Awards

  1. Types of awards
    1. Most outstanding presentation award: 1 person
    2. Outstanding presentation award(s): 1 or 2 persons
  2. Application requirements
    1. Students or researchers within 3 years after acquisition of degree
    2. Being a member of the Society of Bioacoustics
  3. How to apply?
    1. Indicate that you would like to apply the awards when you submit your application of a presentation.
  4. Judging system
    1. The award winners are selected by the selection board of SFBA.

Past Winners

Year of 2020 (The 7th Annual Meeting of the Society for Bioacoustics)

  1. Most Outstanding Presentation Award

    • Rafael Ayala Lara “Assessing noise-induced stress in larval zebrafish: behavioral affection and sensory loss”

Year of 2019 (The 6th Annual Meeting of the Society for Bioacoustics)

  1. Most Outstanding Presentation Award

    • Valeria Fattoruso “Vibrational communication of the greenhouse whitefly Trialeurodes vaporariorum (Westwood) (Homoptera: Aleyrodidae)”

  2. Outstanding Presentation Award

    • Keigo Kobayashi “Development of Japanese bat species identification system by echolocation calls using deep learning and evaluation of increasing images by GAN”

    • Shoyo Nakamura “Does the trapdoor spider Latouchia typica use vibration as the cue of predatory behavior?”

Year of 2018 (The 5th Annual Meeting of the Society for Bioacoustics)

  1. Most Outstanding Presentation Award

    • Mika Kuroda “Sound production and frequency-determining mechanism in the head of toothed whales”

  2. Outstanding Presentation Award

    • Bo Zhou “Multilevel innnervations to the auditory pathway by GABAergic neurons in the mouse basal ganglia”

Year of 2017 (The 4th Annual Meeting of the Society for Bioacoustics)

  1. Most Outstanding Presentation Award
    • Yui K Matsumoto “The relationship between ultrasonic songs and testis weight in male mice”
  2. Outstanding Presentation Award

    • Sinyoung Lee “Simulation of electrical changes in the inner hair cells derived from the basilar membrane vibration”

Year of 2016 (The 3rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Bioacoustics)

  1. Most Outstanding Presentation Award
    • Hiromi Mukai “Male jewel bugs localize female calling vibrations: directional vibration sensing by chordotonal organs”
  2. Outstanding Presentation Award

    • Sinyoung Lee “Finite-element model of human active cochlea: Short-time variation of DP components on the BM”

Year of 2015 (The 2nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Bioacoustics)

  1. Most Outstanding Presentation Award
    • Nao Ota (Hokkaido University), “Does tap dance contribute to producing louder sounds?: The relationship between dance performance and sound amplitude in the courtship display of a socially monogamous songbird”
  2. Outstanding Presentation Award
    • Cheng-Han Chou (Endemic Species Research Institute), “Echolocation variations of insectivorous bats in Taiwan”

Year of 2014 (The 1st Annual Meeting of the Society for Bioacoustics)

  1. Most Outstanding Presentation Award
    • Daiki Goto (Doshisha University), “Modification in pulse characteristics in flying Japanese horseshoe bats during acoustically interfered conditions produced by multiple conspecifics”
  2. Outstanding Presentation Award
    • Shota Murai (Doshisha University), “Cortical substrates for the perception of the noise-vocoded speech sounds: Evaluation with listening test and fMRI”
    • Tomoyo Isoguchi Shiramatsu (The University of Tokyo), “Oscillation in rat auditory cortex representing texture of chord”