. Spain

Evaluating bioacoustic detection software on migrant songbirds in the tropics during the non-breeding season

    Speaker:
    Dhruv Varun Cohen

    Student. Cornell University. Ithaca, NY. United States of America

Gunshots and gibbons: how transfer learning can improve monitoring efforts of a protected area in Cambodia

    Speaker:
    Dena Clink

    K Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics, Cornell lab of Ornithology, USA

Using BirdNET embeddings to find threatened species: A case study using the Australian Acoustic Observatory

    Speaker:
    Slade Allen-Ankins

    James Cook University, Townsville, Australia

 

18.00 - 19.00 h.

Open Talks. 4: Monitoring flying insects

Aula 002

    Chairperson:
    Valentina Zaffaroni Caorsi

    Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences. University of Milano-Bicocca. Milan. Italy

Balearic Buzzings, a sound guide for pollinators

    Speaker:
    Jaume Reus Viver

    Biodiversity, field recording, divulgation, sound art. Freelance. Palma. Spain.

Design and evaluation of enhanced techniques for acoustic monitoring on bees

    Speaker:
    María Victoria Cumia Espinosa de los Monteros

    Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain

Transformers outperformed CNNs and improve the acoustic bee species recognition task

    Speaker:
    José Neiva Mesquita Neto

    Pollination Ecology. Laboratorio de Ecología de Abejas Nativas, Facultad de Ciencias Básicas, Universidad Católica del Maule. Talca. Chile

The Insect Soundscape Progression Related to Mammalian Cadavers

    Speaker:
    Elena Gorgeva

    PhD candidate. Faculty of Science and Technology. University of Canberra. ACT. Australia

 

18.00 - 19.00 h.

Symposium. Spatial ecoacoustics: mapping acoustic activity and diversity

Sala de Grados

    Chairperson:
    Camille Desjonquères

    Université Grenobles Alpes. France

Environmental sound as a mirror of landscape ecological integrity in monitoring programs

    Speaker:
    Manon Ducrettet

Bridging the divide: improving wilderness mapping and conservation by linking human

    Speaker:
    Jonathan Carruthers-Jones

    Department of Agriculture and Forestry. University of Helsinki. Finland

Acoustic Species Distribution Models (aSDMs): a framework to forecast shifts in calling behaviour under climate change

    Speaker:
    Camille Desjonquères

    Université Grenobles Alpes. France

General discussion

 

19.00 - 22.00 h.

Welcome reception

Outdoor

Tuesday 9th july

9.00 - 19.30 h.

Sponsors & Exhibitions

 

9.00 - 10.00 h.

Plenary Talk. We listen. But how do we translate? Connecting sound science

Salón de Actos

    Speaker:
    Renata S. Sousa-Lima

    EAR Hub, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil

    Chairperson:
    Simon Linke

    CSIRO Environment

 

10.45 - 13.00 h.

Symposium. Advances in underwater acoustics for management and conservation of aquatic resources

Salón de Actos

    Chairpersons:
    Francis Juanes

    University of Victoria, Canada

    Marta Bolgan

    Ocean Science Consulting Ltd. Spott Rd. Scotland. UK

Advances in mesophotic coral reefs acoustics for management and conservation in Polynesia

    Speaker:
    Xavier Raick

    University of Liege. Belgium

Why should we preserve natural soundscapes? The case of the Adriatic Sea.

    Speaker:
    Marta Picciulin

    National Research Council of Italy

Addressing underwater noise: Joint efforts and progress on its global governance

    Speaker:
    Marta Bolgan

    Ocean Science Consulting Ltd. Spott Rd. Scotland. UK

Passive acoustics for the study of autoecology of emblematic species in marine protected areas

    Speaker:
    Jose Miguel González Correa

    University of Alicante. Spain

Habitat-mediated soundscape conservation in marine ecosystems

    Speaker:
    Kieran Cox

    Marine Acoustics. Simon Fraser University and FishSounds. Vancouver. Canada

The Freshwater Sounds Archive: A global database for the sounds of freshwater life

    Speaker:
    Jack Greenhalgh

    Pyrenean Institute of Ecology. Spain

Arctic soundscapes - rapid changes in a historically pristine environment and its implications for Arctic marine mammals and Inuit communities

    Speaker:
    Annika Heimrich

    University of Victoria. Canada

General discussion

 

10.45 - 13.00 h.

