Awards

The IBAC 2019 Committee are pleased to announce a range of awards including:


 

Outstanding Oral Presentation

by Student and Early Career Researcher

 

PeerJ are proud to award the prize for:

 

Outstanding Oral Presentation by Student or Early Career Researcher

to

 

Winner: Wesley Webb and co-authors
"Rapid and independent cultural evolution of male and female NZ bellbird song
across an island archipelago"

 

To have been eligible, you must currently be a student or have obtained your PhD within the past 5 years (defence date). The deadline for being considered for this award was Thursday 6th June (for scheduling purposes).

 

Judges: Nicolas Mathevon, Ole Larsen, Henrik Brumm, Masayo Soma, Dan Stowell.

 

The prize is sponsored by the open-access journal PeerJ, and includes:

  • An Award Certificate
  • An interview about your research, advertised on the PeerJ and IBAC websites
  • A voucher for free PeerJ publication (valued at $1095 USD) following peer-review, and given paper acceptance.

BACK TO TOP


 

Outstanding Poster Award

  Taylor & Francis are proud to award the prize for:

 

Outstanding Poster

to

 

WINNER: Dan C. Mann and co-authors

"Human-like plosive consonant variation in budgerigar warble"

 

Runner Up:
Tifany Volle and co-authors: "Age-related song repertoire changes in a
songbird, the black redstart"

Highly Commended:

Hana Kahounová and co-authors : "I don't care": Does capture and blood sampling affect
Tree Pipit males?"

Valentina Caorsi and co-authors : "Selection of most suitable parameters of vibrational
signals of the brown marmorated stink bug, Halyomorpha halys Stål
(Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) to enhance pest control"

Laura Redaelli and co-authors : "Vocal imitation in a Grey seal pup"

Michal Budka and co-authors : "Daily and seasonal changes in intensity of solo, duet and
chorus singing in a tropical songbird, the Chubb’s cisticola"

 

The prize is sponsored by Taylor & Francis, publisher of the peer-reviewed journal Bioacoustics: The International Journal of Animal Sound and its Recording, and includes:

 

  • An Award Certificate
  • £100 cash prize

 

Judging took place during the poster session on Tuesday 3rd September and posters were assessed on clarity, research quality and overall design.

 

The award was judged at presented during the Award Ceremony at the Gala dinner on Wednesday 4th September by Richard Ranft, Head of Sound and Vision at The British Library Sound Archive,  Professor Peter K. McGregor from the ISPA University Institute, Lisbon, and Dr Andrew Horn, Dalhousie University, Canada.

 

About the journal:

Bioacoustics primarily publishes high-quality original research papers and reviews on sound communication in birds, mammals, amphibians, reptiles, fish, insects and other invertebrates, including the following topics :

Communication and related behaviour
Sound production
Hearing
Ontogeny and learning
Bioacoustics in taxonomy and systematics
Impacts of noise
Bioacoustics in environmental monitoring
Identification techniques and applications
Recording and analysis
Equipment and techniques
Ultrasound and infrasound
Underwater sound
Bioacoustical sound structures, patterns, variation and repertoires

BACK TO TOP


Judges of the Craziest Spectogram, Coolest Sound Recording and Best Animal Vocal Imitation:
Ed Baker, Clément Cornec, Ahana Fernandez,Tamás Farago, Andy Hill, Beata Korcsok, Fanni Lehoczki, Juliette Lionossier, Pavel Pipek,Tomas Rostirolla, Abel Souriau, Sandor Zsebok

Craziest spectrogram

 

Winner: Jörg Rychen
Runner Up: Lionel Feugère

Spectrogram: A large gathering of Orcas vocalizing like crazy
Spectrogram by Jorg Rychen: A large gathering of Orcas vocalizing like crazy!
A stereo signal from two hydrophones placed 3m apart at 10m depth.
Left channel is red; right channel is green; yellow if both intensities are same.
Y-axis is from 200 Hz to 20 kHz; X-axis is 1 s.
A Gabor spectrogram (Gaussian windows) with resolution of 10 Hz and 2ms

 

A fun and informal competition for the craziest spectrogram. All conference delegates were welcome to participate.

The prize is a pair of Focal Listen Wireless Headphones in black: https://www.focal.com/headphones/listen-wireless/

Spectrograms should be submitted in PDF format with an accompanying short caption (100 words max) describing the sound, the spectrogram settings, and explaining why the spectrogram is ‘crazy’.

The image should be in black and white or greyscale on a single A4/letter size page in PDF format.

The filename should be set to your surname_title. Please include any text you would like featured underneath the spectrogram.

Submissions are limited to two per delegate.

Judges: Ed Baker, Clément Cornec, Ahana Fernandez,Tamás Farago, Andy Hill, Beata Korcsok, Fanni Lehoczki, Juliette Lionossier, Pavel Pipek,Tomas Rostirolla, Abel Souriau, Sandor Zsebok

Submissions should be sent to ibac2019awards@gmail.com before August 28, 2019 (midnight Greenwich Mean Time, GMT).

BACK TO TOP


 

Coolest sound recording

 

Winner: Louise Peckre
Runner Up: Tifany Volle


Greg Bryant's remixed compilations: Click the image to play the sound

A fun and informal competition for the coolest sound recording of a vocalisation. All conference delegates are welcome to participate.

The prize is a pair of Focal Listen Wireless Headphones in black: https://www.focal.com/headphones/listen-wireless/

Sound files should be submitted in MP3 format with an accompanying short caption (100 words max) describing the sound and explaining why it is ‘cool’. The sound should be no longer than 1 minute in length, and less than 10mb in size.

Submissions are limited to two per delegate.

The filename should be set to your surname_title. Please include any text you would like featured next to the recording in a .txt file under the same name. 

Submissions should be sent to ibac2019awards@gmail.com before August 28, 2019 (midnight Greenwich Mean Time, GMT).

BACK TO TOP


Best animal vocal imitation
 

Winner: Daniel Romeo Mujalli
 

Runners Up: Anna Osiecka, Raffaela Lesch, Dan Mann
 

Honourable Mention: David Reby


Greg Bryant's remixed compilations: Click the image to play the sound

BACK TO TOP


 

IBAC 2019 Travel Subsidy Application

Note: This is now closed.

The IBAC 2019 Travel Subsidy Application was created to provide financial assistance to students presenting at the XXVII International Bioacoustics Congress held at the University of Sussex, Brighton, UK, from 31st August to 5th September 2019 (www.2019.ibac.info). Funds are limited and based on need. In order to provide financial aid to as many students as possible, typically no more than £400 will be allocated to each applicant. This fund was made possible by sponsorship from our gold sponsor, Wildlife Acoustics Inc, and our bronze sponsors Avisoft, Dodotronic, and Cetacean Research Technology.
 

Applications for this are now closed. 

Travel subsidy applicants have been notified of the status of their application by email. Those who were awarded travel funds are asked to complete an expense claim form for an electronic transfer of funds, and will need to provide receipts for all claimed costs.

BACK TO TOP