Faculty & Staff Highlights - January 2026

Adam Pack, Professor, Psychology and Biology, last month co-chaired special sessions on "Animal Bioacoustics: Baleen Whale Acoustics" at the 6th Joint Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the Japan Acoustical Society held at the Hilton Hawaiian Village Resort in Honolulu.

During these sessions, Pack was the lead author on the talk "Eavesdropping on a humpback whale male's song can provide information on its physical and reproductive condition." He was also a co-author on "Humpback whales in a population sing the same song-or do they? Assessing intra- and inter-individual song variability on the Hawaiian Breeding ground," "A comparison of humpback whale song structure between the Northwestern and main Hawaiian Islands," "Estimating bearings to low-frequency baleen whale calls with closely spaced hydrophones," "Lombard effect in humpback whales in Hawaii is context and call-type dependent," and "The behavioral context in social call production by humpback whales on the Hawaiian breeding ground."

He also co-chaired a workshop on the functions of humpback whale song held at the NOAA facility at Aloha Tower in Honolulu.

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