Open Talks. 5: Soundscapes patterns and drivers

Aula 002

    Chairperson:
    Carlos Abrahams

    Baker consultants. UK

Understanding disturbance impacts in terrestrial ecosystems through ecoacoustics

    Speaker:
    Samuel R. P.-J. Ross

    Integrative Community Ecology Unit. Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University. Onna-son. Japan.

Temporal soundscape characteristics of managed forests: Effects of biotic and abiotic factors on diel patterns

    Speaker:
    Dominik Arend

    Biology. Geobotany. Albert-Ludwigs Universität Freiburg. Freiburg. Germany

Sensory polluted soundscapes: empirical and experimental evaluation in eastern Australia

    Speaker:
    Susan Fuller

    Queensland University of Technology. Australia

Acoustic monitoring of rehabilitated sand mines in south-eastern Australia

    Speaker:
    Marina Scarpelli Drummond de Almeida

    CSIRO, Brisbane, Australia

Soundscape and acoustic clime of a university square: monitoring before depaving and greening renovation

    Speaker:
    Andrea Potenza

    PhD student. Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca. Milano. Italy

The Soundscape of the Regional Park of the Ticino Valley: influence of enviromental variables and anthropogenic noise

    Speaker:
    Giorgia Guagliumi

    Research Scholarship Recipient, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy.

Monitoring Farmland Avian Biodiversity Using Acoustic Indices in an Agro-ecological Context in the Mediterranean Region: The Case of Gödence Village, Izmir, Türkiye

    Speaker:
    Irmak Akoglu

    Acoustic Monitoring and Indices. Bogazici Uni Environmental Sciences Institute. Istanbul. Türkiye

Understanding through better listening: quantitative soundscape analyses reveal differences between two types of healthy habitats and the effect of distance in coastal habitats

    Speaker:
    Juan Carlos Azofeifa Solano

    Underwater acoustics. Curtin University, Centre for Marine Science and Technology, Australia

First assessment of the marine soundscape of a shallow submarine volcano in its hydrothermal phase: the Tagoro (El Hierro, Canary Islands)

    Speaker:
    Jesús Alcázar Treviño

    Bioacoustics. Universidad de La Laguna/Centro Oceanográfico de Canarias. La Laguna. Spain

 

10.45 - 13.00 h.

Symposium. Multi-eared listening: pathways to equitable partnerships for a transdisciplinary ecoacoustics

Sala de Grados

    Chairpersons:
    Alice Eldridge

    Ecolistening Group. University of Sussex. UK

    Leah Barclay

    Ecoacoustics and Acoustic Ecology. University of the Sunshine Coast. Queensland. Australia

Ethical, Epistemological and Ecological importance of equitable partnerships in Ecoacoustics

    Speaker:
    Alice Eldridge

    Ecolistening Group. University of Sussex. UK

Participatory ecoacoustic monitoring of social-ecological change with Indigenous and local community partners surrounding Indonesia’s new capital city

    Speaker:
    Wendy Erb

    K Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics, Cornell lab of Ornithology, USA

Narrating the Forest: The Cultural Centrality of Storytelling in Participatory Bioacoustics with Forest Fringe Communities in Ghana

    Speaker:
    Joycelyn Yaa Koko Longdon

    University of Cambridge. UK

Using Ecoacoustics and other monitoring techniques to work with Traditional Owners to bring Biocultural perspectives to environmental water discussions

    Speaker:
    Jo Geddes

    Goulburn Broken CMA. Australia

Territory: Indigenous Peoples and the Conservation of Biodiversity

    Speaker:
    Mónica Chuji Gualinga

    Indigenous Kichwa of the Ecuadorian Amazon/ Latin America Director of Indigenous Peoples Rights International. Ecuador

Listening with Ecosystems: Transdisciplinary Approaches to Ecoacoustics

    Speaker:
    Leah Barclay

    Ecoacoustics and Acoustic Ecology. University of the Sunshine Coast. Queensland. Australia

General discussion

 

13.00 - 14.30 h.

Time for lunch

 

14.30 - 16.00 h.

Plenary Round Table. Acoustic Indices under debate

Salón de Actos

    Speakers:
    Tom Bradfer-Lawrence

    RSPB Centre for Conservation Science & University of Stirling, UK

    Sandra Müller

    University of Freiburg, Germany

    Sylvain Haupert

    National Museum of Natural History (MNHN), France

    Mónica Retamosa Izaguirre

    Universidad Nacional. Heredia. Costa Rica

    Chairperson:
    Diego Gil Pérez

    Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC). Spain

 

16.00 - 16.30 h.

