The workshop, titled "Detection of Marine Mammal Sounds: A Passive Acoustic Training Workshop" is a workshop held at the San Diego  Supercomputer Center in La Jolla, California (part of the University of California at San Diego), over a period of 2.5 days in which attendees will learn basic signal detection, processing, and classification techniques using MATLAB and Ishmael (a sound analysis software developed by BioWaves, Incorporated). The workshop is headed by Dr. Dave Mellinger, a researcher at both Oregon State University and the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL). I am hoping to  gain knowledge on how to use these software tools for my own research, especially sense target detection and classification are of great use to me; My research focuses on bats as an animal model, but the skills learned here can be easily translated into my own work. In addition, I am looking forward to bieing able to network with other bioacoustics researchers attending the workshop. In addition, PMEL is one of the leading research organizations in my field (bioacoustics) and it would be an excellent experience to be able to form connections with this organization early in my research career.
Expenses include:
- the flight (~$550.00 for a round trip according to google flights see link: https://www.google.com/flights/#search;f=ROA;t=SAN;d=2017-01-17;r=2017-01-20) 
-hotel and taxi expenses (~$ 350 for 3 nights based on hotel pricings close to UCSD see link of hotels map in the vicinity of campus: https://www.google.com/maps/search/hotels+near+UCSD/@32.8733733,-117.2692985,13z/data=!3m1!4b1) 
-workshop registration is free.