Upcoming Meetings

The next ASA meeting is the 188th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America joint with 25th International Congress on Acoustics in New Orleans, Louisiana 18-23 May 2025.

The Animal Bioacoustics Technical Committee Open Meeting will be held Tuesday 20 May 2025 at 6:00 pm Central Time (UTC-5). It will be streamed on Zoom for those not in attendance in New Orleans (registration at the New Orleans meeting is not required to attend TC Open Meetings!). If you’ll be attending the TC Open Meeting, we invite you to fill out this short survey ahead of the meeting: survey link.

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).

  • New Orleans – May 2025
    •  Arthropod biotremology and bioacoustics—organizers: Sebastian Oberst and Joseph C.S. Lai
    • Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) in Ocean Acoustics—organizers: Shima Abadi and Lea Bouffant
    • Progress on bioacoustics of fishes—organizers: Kelly Boyle and John Allen III
  • Honolulu – December 2025 (To be finalized)
    • 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
    • Soundscape Community Standards—Yu Teshima, Samara Haver
  • 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.