Upcoming Meetings

The next ASA meeting is the 190th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 11-13 May 2026.

The Animal Bioacoustics Technical Committee Open Meeting will be held on Wednesday May 13 at 7:30 PM EDT (after the social). It will be held in person and also streamed on Zoom for those not in attendance in Philadelphia (registration at the Philadelphia meeting is not required to attend TC Open Meetings!).

TCAB Meeting Information:

Wednesday May 13, 2026 @ 7:30 PM EDT (UTC-4)

Zoom Link: https://whoi-edu.zoom.us/j/95390840185?pwd=wkQ0kLn4XZD1nC2Ysh8Z6SQrvph1bv.1
Meeting ID: 953 9084 0185
Passcode: &zCMT8

 

Past and Future TCAB Special Sessions

Special sessions are typically organized one year in advance. If you’d like to suggest and/or organize a special session, please complete the Special Session Form and email this to Xavier Mouy (xavier.mouy@whoi.edu).

Philadelphia – Spring 2026
  • Effects of hearing loss and abnormal acoustic experience on cognitive and affective behavior in animals and humans (joint AB/PP)
  • Learning and coordination of vocal signaling
  • Machine learning approaches for analyzing large acoustic datasets (joint AB/CA/AO)
  • Signal processing and modeling for distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) (joint SP/AO/AB)
  • Acoustic observations from uncrewed platforms (joint AO/UW/AB/SP)
  • New results and future directions for ocean sensing using seismic reflection platforms (joint AO/UW/AB/SP/PA)
  • Sensing vector acoustic fields (joint PA/AO/SP/AB)
Baltimore – Fall 2026
  • From detections to ecological insights: Quantitative methods in bioacoustics
  • Research gaps in Animal Bioacoustics: Directions for the decade ahead
Brussels, Belgium – Spring 2027 (Tentative)
  • Open source software and data in acoustics
  • Soil acoustics

List of past and future special sessions (2025-present)

List of past special sessions (2015-2020)

Note: While each ASA meeting typically features multiple special sessions addressing a specific topic of Animal Bioacoustics (AB), there are also always general AB sessions for contributions outside of special sessions.

TCAB Meeting Minutes