{"id":636,"date":"2014-10-03T19:11:16","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T19:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/bioacoustics\/?p=636"},"modified":"2014-10-06T20:23:55","modified_gmt":"2014-10-06T20:23:55","slug":"france-sounds-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/bioacoustics\/2014\/10\/03\/france-sounds-like\/","title":{"rendered":"This is what France sounds like"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week I\u00a0attended\u00a0the 5th Biologging Science Symposium<\/a> in Strasbourg, France (Yes, France!!\u00a0All thanks to student travel awards from the OSU Mastin Travel Award, the Hatfield Student Organization, and the conference itself).<\/p>\n

\n \"Pretend<\/a>\n
Of course being in France, all posters were hung on huge barrels of wine! (Sadly, not actually…)<\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n

OSU had quite the showing. Almost all the PI’s from the Marine Mammal Institute were there, plus Dr.\u00a0Rob Suryan\u00a0from Hatfield’s Seabird Oceanography Lab, and Shea Steingass and I as student presenters. I presented a poster on my master’s research<\/a>, and the poster sessions (all 4 of them!) were super productive. I was able to meet people from the Marine Mammal Commission who were interested in my work and suggested some research grants I could apply for to conduct future field work. I got feedback from my collaborator David (the\u00a0raccoons in chimney guy<\/a>) on my analysis and got to hang out at his exhibitor booth like a cool kid. And I got to talk with leading dive physiology researchers\u00a0from Scripps Institute of Oceanograpy\u00a0about\u00a0how to use my tag to study specific\u00a0physiological responses to extended deep dives. I think my favorite part was\u00a0meeting Dr. Gerald “Jerry” Kooyman, the inventor of time-depth recorders, and hearing him say\u00a0he thought my research was awesome.<\/p>\n

Biologging is all about putting tags on animals and studying their behavior, whether it’s large-scale migrations, fine scale flight, foraging kinematics, or vocal production and communication. There were countless interesting research presentations and I was able to make some great new connections, but all week something felt like it was missing. Acoustics!! This was my first major conference that was not all<\/em> acoustics, all<\/em> the time, and I have to say there were moments sitting in a talk I found myself wishing for more dB’s.\u00a0Don’t get me wrong, I am so thankful I was able to attend and I learned a ton. But to satisfy the acoustician in me, I recorded all over Strasbourg and now I’ll share with you the sounds of France! Or, at least a small subset recorded by your’s truly.<\/p>\n

Free beer to anyone who makes the sounds into\u00a0spectrograms and leaves them in the comments!<\/p>\n

Siren and street sounds from outside my apartment window:<\/p>\n