Calendar of Other Upcoming Meetings

Alongside our own biennial conference, IBAC actively supports and promotes a wider network of educational and scientific gatherings. Browse the calendar below for upcoming workshops, webinars, and partner conferences in the field of bioacoustics and ecoacoustics.

2026 Events

January 5–16

Bioacoustics Winter School | Lyon, France

May 25–29

OceanNoise 2026 | Barcelona, Spain

July 20–24

20th International Society for Behavioral Ecology (ISBE) Conference | Turin, Italy

August 17–20

World Ecoacoustics Conference 2026 | Cairns, Australia

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2025

January 6–17

Bioacoustics Winter School | Lyon, France

May 26–30

Marine Soundscapes in the Anthropophony Era | Naples, Italy

June 24–26

Emerging Bioacousticians Days 2025 | Vernon, France

June 29 – July 4

Effects of Noise on Aquatic Life | Prague, Czech Republic

September 7–12

XXIX International Bioacoustics Conference | Kerteminde, Denmark

October 20–21

12th Annual Meeting of the Society for Bioacoustics | Tokyo, Japan

December 6

AI for Non-Human Animal Communication | San Diego, USA

2024

May 18–2

Neural Mechanisms of Acoustic Communication | Newry, USA

June 2–7

Detection, Classification, Localisation and Density Estimation (DCLDE) of Marine Mammals | Rotterdam, Netherlands

June 23–28

Marine Bioacoustics Summer School program (SeaBASS 2024) | Durham, USA

July 8–11

30th International Conference on Sound and Vibration (ICSV30) | Amsterdam, Netherlands

July 8–12

5th World Ecoacoustics Conference | Madrid, Spain

July 8–12

Recording Orthoptera Sounds International Workshop | Verona, Italy

August 26–30

Signal Analysis for Biodiversity | Lyon, France

September 1–6

4th African Bioacoustics Conference | Cape Town, South Africa

September 6–10

11th European Bat Detector Workshop | Mura, Spain

September 25–26

Bioacoustics & AI | Online

2023

Jan 3–17

Bioacoustics Winter School 2021 | Lyon, France

March 23–26

World Forum for Acoustic Ecology | Florida, USA

May 22–26

OCEANOISE | Barcelona, Spain

June 10–17

Wildlife Sound Recording Workshop | California, USA

June 28–30

The Emerging Bioacousticians’ Days | Saint Etienne, France

July 9–13

ICSV 2023 - 29th International Conference on Sound and Vibration | Prague, Czech Republic

September 11–15

Forum Acusticum 2023 | Torino, Italy

October 27 – Nov 1

XXVIII International Bioacoustics Conference | Hokkaido, Japan

November 13–17

Oceanoise Asia 2023 | Sanya, Hainan Province, China

November 20–30

1st Tropical Bioacoustics School | Cayenne, French Guiana

2022

January 3–14

Bioacoustics Winter School 2022 | Lyon, France

March 15–18

Effects of Sound in the Ocean on Marine Mammals | Beaufort, North Carolina, USA

June 15–16

UKAN+ Monitoring UK Biodiversity Conference | Manchester, UK

June 20–23

International Conference on Underwater Acoustics | Southampton, UK

July 10–15

2022 Effects of Noise on Aquatic Life | Berlin, Germany

August 1–5

Full-stack bioacoustics: field kit to AI to action | Leiden, Netherlands

August 6–19

Summer course in acoustic communication | University of Southern Denmark

September 9

IBAC online mini-conference | Online

October 2–7

3rd African Bioacoustics Conference | Kruger National Park, South Africa

Oct 31 – Nov 2

EcoHack 2022 | Stirling, Scotland

2021

Jan 4–15

Bioacoustics Winter School 2021 | Lyon, France

May 7

DOSITS Webinar: Acoustic Tag Technologies, Marine Mammals and Fishes | Online

June 23–27

World Conference of Ecoacoustics | Urbino University, Italy

September

DOSITS Webinar: Potential Effects of Sound on Marine Mammal Hearing | Online

2020

June 2

Webinar on the Fundamentals of Underwater Sound | Online

November 2–5

2nd African Bioacoustics Community Conference 2020 | Online

November 9–13

3rd Oceanoise Asia | Sanya, Hainan Province, China

December 7–11

Forum Acusticum | Lyon, France

December 7–11

Acoustics Virtually Everywhere | Online

Other Comprehensive Calendars

The European Acoustics Association

The Acoustical Society of America's (ASA)

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