Joe collecting midshipman from a nest.

Biography

Joseph Sisneros is currently Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychology and is an adjunct Professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Washington. He is also an affiliate faculty of the UW Virginia Merrill Bloedel Hearing Research Center and the UW Graduate program in Neuroscience. He received his BS in Marine Biology (1988) and MS in Biology (1993) from California State University Long Beach where he was advised by Dr. Donald Nelson (shark behaviorist, 1937-1997). Joe received a PhD (1999) in Biology from the Florida Institute of Technology where he investigated the neural basis of electroreception in elasmobranch fishes. He was mentored by Dr. Timothy Tricas (animal behaviorist and neuroethologist, now at the University of Hawaii at Manoa).
       
Following his PhD, Joe received post-doctoral training in the lab of Dr. Andrew Bass (neuroanatomist and neuroethologist) at Cornell University from 1999-2004 in the Dept of Neurobiology and Behavior where he investigated seasonal and steroid-dependent changes in the auditory system of fishes. He joined the faculty at the University of Washington in 2004 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology (Area of Animal Behavior). Joe was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2010 and then to full Professor in 2016. He was elected a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America in 2016.

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Joe is also Series Editor for the Springer Handbook of Auditory Research (SHAR) and is an Associate editor (Animal Bioacoustics) for the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (JASA). In addition, Joe is a co-organizer for the recent international conferences on The Effects of Noise on Aquatic Life (AN2013 in Budapest, Hungary; AN2016 in Dublin, Ireland; AN2019 in Den Haag, Netherlands; AN2022 in Berlin, Germany; and AN2025 in Prague, Czech Republic).

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Recent Publications:
 

Lucke K, MacGillivray AO, Halvorsen MB, Ainslie MA, Zeddies DG, and JA Sisneros. 2024. Recommendations on bioacoustical metrics relevant for regulating exposure to anthropogenic underwater sound. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 156: 2508-2526.

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Guan S, Popper AN, Haxel J, Martin J, Miller JH, Nedelec S, Potty G, Roberts L, Sisneros JA, Dangerfield A. 2024. Research methodologies to study behavioral and physiological effects on fishes and aquatic invertebrates from particle motion and substrate-borne vibration exposure. Sterling (VA): U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management. 102 p. Obligation No. 140M0123Q0027. Report No.: OCS Study BOEM 2024-036. 

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Popper AN, Sisneros JA, Hawkins AD, and F Thomsen. 2024. Effects of Noise on Aquatic Life: Principles and Practical Considerations, Vols.1-3, Springer, Cham.

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Sisneros JA, Thomsen F, Lepper P, Scholik-Schomer AR, Hawkins AD, and AN Popper. 2024. Effects of Noise on Aquatic Life: An Overview of the Berlin Conference. In: Popper AN, Sisneros JA, Hawkins, AD, and F Thomsen (Eds). Effects of Noise on Aquatic Life: Principles and Practical Considerations. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10417-6_193-1

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Popper AN, Amorim C, Fine ML, Higgs DM, Mensinger AF, and JA Sisneros. 2024. Introduction to the special issue on fish bioacoustics: Hearing and sound communication. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 155: 2385-2391.

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