Coffee break

 

16.30 - 18.15 h.

Symposium. Machine listening meets passive acoustic monitoring

Salón de Actos

    Chairpersons:
    Juan Sebastián Ulloa Chacon

    Instituto Humboldt. Colombia

    Vincent Lostanlen

    Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). France

Expert-in-the-loop machine learning for large-scale PAM data

    Speaker:
    Thiago Gouvea

    German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence. Germany

Leveraging AI for effective, large-scale passive acoustic monitoring of bats

    Speaker:
    Ella Browning

    Oxford. UK

Soundata, reproducible use of datasets

    Speaker:
    Marius Miron

    Earth Species Project

Transfer Learning from Bird Embeddings to Belugas: Recognizing the “Canary of the Sea”

    Speaker:
    Lauren Harrell

    Google

Silent Cities: monitoring large scale changes in urban ecoacoustics during the covid lockdown using deep learning and passive acoustic monitoring

    Speaker:
    Nicolas Farrugia

    IMT Atlantique

General discussion

 

16.30 - 18.15 h.

Open Talks. 6: Testing and applying acoustic Indices

Aula 002

    Chairperson:
    Tom Bradfer-Lawrence

    RSPB Centre for Conservation Science & University of Stirling, UK

The Acoustic Complexity Indices (ACIs): Theoretical and applied perspectives

    Speaker:
    Almo Farina

    University of Urbino Carlo Bo (UNIURB). Italy

Understanding drivers of soundscape characteristics in the UK

    Speaker:
    Claire Buchan

    Acoustic Ecology. University of East Anglia. Norwich. UK

Acoustic entropy (H), Amplitude Index (M) and Acoustic Diversity Index (ADI) predict Habitat-Specific Soundscapes in Urban area

    Speaker:
    Joao Marcelo Brazao Protazio

    Mathematical-Statistical Modeling. Universidade Federal do Para. Belem. Brazil

Impact of FFT Parameters on Acoustic Index Results

    Speaker:
    James Kemp

    University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia

Moving forward standardization for coral reef monitoring by ecoacoustics across ocean basins

    Speaker:
    Elise Delcour

    Coral reef. Ecoacoustics. REEF PULSE S.A.S / UMR 9220 ENTROPIE. Saint Denis. La Réunion, France

Major Soundscape Differences in the West Coast of Scotland are Reflected in Acoustic Indices

    Speaker:
    Benedict Lancelot Dell

    PhD Student in Underwater Acoustics. University of Southampton. Southampton. United Kingdom

 

16.30 - 18.15 h.

Open Talks. 7: Sensors

Sala de Grados

    Chairperson:
    Sarab S. Sethi

    Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, UK

Acoustic monitoring technology 3.0: towards a roadmap for open-source acoustic monitoring hardware based on the needs and priorities of the ecoacoustics community

    Speaker:
    José Lahoz-Monfort

    Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología (CSIC). Spain

Real-time bioacoustic monitoring using Edge-AI

    Speaker:
    Bernd Meyer

    Monash University, Dept. of Data Science and AI

Capturing ecoacoustic data in real-time using embedded audio processing and LoRaWAN

    Speaker:
    David Kadish

    School of Arts and Culture, Malmö University, Malmö, Sweden

BIRDday: A field autonomous recorder for BIRDeep project

    Speaker:
    Marcos Novalbos Mendiguchia

    Computer Science, U-tad University of Technology, Arts and Design, Madrid, Spain

Implementation of smart, low-power, low-cost bird acoustic monitoring

    Speaker:
    Delia Velasco Montero

    Instituto de Microelectrónica de Sevilla (CSIC – Universidad de Sevilla). Seville. Spain

Scalable eco-acoustic monitoring using fully autonomous drones

    Speaker:
    Milica Ostojic

    Life Sciences, Imperial College London, UK

 

18.30 - 19.30 h.

Ecoacoustic concert

Salón de Actos

    Invited Artist:
    David Monacchi

    Italy

Wednesday 10th july

9.00 - 19.30 h.

Sponsors & Exhibitions

 

9.00 - 10.00 h.

