Upcoming Meetings
The next ASA meeting is the 189 Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the Sixth Joint Meeting with the Acoustical Society of Japan in Honolulu, Hawaii 1-5 December 2025.
The Animal Bioacoustics Technical Committee Open Meeting will be held at a date TBD during that week. It will be streamed on Zoom for those not in attendance in Honolulu (registration at the Honolulu meeting is not required to attend TC Open Meetings!).
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).
Honolulu – December 2025
- Session in honor of Paul Nachtigall—Tomonari Akamatsu, Laura Kloepper, Aran Mooney, Aude Pacini, Marc Lammers,
Brian Branstetter - Deep sea soundscape, current understanding and monitoring methods—Satoko Kimura, Lauren Freeman
- Pinniped acoustics—Daisuke Mizuguchi, Heloise Frouin-Mouy, Colleen Reichmuth
- Baleen whale acoustics—Nozomi Kobayashi, Marc Lammers, Susan Parks and Adam Pack
- Active sensing by echolocation in bats—Shizuko Hiryu, Cynthia Moss
- Sound Categorization and Acoustic Repertoire Description in Animal Communication Research – Julie Oswald, Laura May-Collado, Vincent Janik, Tadamichi Morisaka
Philadelphia – Spring 2026
- Effects of hearing loss and abnormal acoustic experience on cognitive and affective behavior in animals and humans (joint AB/PP) – Amanda Lauer, Michael Dent, Lina Reiss, Greg Ellis
List of past and future 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.