• Degree sought
• Expected date of graduation
• ASA Technical Committee area
• Number of ASA meetings attended
• Likelihood of ASA meeting attendance during the Student Council term of appointment

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To ASA student members,  

To encourage student participation in the Hong Kong meeting, student registration fees will be reimbursed for this meeting. Specifically, "ASA will provide grants to pay preregistration fees for students from North America. Applicants are required to be the first author of a paper presented at the meeting, and to be a student at a school in Canada, the United States, or Mexico. To qualify, students should send the following information toasa@aip.org by February 1, 2012: Name, Title of Abstract, email address, and school attended with full address. ASA will provide a check in US dollars for $300 (USD) to all applicants satisfying the above conditions at the meeting in Hong Kong upon presentation of a current student ID and copy of the paid preregistration."

The Hong Kong abstract deadline is Nov 15 for the spring 2012 ASA meeting (May 13-18). For more information, seehttp://acoustics2012hk.org/.

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3rd Symposium on Acoustic Communication by Animals, August 1–5, 2011, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

~ A special report by Mary Bates

On August 1-5 2011, Cornell University hosted the Third International Symposium on Acoustic Communication by Animals. From more than twenty entries, four were chosen as the best student papers: Diane Colombelli-Negrel from Flinders University, Australia; Rachele Malavasi from the University of Carlo Bo, Italy; Emily Cramer from Cornell University; and Oswaldo Gil-Guevara from The University of the Andes, Colombia. Colombelli-Negrel, in her talk entitled "Vocal cues reveal intruder nestlings: Evidence for an acoustical host-parasite arms race that starts inside the egg," posited the existence of a learned parent-offspring password, present in parental song and in fledging begging calls, that allows superb fairy wrens to distinguish their own chicks from potential freeloaders like cuckoo chicks. Malavasi spoke on "When birds play Tetris: Cooperation among heterospecific songbirds through coordinated choruses." Comparing the temporal and spectral structure of multi-species choruses in stable and temporary communities, she concluded that more stable communities functioned as a cooperative neighborhood by sharing the available acoustic space. Cramer's poster "Trill performance and trill consistency do not affect male responses to playback in house wrens" described unexpected negative results that may reveal more about the idiosyncrasies of house wren song as compared to other passerine birds. In his poster "Adjusted phonotactic reactions towards sound intensity and fine temporal traits mediate territorial defense in the poison frog Oophaga histrionica," Gil-Guevara reported that male poison frogs listen to  the sound intensity and fine temporal characteristics of the calls of other males and adjust their territorial aggressive responses accordingly. Congratulations to the winners and to all the students who presented at the conference.

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