Plenary Talk. Sensors and AI for autonomous eco-acoustic monitoring

Salón de Actos

    Speaker:
    Sarab S. Sethi

    Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, UK

    Chairperson:
    Paola Laiolo

    Instituto Mixto de Investigación en Biodiversidad (UO-CSIC), Spain

 

10.45 - 13.00 h.

Open Talks. 8: Behavioural ecology

Salón de Actos

    Chairperson:
    Manuel B. Morales Prieto

    Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain

Disclosing the architecture and the community level consequences of acoustic interaction networks

    Speaker:
    Federica Rossetto

    Biodiversity Research Institute (CSIC, Oviedo University, Principality of Asturias), Mieres, Spain

Ecoacoustic Monitoring of the endangered Pink Cockatoo (Lophochroa leadbeateri leadbeateri) in Semi-Arid Eastern Australia: Insights into Spatial and Temporal Patterns

    Speaker:
    Susan Fuller

    Queensland University of Technology. Australia

Uncoupled evolutionary patterns in spectral and temporal components of acoustic signals in anurans associated with streams

    Speaker:
    Fernando Vargas-Salinas

    Behavioural ecology of Anurans. Biology Program, University of Quindío. Armenia. Colombia

To respond or not to respond? Acoustic interference between closely related frog species

    Speaker:
    María Torres Sánchez

    Postdoctoral fellow. University Complutense of Madrid. Madrid. Spain

Hurry up and sing: early onset of diel calling behaviour and ecological drivers of calling behaviour of Acanthoplus discoidalis

    Speaker:
    Aileen Van Der Mescht

    Ecoacoustics. University of the Free State. Bloemfontein. South Africa

Listening to the Amazonian freshwater giant: using air-breathing sounds to understand pirarucu (Arapaima gigas) dynamics in remote floodplain lakes

    Speaker:
    Marisol Valverde Montellano

    PhD student at Cornell University

Unravelling marine symphonies: fish sound types for effective biodiversity monitoring and management

    Speaker:
    Marta Bolgan

    Ocean Science Consulting Ltd. Spott Rd. Scotland. UK

Is there geographic variation in the whistles of the pantropical spotted dolphin in the Western South Atlantic Ocean?

    Speaker:
    Luane Maria Stamatto Ferreira

    Laboratory of Bioacoustics & EAR Hub, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brazil

The whistle repertoire of bottlenose dolphins and its use to estimate abundance

    Speaker:
    Carmen Bazúa Durán

    Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM, CU, Mexico

 

10.45 - 13.00 h.

Open Talks. 9: Community ecology and monitoring programs

Aula 002

    Chairperson:
    Samuel Ross

    Okinawa Institute od Science and Technology Graduate University, Japan

On-board tags reveal wild bat foraging behaviour and prey interaction

    Speaker:
    Elena Tena López

    TRAGSATEC, Spain

Mobile monitoring of bats in agricultural landscapes

    Speaker:
    Paula Machin

    Wildlife Services

Unveiling hidden diversity: Community composition of bats in agricultural ecosystems in Spain

    Speaker:
    Zeltia López Gallego

    Bat Ecologist. Biodiversity Node S.L., SPAIN

Bat Sonotype As a Novel Insight into the Congo Basin Rainforest Dynamic

    Speaker:
    Yoba Alenga

    Biodiversity and Sustainable forest management. Congolese Youth Biodiversity Network. Bukavu. Democratic Republic of the Congo

Listening to the mountains: towards the application of large-scale passive acoustic monitoring in alpine environments

    Speaker:
    José Lahoz-Monfort

    Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología (CSIC). Spain

Birdsong automatic monitoring using Deep Learning for tracking Doñana’s health status

    Speaker:
    Irene Mendoza Sagrera

    Estación Biológica de Doñana (CSIC)Ecology. Estación Biológica de Doñana (CSIC). Sevilla. Spain

A glimpse at island bird diversity and ecological dynamics using the Okinawa Environmental Observation Network

    Speaker:
    Nicholas Friedman

    Curator Ornithology, Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change, Germany

Advancing conservation of endemic forest bird species on Christmas Island using acoustic monitoring.

    Speaker:
    Sheryn Brodie

    Zoology and Ecology, College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University

FishSounds: A Global Inventory of Sound-Producing Fishes

    Speaker:
    Kieran Cox

    Marine Acoustics. Simon Fraser University and FishSounds. Vancouver. Canada

 

10.45 - 13.00 h.

