Universití degli Studi di Pavia Centro Interdisciplinare di Bioacustica e Ricerche Ambientali Via Taramelli 24 - 27100 Pavia - Italy e-mail : Other than doing research in cooperation with many prestigious national and international institutions and being committed to education and training, CIBRA provides consultancy and specialized services. Based on a large experience in designing its own original equipment and in performing marine mammals surveys and underwater bioacoustic research, CIBRA can provide support to other scientific, industrial and military institutions to setup their own experimental protocols, to design their instrumentation and to assist in the design and implementation of mitigation procedures to evaluate and reduce the impact of underwater noise on marine mammals. For all these activities CIBRA can offer its own expertize, its specialized equipment, experienced personnel, and specialized partnerships with external companies. To know more jump to the . CIBRA is a member of the International Bio-Acoustic Council and a founder member of the recently created European Network of Bioacoustic Collections for Taxonomy and Conservation'. Some words about bioacoustics and the IBAC Bioacoustics is a branch of zoology, strictly related to ethology, that investigates sound production and reception in animals, including man. Bioacoustics also concerns the organs of hearing and the sound produ...