{"id":818,"date":"2016-06-20T17:13:10","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T17:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/gemmlab\/?p=818"},"modified":"2016-06-20T17:18:50","modified_gmt":"2016-06-20T17:18:50","slug":"seabass-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/gemmlab\/2016\/06\/20\/seabass-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"SeaBASS 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Samara Haver<\/a>, MSc student, OSU Fisheries and Wildlife, ORCAA Lab<\/p>\n

As a graduate student in bioacoustics (the study of noise produced by biological sources), my education is interdisciplinary. Bioacoustics is a relatively small field, and (together with my peers) I am challenged to find my way through\u00a0coursework in ecology, physiology, physics, oceanography, statistics, and engineering to learn the background information that I need to develop and answer research questions (since this is my first post for the GEMM lab, here<\/a> is a little more information about my interests). While this challenge (for all young\u00a0bioacousticians) presents itself a little differently at all universities, the information gap is essentially the same. Hence, just over 6 years ago, Dr. Jennifer Missis-Old and Dr. Susan Parks recognized a need to fill this gap for graduate students in bioacoustics and\u00a0created SeaBASS<\/a>, a BioAcoustics Summer School.<\/p>\n

This year, for the 4th iteration of the week-long program, I was lucky to have the opportunity to attend SeaBASS. I first heard about\u00a0SeaBASS as a research assistant in Dr. Sofie Van Parijs\u2019s passive acoustics group at the Northeast Fisheries Science Center, but the workshop is limited to graduate students only so I had to wait until I was officially enrolled in grad school to apply. My ORCAA lab-mates, Niki, Selene, and Michelle are all alumni of SeaBASS (read Miche\u2019s re-cap from 2014\u00a0here<\/a> ) so by the time I was preparing for my trip to upstate NY this summer to attend, I had a pretty good idea of what was to come.<\/p>\n

As expected, the week was packed. I flew to the East Coast a few days early to visit our fearless ORCAA leader, Holger, at the\u00a0Bioacoustics Research Program at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology<\/a>, so I was lucky to be somewhat adjusted to EST by the time I arrived at Syracuse on Sunday afternoon. After exploring the campus, it was time for official\u00a0SeaBASS programming to begin. Our first class, an “Introduction to Acoustics and Proportion”, began early on Monday morning. In the afternoon and through the rest of the week we also learned about active acoustics (creating a sound in the water and using the echo to detect animals or other things) and marine mammal physiology, echolocation, communication, and behavior. We also heard about passive acoustics (listening to existing underwater sounds), including the different types of technology being used and its application for population density estimation. On Friday afternoon, the final lecture covered the effects of noise on marine mammals.<\/p>\n

\"Samara1\"<\/a>\u00a0Some SeaBASS-ers testing the hypothesis that humans are capable of echolocation.<\/p>\n

In addition to the class lectures given by each instructor, we also heard individual opinions about \u201chot topics\u201d in bioacoustics. This session was my favorite part of the week because we (the students) had the opportunity to hear from a number of accomplished scientists about what they believe are the most pressing issues in the field. Unlike a conference or seminar, these short talks introduced (or reinforced) ideas from researchers in an informal setting, and among our small group it was easy to hear impressions from other SeaBASS-ers afterwards. As a student I spend a lot of my time working alone; my ORCAA labmates are focused on related acoustic projects, but we do not overlap completely. The best part of SeaBASS was sharing ideas, experiences, and general camaraderie with other students that are tackling questions very similar to my own.<\/p>\n

\"Samara2\"<\/a>\u00a0SeaBASS 2016<\/p>\n

Although a full week of class would be plenty to take in by itself, our evenings were also filled with activities. We (students) shared posters (this was mine<\/a> ) about our individual research projects, listened to advice about life as a researcher in the field, attended a Syracuse Chiefs baseball game, and at the end of each day reflected on our new knowledge and experiences over pints. So, needless to say, I returned home to Oregon completely exhausted, but also with refreshed excitement about my place in the small world of bioacoustics research.<\/p>\n

\"Samara3\"<\/a>\u00a0Luckily we had beautiful weather for the baseball game!<\/p>\n

\"Samara4\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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