Symposium. Density estimation using passive acoustic monitoring: lessons from multiple taxa

Sala de Grados

    Chairpersons:
    Cristián Pérez Granados

    Universidad de Alicante. Spain

    Tiago Marques

    University of St Andrews. United Kingdom

The fundamental aspects to consider when estimating density from passive acoustic monitoring data: lessons from cetaceans

    Speaker:
    Tiago Marques

    University of St Andrews. United Kingdom

Acoustic monitoring based density estimation of cetaceans and bats

    Speaker:
    Jens Koblitz

    MPI of Animal Behavior. Constance. Germany

Vocal activity rate: a simple method for bird density estimation

    Speaker:
    Cristián Pérez Granados

    Universidad de Alicante. Spain

Estimating population sizes of single-species dense aggregations: using an energy-based acoustic index

    Speaker:
    Laura N. Kloepper

    University of New Hampshire. USA

Acoustic monitoring yields informative bat population density estimates

    Speaker:
    Joy O'Keefe

    University of Illinois Urbana Champaign. USA

Assessing Indri indri Population Density and Distribution through Passive Acoustic Monitoring

    Speaker:
    Valeria Ferrario

    University of Turin, Italy

"SonicSpotter" - sound source localisation in a complex calling community of poison frogs

    Speaker:
    Max Ringler

    University of Bern, Switzerland

General discussion

 

13.00 - 14.30 h.

Time for lunch

 

14.30 - 16.00 h.

Open Talks. 10: New soundscape metrics

Salón de Actos

    Chairperson:
    Kevin Darras

    EFNO research group (Ecosystèmes Forestiers Nogent). INRAE. France

Towards reliable ecoacoustic indices to assess the acoustic biodiversity using passive acoustic monitoring

    Speaker:
    Sylvain Haupert

    National Museum of Natural History (MNHN), France

Contrastive Ecoacoustic Indices: large-scale global soundscape characterization with contrastive inference

    Speaker:
    Yann Teytaut

    Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (MNHN). Paris. France

Implementation of an unsupervised deep learning workflow for soundscape exploration

    Speaker:
    Rouch Jérémy

    Acoustics/Signal processing, ENES Bioacoustic Lab/University of Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne, France

Graphical Representation of Ecological Heterogeneity in Colombian Oil Palm Plantations Based on Unsupervised Acoustic Analysis

    Speaker:
    Maria Jose Guerrero Muriel

    PhD student, SISTEMIC-Universidad de Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia

Understanding the predictive power of acoustic ecological indicators with reverse correlation

    Speaker:
    Etienne Thoret

    CNRS, Aix-Marseille University, Institut de Neurosciences de la Timone, UMR7289

Sonic Method: a qualitative practice for the analysis of wild soundscapes

    Speaker:
    Thomas Hull

    Soundscape ecology, Falmouth University, Penyrn, United Kingdom

 

14.30 - 16.00 h.

Open Talks. 11: Annotation and platforms

Aula 002

    Chairperson:
    Oliver Metcalf

    Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University. UK

Developing and running a sustainably funded bioacoustic data management platform: the BTO Acoustic Pipeline

    Speaker:
    Simon Gillings

    British Trust for Ornithology (BTO), UK

Automatic Label Evaluator: a user-friendly tool for evaluating sound-classification algorithms applied to nature conservation

    Speaker:
    Miguel Ángel Muñoz Mohedano

    Computer Sciences. Estación Biológica de Doñana (CSIC). Sevilla. Spain

Detecting animal sounds faster in long recordings using Few-Shot Learning: a case study on fish sounds

    Speaker:
    Valentin Bordoux

    Marine Animal Ecology. Wageningen University. Wageningen. The Netherlands

Training Participants to Train Machines: Amplifying Participation in a Bat Acoustic Monitoring Program

    Speaker:
    Yves Bas

    Vigie-Nature

Knowledge co-production drives symbiotic solutions to conservation, ecology and AI: Insights from an ecoacoustics programme in Indonesia

    Speaker:
    Frederica Poznansky

    Ecoacoustics and Conservation. University of Exeter. Exeter. United Kingdom

Neural Network-Based Discrimination of Orca Vocalizations: Towards Real-Time Monitoring and Analysis

    Speaker:
    Jonas Philipp Lüke

    Departamento de Ingeniería Industrial. Universidad de La Laguna. La Laguna. Spain

 

14.30 - 16.00 h.

