The 2nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Bioacoustics
12--13 December 2015, Fukuoka, Japan
Meeting Announcement and Call for Abstracts
You are cordially invited to the 2nd Annual Meeting of the Society for
Bioacoustics, which will be held in Ohashi Campus, Kyushu University
(4-9-1 Shiobaru, Minami-ku, Fukuoka 815-8540, Japan) from Saturday
through Sunday, 12--13 December 2015.
Most of the contributed papers will be presented as posters. Oral
presentations are given by invited senior researchers and a couple of
selected junior researchers. Presentation awards are granted to
excellent presentations given by students or researchers who got their
degrees within three years. The banquet will be held on Saturday, 12
December 2015 at a Japanese restaurant near the conference venue
(pre-registration is necessary for reserving your seat).
Please refer to the PDF pamphlet which could be downloaded from the
Webpage of the Society
http://bacoust.org/?page_id=227&lang=en
for more detailed information about the Meeting, including
transportations, travel directions, accommodations, and the size of a
poster board. You could also download the abstract template from that page.
We are looking forward to seeing you in Fukuoka!!
1. Key dates.
[15 September 2015] Pre-registration deadline for corresponding
authors and abstract deadline for oral presentations. All the
authors who would like to present a paper at the Meeting, either
as a poster or a lecture, have to submit a title, author(s), and
affiliation(s) by this date. Submitting an abstract at this
point is mandatory for the author(s) who would like to apply for
the oral presentation slots.
[30 September 2015] Notification of acceptance of contributed
oral papers by e-mail.
[15 October 2015] Abstract deadline for poster presentations.
Pre-registration for all participants will be closed and the
program will be announced.
[27 November 2015] The attendees who are living in Japan should
transfer their total amount of expenses before the date. If you
come from abroad, you could pay the registration fee and the
banquet expense on site in Japanese yen (cash only).
2. Joining the Society.
You have to be a member of the Society for Bioacoustics, in order to
present a paper at the Annual Meeting. If you have not yet joined the
Society, please contact the Secretariat through the Web page of the
Society <http://bacoust.org/?page_id= 13&lang=en> at your earliest
convenience (by the end of August 2015 at the latest).
3. Abstract submission.
Submission of an one-page abstract is required for all corresponding
authors. A Microsoft Word template for an abstract is provided at the
Webpage of the Society.
4. Contacting address.
Please send an e-mail message to the Secretariat of the Organizing
Committee of the 2nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Bioacoustics
<bainfo [at] bacoust.org>.
5. The Organizing Committee and Programing Committee.
The Organizing Committee consists of Kazuo UEDA (Chair), Wen-Jie SONG
(Accountant), Chihiro HIRAMATSU, and Yumiko WATANABE (Secretariat). The
Programing Committee consists of Ikuo MATSUO (Chair), Hiroshi
RIQUIMAROUX, and Takuma TAKANASHI.
Cosponsored by the Society for Bioacoustics, the Organizing Committee of
the 2nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Bioacoustics, Faculty
ofDesign, Kyushu University, Research Center for Applied Perceptual
Science, Kyushu University, Physiological Anthropology Research Center,
Kyushu University, the Kyushu Chapter of the Acoustical Society of
Japan, and the Research Committee of Bioacoustics, the Acoustical
Society of Japan.
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Dr. Takuma Takanashi
Department of Forest Entomology
Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute
Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8687, Japan
E-mail: takanasi [at] affrc.go.jp
