The Second International Conference on the Effects of Noise on Aquatic Life will take place in Ireland August 15-20, 2010. The main emphasis of the conference will be on defining the current state of knowledge. However, we will also assess progress in the three years since the First conference. The Second conference will place strong emphasis on recent research results, the sharing of ideas, discussion of experimental approaches, and analysis of regulatory issues.

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1. Noise and Marine Life: Progress From Nyborg to Cork in Science and Technology to Inform Decision Making.- 2. Listening Backward Early Days of Marine Bioacoustics.- Section 2 Sound Detection by Aquatic Animals.- 3. Effects of Underwater Noise on Marine Mammals.- 4. Psychophysical Studies of Auditory Masking in Marine Mammals: Key Concepts and New Directions.- 5. On the Relationship Between Environmental Noise, Critical Ratios, and Comodulation Masking Release in the Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus).- 6 . Direct Measurements of Subjective Loudness in a Bottlenose Dolphin.- 7. High Auditory Time Resolution in Bottlenose Dolphins Is Effective Protection Against Reverberation.- 8. Frequency Selectivity in the Bottlenose Dolphin Auditory System.- 9. Auditory Brain Stem Responses Associated with Echolocation in an Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus).- 10. Hearing, Noise, and Echolocating Odontocetes.- 11. Evoked Potential Audiometry in Aquatic Mammals.- 12. Prediction of a Mysticete Audiogram via Finite Element Analysis of the Middle Ear.- 13. Reverse Engineering the Cetacean Ear to Extract Audiograms.- 14. Validation of a Vibroacoustic Finite Element Model Using Bottlenose Dolphin Experiments.- 15. Acoustic Function in the Peripheral Auditory System of Cuvier's Beaked Whale (Ziphius cavirostris).- 16. Auditory Evoked Potential Measurement of Hearing Sensitivity in Pinnipeds.- 17. Hearing in Birds: What Changes From Air to Water.- 18. Amphibious Hearing in Sea Turtles.- 19. Hearing Capabilities of Loggerhead Sea Turtles (Caretta caretta) Throughout Ontogeny.- 20. Are Sharks Even Bothered by a Noisy Environment?.- 21. Optimal Auditory Sensitivity Under Variable Background Noise Conditions: A Theoretical Model.- 22. A Critical Reevaluation of the Role of Acoustic Pressure in Source Localization by Fish.- 23. Vibration of the Otoliths in a Teleost.- 24. Hearing Sensitivity of the Painted Goby, Pomatoschistus pictus.- 25. AcousticCommunication in Pomatoschistus spp.: A Comparison Between Closely Related Species.- 26. The Importance of Hearing for Survival of Danio rerio (Zebrafish) in an Experimental Predator/Prey Environment.- 27. Lateral Line Canal Morphology and Noise Reduction.- 28. Potential for Sound Sensitivity in Cephalopods.- 29. Listening in Noise.- 30. Discovery of Sound in the Sea: An On-line Resource.- Section 3 - Sound Production by Aquatic Animals.- 31. Whistles of Bottlenose Dolphins: Group Repertoires and Geographic Variations in Brazilian Waters.- 32. Detection and Classification of Vocalizations for the Study of Marine Mammal Distributions in the Chukchi Sea.- 33. Acoustic Ecology and Behavior of Minke Whales in the Hawaiian and Marianas Islands: Localization, Abundance Estimation and Characterization of Minke Whale Boings.- 34. What You See Is Not What You Hear: The Relationship Between Odontocete Echolocation Click Production and Hearing.- 35. Sound Production and Reception in Southern Sea Otters (Enhydra lutris nereis).- 36. Nocturnal Acoustic Activity in the Shallow Waters of the WWF-Miramare Natural Marine Reserve (Trieste, Italy).- 37. Acoustic Ecology of the California Mantis Shrimp (Hemisquilla californiensis) .- 38. Influence of Turbidity on the Incidence of Sound Production in Atlantic Croaker (Micropogonias undulatus) in Pamlico Sound, North Carolina.- 39. Propagation of Lusitanian Toadfish Sounds in Estuarine Shallow Waters.- 40. Sound Production in Some Physostomous Fish Species and Effects of Biological Sounds on Fish.- 41. Is Biological Sound Production Important in the Deep Sea?.- 42.- Unusual and Unexpected Biological Noisemakers in the Irish Sea and St. George's Channel.- Section 4 - Physiological Effects of Sounds.- 43. Noise-Induced Hearing Loss: From Animal Models to Human Trials.- 44. Auditory Effects of Underwater Noise in Odontocetes.- 45. Implementation of Acoustic Dosimeters With Recoverable Month-Long GPS/TDR Tags to InterpretControlled-Exposure Experiments for Large Whales.- 46. Marine Mammal Auditory System Noise Impacts: Evidence and Incidence.- 47. Effect of Broadband Sounds on the Auditory Evoked Potential Thresholds in the Beluga Whale.- 48. The ESME Workbench: Simulating the Impact of Anthropogenic Sound on Marine Mammals.- 49. Using EarLab to Study Masking Due to Anthropogenic Sound.- 50. Portable Auditory Evoked Potential System to Assess Odontocete Hearing.- 51. Barotrauma in Fish and Barotrauma Metrics.- 52. Assessment of Barotrauma Injury and Cumulative Sound Exposure Level on Salmon After Exposure to Impulsive Sound.- 53. Shipboard Assessment of Hearing Sensitivity of Tropical Fishes Immediately After Exposure to Seismic Air Gun Emissions at Scott Reef.- 54. A Lack of Correlation Between Air Gun Signal Pressure Waveforms and Fish Hearing Damage.- 55. Effects of Short- and Long-Term Exposure to Boat Noise on Cortisol Levels in Juvenile Fish.- 56. Potential Effects of Long-Term Exposure to Boat Noise on the Growth, Survi...