Symposium. Acoustic monitoring of biodiversity in transformed landscapes

Sala de Grados

    Chairpersons:
    Charles Arthur Tebbutt

    Department of Natural Resource & Environment, Cornell University, U.S.A.

    Camilo Loaiza Gómez

    Wildlife Conservation Society. Bogotá. Colombia

Passive acoustic monitoring of indicator bird species supporting the “Conservation Cocoa” new brand in the northwestern Colombian Amazonia

    Speaker:
    Camilo Loaiza Gómez

    Wildlife Conservation Society. Bogotá. Colombia

Automated Avian Species Detections to Evaluate Ecosystem Services in Artisanal Rubber Agroforestry

    Speaker:
    Charles Arthur Tebbutt

    Department of Natural Resource & Environment, Cornell University, U.S.A.

Acoustic indices as a proxy for biodiversity? Case studies from Madagascar and Indonesia

    Speaker:
    Saskia Dröge

    Division of Forest. Nature and Landscape. KU Leuven. Belgium. Department of Biology, University of Hildesheim, Universitaetsplatz. Biodiversity, Macroecology and Biogeography, University of Goettingen. Germany

Acoustic indices may be less accurate when applied in biodiverse areas in lower latitudes

    Speaker:
    Wuyuan Pan

    Guangxi Key Laboratory of Forest Ecology and Conservation, College of Forestry, Guangxi University, Nanning, Guangxi 530005, China

Acoustic Sensing For Biodiversity And Habitat Assessment: A Case From Costa Rica

    Speaker:
    Mónica Retamosa Izaguirre

    Universidad Nacional. Heredia. Costa Rica

General discussion

 

16.00 - 16.30 h.

Coffee break

 

16.30 - 18.00 h.

Plenary Round Table. Past, present and future of ecoacoustic research

Salón de Actos

    Speakers:
    Almo Farina

    University of Urbino Carlo Bo (UNIURB). Italy

    Susan Fuller

    Queensland University of Technology. Australia

    Jérôme Sueur

    National Museum of Natural History (MNHN). France

    Chairpersons:
    Camille Desjonquères

    Université Grenobles Alpes. France

    José Lahoz-Monfort

    Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología (CSIC). Spain

 

18.00 - 19.30 h.

ISE General Assembly

Salón de Actos

 

18.00 - 19.00 h.

Sponsored workshop. Wildlife Acoustics, Introduction to Acoustic Indices for Biodiversity Monitoring

Sala de Grados

An Introduction to Acoustic Indices in Kaleidoscope Pro.

    Speaker:
    Fran Tattersall

    Wildlife Acoustics, Inc

Thursday 11th july

9.00 - 19.30 h.

Sponsors & Exhibitions

 

9.00 - 10.00 h.

Plenary Talk. Putting ecoacoustics into community ecology

Salón de Actos

    Speaker:
    Larissa Sayuri M. Sugai

    K Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics, Cornell lab of Ornithology, USA

    Chairperson:
    Rafael Ignacio Marquez

    Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC). Spain

 

10.45 - 13.00 h.

Symposium. Building a transnational network of terrestrial ecoacoustic monitoring initiatives to share knowledge, establish standards and promote data exchange. Part 1: ongoing programmes

Salón de Actos

    Chairpersons:
    Sandra Müller

    University of Freiburg, Germany

    Jonathan Carruthers-Jones

    Department of Agriculture and Forestry. University of Helsinki. Finland

An overview of worldwide ecoacoustic patterns and research

    Speaker:
    Kevin Darras

    EFNO research group (Ecosystèmes Forestiers Nogent). INRAE. France

The Australian Acoustic Observatory

    Speaker:
    Linda Schwarzkopf

A neotropical collaborative acoustic monitoring network to assess climate change impacts on anurans

    Speaker:
    Diego Llusia

    Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Spain

Introduction to sonosylva, a country-scale project for the acoustic monitoring of protected forests

    Speaker:
    Jérôme Sueur

    National Museum of Natural History (MNHN). France

A multi-regional ecoacoustic network to study how organic farming and permanent grassland cover contribute to shape acoustic biodiversity in French farmland soundscapes

    Speaker:
    Luc Barbaro

    INRAE Toulouse. France

Structure and function of acoustic communities in the ORCHAMP observatory

    Speaker:
    Camille Desjonquères

    Université Grenobles Alpes. France

Integrating acoustic monitoring into German national forest monitoring (pilot on selected Levell II plots)

    Speaker:
    Sandra Müller

    University of Freiburg, Germany

Designing and maintaining long-term biodiversity monitoring programs

    Speaker:
    Carlos Abrahams

    Baker consultants. UK

Nordic Sound Research Network (NSRN)

    Speaker:
    Rose Keller

    Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA). Norway

General discussion

 

10.45 - 13.00 h.

