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Concurrent to getting the “book bug,” we also discovered that we liked to organize symposia and went on to develop several other meetings (Table 1 ). The fi rst, on
fi sh hearing and bioacoustics, took place at the Mote Marine Lab in Sarasota, FL,
partly because it is a good facility and partly because we wanted to collaborate with
Bill Tavolga. Bill had retired from CCNY and was on the Mote staff. He had organized the two formative books in marine bioacoustics (Tavolga 1964 , 1967 ) and we
thought it would not only be fun to work with Bill but also to have the continuity
with the earlier meetings (Fig. 6 ). The best part of this meeting was that it allowed
us to invite colleagues from around the world, none of whom we had previously
met, including Tony Hawkins, Olav Sand, Arie Schuijf, and Per Enger (many of
whom have become good friends over the years).
Fig. 6 Bill Tavolga, Dick Fay, and Art Popper at the 1980 meeting on fi sh bioacoustics
Table 1 Major meetings organized by Richard Fay and Arthur Popper (this does not include a
number of symposia and smaller workshops we also organized)
“Comparative Studies of Hearing in Vertebrates,” November 1978, Honolulu, Hawaii,
at a joint meeting of the Acoustical Societies of America and Japan
“Hearing and Sound Communication in Fishes,” June, 1980, Sarasota, Florida (with
W. N. Tavolga)
“Sensory Biology of Aquatic Animals,” June 1985, Sarasota, Florida (with J. Atema and
W. N. Tavolga)
“Comparative Evolutionary Biology of Hearing,” May, 1990, Sarasota, Florida (with
D. B. Webster)
Fish Bioacoustics: Sensory Biology, Behavior, and Practical Applications, Chicago, IL, May
30–June 2, 2001 (with J. Webb)
A.N. Popper and R.R. Fay
Concurrent to getting the “book bug,” we also discovered that we liked to organize symposia and went on to develop several other meetings (Table 1 ). The fi rst, on
fi sh hearing and bioacoustics, took place at the Mote Marine Lab in Sarasota, FL,
partly because it is a good facility and partly because we wanted to collaborate with
Bill Tavolga. Bill had retired from CCNY and was on the Mote staff. He had organized the two formative books in marine bioacoustics (Tavolga 1964 , 1967 ) and we
thought it would not only be fun to work with Bill but also to have the continuity
with the earlier meetings (Fig. 6 ). The best part of this meeting was that it allowed
us to invite colleagues from around the world, none of whom we had previously
met, including Tony Hawkins, Olav Sand, Arie Schuijf, and Per Enger (many of
whom have become good friends over the years).
Fig. 6 Bill Tavolga, Dick Fay, and Art Popper at the 1980 meeting on fi sh bioacoustics
Table 1 Major meetings organized by Richard Fay and Arthur Popper (this does not include a
number of symposia and smaller workshops we also organized)
“Comparative Studies of Hearing in Vertebrates,” November 1978, Honolulu, Hawaii,
at a joint meeting of the Acoustical Societies of America and Japan
“Hearing and Sound Communication in Fishes,” June, 1980, Sarasota, Florida (with
W. N. Tavolga)
“Sensory Biology of Aquatic Animals,” June 1985, Sarasota, Florida (with J. Atema and
W. N. Tavolga)
“Comparative Evolutionary Biology of Hearing,” May, 1990, Sarasota, Florida (with
D. B. Webster)
Fish Bioacoustics: Sensory Biology, Behavior, and Practical Applications, Chicago, IL, May
30–June 2, 2001 (with J. Webb)
A.N. Popper and R.R. Fay