The next virtual webinar sponsored by the American Cetacean Society (ACS) will be held on Wednesday September 11 at 7:00pm over Zoom. Dr. Audra Ames will be the speaker. No registration is required.

About the Presentation:

Dr. Audra Ames will be speaking on Communication sounds of narwhal and beluga whales.

About the Speaker:

Dr. Audra Ames is a bioacoustician studying the communication and echolocation systems of toothed whales. She is a postdoctoral research associate with the Animal Behavior and Senses Lab at Hubbs SeaWorld Research Institute (San Diego, CA). Dr. Ames was a graduate student of the Marine Mammal Behavior and Cognition Lab at the University of Southern Mississippi, where she completed her Master’s study of signature whistle development of a bottlenose dolphin calf in response to production of signature whistles from the calf’s social group surrounding the calf’s birth. She was recruited to study beluga vocal development at Oceanográfic in Valencia, Spain as her PhD thesis following completion of her Master’s thesis in 2016. The beluga vocal repertoire became Dr. Ames’ primary focus until the completion of her PhD in 2019, when she pivoted her experience to studying additional species. She remained as a researcher at Oceanográfic (Spain) until December 2023, when she joined the team at Hubbs. Currently, her studies are focused on the communication sounds of belugas, narwhals, bottlenose dolphins, and Risso’s dolphins. She is exploring the unique sounds individuals of these species produce to determine how they are produced and processed, if and how they are affected by human-made disturbances, and if they can be used for monitoring purposes.

Join the Zoom presentation.

Meeting ID: 513 147 5168 Passcode: Whales