Open Talks. 12. Human impacts and conservation

Aula 002

    Chairperson:
    Elena Tena López

    TRAGSATEC, Spain

Making a User-Friendly Monitoring Tool for the Invasive Cane Toad

    Speaker:
    Ka Wah Leung

    James Cook University, Townsville, Australia

Not only birds: BirdNET as a useful tool for automated anuran monitoring

    Speaker:
    Cristián Pérez Granados

    Universidad de Alicante. Spain

Ecoacoustics for effective invasive species management

    Speaker:
    Marina Scarpelli Drummond de Almeida

    CSIRO, Brisbane, Australia

Acoustic detection of invasive species and the values they threaten

    Speaker:
    Simon Linke

    CSIRO Environment

New insights on the ecology and conservation of understorey Amazonian bird species through ecoacoustics

    Speaker:
    Léa Mariton

    Conservation Biology. CESCO – MNHN. Paris. France

Analysis of the Corn bunting song in the presence of air traffic noise

    Speaker:
    Laura Michelle Godoy Merdano

    Ornithology. Complutense University of Madrid. Madrid. Spain

From sky to underwater: Can passive acoustic monitoring substitute to aerial tracking to quantify human use of inland waters?

    Speaker:
    Vincent Médoc

    Associate Professor in Ecology and Behaviour. CRNL / ENES Bioacoustics Research Lab. Université Jean Monnet - St-Etienne. Saint-Etienne. France

Mapping of noise pollution in the lagoon of Bora Bora: A holistic approach towards ecoacoustic conservation

    Speaker:
    Lana Minier

    PhD student at CRIOBE UAR 3278. Moorea. French Polynesia

Passive acoustic monitoring in Lake Bourget: How noisy is the largest natural French lake

    Speaker:
    Théophile Turco

    Saint-Etienne

 

10.45 - 13.00 h.

Symposium. Underwater soundscape and noise: modelling, measurements and effects

Sala de Grados

    Chairpersons:
    Valentina Zaffaroni Caorsi

    Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences. University of Milano-Bicocca. Milan. Italy

    Manuela Mauro

    Department of Biological, Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technologies (STEBICEF). University of Palermo. Palermo. Italy

Characterization of underwater noise in the North Adriatic sea and in Barcelona shore

    Speaker:
    Giovanni Zambon

    Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences. University of Milano-Bicocca. Milan. Italy

Acoustic Study of Underwater areas in the Mediterranean Sea

    Speaker:
    Eduardo Ruiz Perez

    Underwater, acoustic and non-acoustic signal processing. S.A. de Electrónica Submarina S.M.E. Spain

Modeling of continuous noise sources: characterization and propagation

    Speaker:
    Marta Cianferra

Modeling of seismic sources: characterization and propagation

    Speaker:
    Umberta Tinivella

On the importance of PM and its experimental determination

    Speaker:
    Jaime Ramis Soriano

    University of Alicante. Spain

Effects of underwater noise on marine Deuterostomes

    Speaker:
    Jesús Carbajo

Acoustic emissions and biological responses of aquatic organisms

    Speaker:
    Manuela Mauro

    Department of Biological, Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technologies (STEBICEF). University of Palermo. Palermo. Italy

General discussion

 

13.00 - 14.30 h.

Time for lunch

Aula 001

 

14.30 - 16.30 h.

Symposium. Building a transnational network of terrestrial ecoacoustic monitoring initiatives to share knowledge, establish standards and promote data exchange. Part 2: methods

Salón de Actos

    Chairpersons:
    Jonathan Carruthers-Jones

    Department of Agriculture and Forestry. University of Helsinki. Finland

    Sandra Müller

    University of Freiburg, Germany

Finnish Soundscapes

    Speaker:
    Jonathan Carruthers-Jones

    Department of Agriculture and Forestry. University of Helsinki. Finland

Passive acoustic monitoring in nature-based solutions project in the tropical region

    Speaker:
    Leandro A. Do Nascimento

    Biometrio Earth. Saarbrücken. Germany

Data infrastructures for biological acoustics

    Speaker:
    Edward Baker

    Centre for UK Nature. Natural History Museum. Convenor of TDWG AudiovisualCore Maintenance Group. London. UK

Ecoacoustic dashboard for long term ecological monitoring

    Speaker:
    Alice Eldridge

    Ecolistening Group. University of Sussex. UK

General discussion and follow-up activity

 

14.30 - 16.30 h.

