Professors, Assistant Professors and PhD students from the ENES lab are strongly involved in teaching at the Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Etienne. Our teachings include:
- Animal cognition
- Behavioural ecology
- Animal communication
- Ethology
- Physiology
- Ecology
- Information theory
- Statistics


Equipe de Neuro-Ethologie Sensorielle
BIOACOUSTICS RESEARCH LAB
Bioacoustics Winter School
Bioacoustic combines biology and acoustics. It investigates the production, propagation and reception of sounds produced by living beings. Fundamentally, bioacoustics is particularly interested in acoustic communication mechanisms (animal and human "languages"). On the applied level, bioacoustics covers several aspects, such as the study of the effects of anthropogenic noises on animals and humans (e.g. impacts of sounds produced by boats on marine mammals), the use of acoustic probes to characterize the quality of ecosystems, acoustic monitoring of animal populations (e.g. counting of birds), the use of biological sounds for pests’ scaring (e.g. birds on airport runways), etc
Learning objectives
Training in bioacoustic scientific investigations and tools
At the end of the course, the following skills will have been acquired:
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knowledge in how to use the basic material necessary for any study in bioacoustics (digital recorder, microphones, speakers);
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basic knowledge in sound and signal processing (use of softwares such as PRAAT and Seewave);
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skills in how to set up a bioacoustic study (scientific question, experimental design, realization of experiments, results’ analysis);
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general knowledge on the bioacoustic world and its interests, both in basic and applied research
The two week training is concluded by a written and oral exam, and successful students will receive a certification in bioacoustics by the University of Lyon/Saint-Etienne.
Organizers
Nicolas Mathevon & Frédéric Sèbe
Teaching staff
Olivier Adam, Professor, Sorbonne Univ
Jean-Yves Barnagaud, Associate Professor, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes
Yves Bas, Researcher, Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle Paris
Marilyn Beauchaud, Associate Professor, Univ Lyon/Saint-Etienne
Elodie Briefer, Professor, Univ Copenhagen
Isabelle Charrier, Senior Researcher CNRS, Univ Paris-Sud
Tudor Draganoiu, Associate Professor, Univ Nanterre
Paulo Fonseca, Professor, Univ Lisboa
Hervé Glotin, Professor, Univ Toulon
Michael Greenfield, Professor, Research Associate, Univ Lyon/Saint-Etienne
Mirjam Knörnschild, Group Leader, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
Florence Levréro, Associate Professor, Univ Lyon/Saint-Etienne
Nicolas Mathevon, Professor, Univ Lyon/Saint-Etienne
Vincent Médoc, Associate Professor, Univ Lyon/Saint-Etienne
Andrea Ravignani, Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
David Reby, Professor, Univ Lyon/Saint-Etienne
Colleen Reichmuth, Senior Researcher, Univ California Santa-Cruz
Fanny Rybak, Associate Professor, Univ Paris-Sud
Frédéric Sèbe, Associate Professor, Univ Lyon/Saint-Etienne
Jérôme Sueur, Associate Professor, Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle Paris
Simon Townsend, Professor, University of Zurich
PhD and Post-Doc students of the ENES lab
Registration
Contact: emmanuelle.combe@univ-st-etienne
Applications for the 2024 session (January 8-19) is now open (deadline: September 30, 2023).
Tuition fees: 1200 € (excluding housing & meals)
Discount rates for students registered at the University of Lyon/Saint-Etienne

Funding
BWS is partly supported by:
the University of Lyon/Saint-Etienne