Call for Symposia

Call for Symposia is now open.

The World Ecoacoustics Congress (WEC) serves as a global platform for researchers, scientists, technicians, engineers and practitioners to discuss and advance the field of ecoacoustics. For this purpose, a pivotal activity of our scientific program will be the Symposia: expert-led sessions aimed to address a specific topic in depth.

We strongly encourage submissions from delegates in developing nations and with diverse backgrounds, as we aim to foster a diverse and inclusive program. See guidelines and suggested themes below, but please feel free to suggest themes not listed below.

Submission guidelines

Each proposed session must have a lead chair, and we strongly encourage the inclusion of two or more co-chairs, with at least one being an early career researcher. Your submission should include a 250-word abstract outlining the session’s relevance, key topics, and the expected audience. The chair and co-chairs will be responsible for reviewing and selecting abstracts and posters submitted to their session. While we recommend symposia organisers to encourage submissions to their sessions, it is likely that others outside your network will participate in your symposia. If many symposia proposals are similar, we will encourage chairs to combine their sessions, possibly expanding to more than one allocated time slot.

Submissions close on the 15th of February 2026.

Symposia submissions

Suggested themes are listed below, but feel free to propose something different.

Suggested themes

Conservation technology

  • Integration of systems for biodiversity monitoring
  • Real-time monitoring

Soundscapes @ landscape scale

  • Investigating soundscapes at the landscape level
  • Landscape monitoring following disturbances

Beyond biophony: investigating other soundscapes components

  • Biophony/anthrophony/geophony interactions through soundscape analysis;

Ecological inference using ecoacoustics

  • Community level analysis integrating PAM and ML
  • Statistical techniques to infer occupancy and abundance from ML outputs in PAM
  • Abundance estimation

Applied ecoacoustics

  • Applications on biodiversity conservation and ecosystem monitoring
  • Applications to industry
  • Conservation science and management
  • Applications in NRM management

Monitoring

  • Monitoring populations and dynamics;
  • Monitoring protected areas
  • Community driven projects & outcomes
  • Monitoring ecosystem health
  • Monitoring cryptic species
  • Frog ecoacoustics
  • Acoustics of ecosystem services?
  • Insect sound classification & bioacoustics

Future-forward/innovative

  • Grand challenges & future directions
  • New ecology hypothesis based on acoustic research

Water

  • Freshwater acoustics
  • Marine acoustics

Arts

  • Ecoacoustics in the arts
  • Cultural importance of environmental sounds