Open Talks. 13. Sampling, spatial estimates and decision-making

Aula 002

    Chairperson:
    Larissa Sayuri M. Sugai

    K Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics, Cornell lab of Ornithology, USA

Proposal for a physical and statistical model of space-time detectability

    Speaker:
    Ducrettet Manon

    Ecoacoustic. Equipe de Neuro-Ethologie Sensorielle, CRNL UMR CNRS 5292. Saint - Etienne. France

Integrating Compartmentalization Techniques and Landscape Proxies in Spatial Sampling Design for Soundscape Studies

    Speaker:
    Víctor Manuel Martínez-Arias

    Doctoral student. Grupo Herpetológico de Antioquia GHA, Universidad de Antioquia. Medellín. Colombia

Listening in: The Value of Passive Acoustic Monitoring for Mammalian Biodiversity Assessment in Australia

    Speaker:
    Sebastian Hoefer

    James Cook University

Multichannel Acoustic Autonomous Recording Unit (MAARU) for Spatial Ecosystem Monitoring

    Speaker:
    Becky Heath

    Spatial Ecoacoutsics. Department of Zoology, Univeristy of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Multi-taxa acoustic monitoring allows for protected area prioritisation for cryptic and nocturnal species in a data-poor region

    Speaker:
    Adham Ashton-Butt

    BTO

Bats, birds, bugs and BNG: developing ecoacoustic guidance for conservation and consultancy

    Speaker:
    Carlos Abrahams

    Baker consultants. UK

Ecoacoustic Research and its representation through intermedia sound art: sonic health of protected ecosystems and anthropogenic impacts on their ecological communities

    Speaker:
    Sam Erpelding

    Austria

 

14.30 - 16.30 h.

Open Talks. 14. Automated sound classification

Sala de Grados

    Chairperson:
    Sylvain Haupert

    National Museum of Natural History (MNHN), France

Automatic animal sound identification: a comparative study

    Speaker:
    Maria Jose Guerrero Muriel

    PhD student, SISTEMIC-Universidad de Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia

The Effects of Noise Reduction on Bioacoustic Segmentation and Classification

    Speaker:
    Ben McEwen

    Computational Bioacoustics. Computer Science and Software Engineering Department, University of Canterbury. Christchurch. New Zealand

Decoding the Sounds of Doñana: Advancements in Bird Detection and Identification Through Deep Learning

    Speaker:
    Alba Márquez-Rodríguez

    Computer Science. Estación Biológica de Doñana. Sevilla. España

All Thresholds Barred: Direct Estimation of Call Density in Bioacoustic Data

    Speaker:
    Amanda Navine

    Bioacoustic Research. University of Hawaii at Hilo. Hilo. Hawaii. United States

Wind detection in soundscape recordings using the YAMNet pre-trained Convolutional Neural Network

    Speaker:
    Francesca Terranova

    PhD Student. Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology, University of Turin, Turin, Italy

Unsupervised Multi-Species Call Identification through Soundscape Decomposition

    Speaker:
    Maria Jose Guerrero Muriel

    PhD student, SISTEMIC-Universidad de Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia

 

16.30 - 17.00 h.

Coffee break

 

17.00 - 18.30 h.

Plenary Round Table. Integrating PAM on management and monitoring programs

Salón de Actos

    Speakers:
    Simon Gillings

    British Trust for Ornithology (BTO), UK

    Lluís Brotons

    Ecological and Forestry Applications Research Centre (CREAF) and EuropaBon, Spain

    Francisco Guil Celada

    Red Natura 2000, Ministerio para la Transición Ecológica y el Reto Demográfico, Spain

    Adria López Baucells

    Natural Sciences Museum of Granollers and Eurobats, Spain

    Chairperson:
    Gerard Bota Cabau

    Forest Science and Technology Centre of Catalonia (CTFC). Spain

 

18.30 - 19.00 h.

Awards and Closing ceremony

Salón de Actos