8:30-9:30           Gathering and coffee
9:30-10:30         Plenary talk by Prof. Jesse Barber, "Sensory ecology as a lens to                                       understand the costs of noise exposure for wildlife"
10:30-11:00       Plenary talk by Dr. Noam Leader, "The need for conservation of the                                 acoustic environment in natural habitats in Israel"
11:00-11:30       Coffee break
11:30-13:15       Contributed talks session 1:

• “Using on-board sound recordings to infer behaviour of free-moving wild animals” Prof. Yossi Yovel, TAU

• “The benefits of insect-swarm hunting to echolocating bats, and its influence on the evolution of bat echolocation signals” Dr. Arjan Boonman, TAU

• “Why a jamming avoidance response does not help bats deal with jamming” Omer Mazar, TAU

• “Use of foraging habitats by insectivorous bats in Britannia Park and its surroundings using passive bioacoustic methods” Prof. Carmi Korine, BGU

• “Implementing Hydroacoustic methods to study Marine Nature Reserves” Sarah Ohayon, TAU                              

13:15-14:15       Lunch break
14:15-15:15       Contributed talks session 2:

• “A crescendo in the inner structure of snorts: a reflection of increasing arousal in rock hyrax songs?” Yishai A. Weissman, BIU

• “Do rock hyrax songs include an ultrasonic component?” Gal Frydman, BIU

• “Continuous monitoring of acoustic signaling in the cricket Gryllus bimaculatus” Keren Levy, TAU

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15:15-15:45 Coffee break

15:45-16:45 Contributed talks session 3:

• “Bird song recognition segmentation and analysis” Prof. Yizhar Lavner, Tel-Hai College

• “Automatic classification of birds by their voices using an LSTM network” Moshe Bashan, Tel-Hai College

• “Managing an invisible pollutant: using soundscape recordings to better understand noise pollution and its implications on song-birds’ behavior” Yael Lehnardt, BGU

     
16:45-17:30       Plenary talk by Dr. Oded Berger-Tal, "Mechanisms matter: the role of 

                             sensory ecology in conservation" and symposium wrap-up.