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Acoustical Society of America 2021 Awards and Prizes Recipients
ASA Fall 2021 Award Recipients
SAE International Recognizes Dr. Pranab Saha with the Organization’s 2021 Medal of Honor
David Dowling receives ASME Per Bruel Gold Medal
David A. Conant awarded the Laymon N. Miller Award for Excellence in Acoustical Consulting
Sue Numrich Receives 2020 Goodpaster Award for Excellence in Research
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John Buck promoted to rank of Chancellor Professor at UMass Dartmouth
ASA member Georg Essel Named a Gugenheim Fellow
Karl Grosh Named Recipient of the the Per Bruel Gold Medal for Noise Control and Acoustics
Reconstructing the Acoustics of Notre Dame
Acentech staff recognized by the Institute of Noise Control Engineering
Argonne scientist Ralph Muehleisen advances energy sciences through professional leadership
2019 ARO Award of Merit Winner – Peter Narins, PhD
2018 Acoustician Article Links
The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association awards Judy R. Dubno Honors of the Association and names Kristin Tjaden a Fellow
The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association awards Judy R. Dubno Honors of the Association and names Kristin Tjaden a Fellow
Sean F. Wu Awarded the Per Bruel Gold Medal by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Sean F. Wu Awarded the Per Bruel Gold Medal by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Michael A. Bahtiarian named recipient of the 2018 William W. Lang Award for the Distinguished Noise Control Engineer
Michael A. Bahtiarian named recipient of the 2018 William W. Lang Award for the Distinguished Noise Control Engineer
Cynthia Moss named Fellow of the International Society of Neuroethology
Cynthia Moss named Fellow of the International Society of Neuroethology
Judy Dubno awarded the Governor’s Award for Excellence in Science
Judy Dubno awarded the Governor’s Award for Excellence in Science, South Carolina’s highest honor.
Stephanie Adams-Ball named President of the National Council of Acoustical Consultants
Denver, CO – July 18, 2018 – Stephanie Adams-Ball, Associate Principal/Vice President of D.L. Adams Associates, was recently elected president of the prestigious National Council of Acoustical Consultants (NCAC) 2018-2020 Board of Directors. D.L. Adams…
ASA Fellow Brian Ferguson awarded the David Robinson Award
2017 Special David Robinson Award Winner Dr Brian Ferguson is the Principal Scientist (Acoustic Systems) at Maritime Division Sydney, Defence Science and Technology Group. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Australia and a Fellow of the…
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Will artificial intelligence let us talk to the animals?
L is Smooth, R is Rough: Our Brains Link Sounds to Sensations – Neuroscience News
Male bowerbirds build acoustics into their love shrines
Traffic noise causes lifelong harm to baby birds
Fish make music! It could be the key to healing degraded coral reefs
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Restoring Hearing with Beams of Light
Why the US Military is Listening to Shrimp
Listening to the Martian Soundscape
Noise from deep-sea mining may span vast ocean areas
Human-Made Noise Disrupts Fish Parenting
Bats tell predators to ‘buzz off' — literally
New Research Decodes the Sea Cow's Hidden Language
Recreating the lost sounds of spring
Fossils Reveal When Animals Started Making Noise
New “Acoustic Fabric” Hears Your Heart’s
Scientists want to create a library of every sound in the ocean
Grunts, boops, chatters and squeals — fish are noisy creatures
Why whales flee from sonar—sometimes to their death
Dolphins whistle to keep in touch with distant friends
GROWING UP ON ZOOM: KIDS IN THE TIME OF COVID
2022 Excellence in Audio Digital Storytelling, Use of Audio Storytelling winner
Making Sense: How sound becomes hearing
Podcast with ASA Fellow Professor Diana Deutsch
2021 News Article Links
Ocean noise: Study to measure the oceans' ‘year of quiet
How your Brain Tracks Moving Sounds
Female green tree frogs have noise-canceling lungs that help them hear mates
My race against time to capture the sounds of ancient rainforests
Neanderthal ears were tuned to hear speech just like modern humans
Biologist Marie Fish Catalogued the Sounds of the Ocean for the World to Hear
Quantifying perceptual errors in virtual soundscapes
Twenty Thousand Hertz – LRAD episode
The Deterrent Tone (podcast) – Twenty Thousand Hertz
Masks Save Lives, but May Hinder Communication
Trouble hearing in a crowded room? New ‘cone of silence’ could help
Moths draped in stealth acoustic cloak evade bat sonar
Exploring cultural heritage through acoustic digital reconstructions
Explaining the sound of Purdue’s ‘clapping circle’
Before migrating, some blue whales switch up the timing of their songs
Metropolitan Acoustics wins the 2021 INCE Member’s Choice Project of the Year Award
Baby bats babble, much like human infants
Deaf scientists thrive with interpreters and technology
The search for the loneliest whale in the world
Scientific innovations harness noise and acoustics for healing
As ‘phantom rivers’ roar, birds and bats change their hunting habits
How Environmental Noise Harms the Cardiovascular System
How Navy money changed the course of sea science
Bats don’t have to learn the speed of sound – they’re born knowing it
When Pursuing Prey, Bats Tune Out the World
2020 News Article Links
Ocean’s hidden heat measured with earthquake sounds
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Earthquake Sounds Could Reveal How Quickly the Ocean Is Warming
Global quieting of high-frequency seismic noise due to COVID-19 pandemic lockdown measures
Stonehenge enhanced sounds like voices or music for people inside the monument
Use sound to represent/communicate data
The Coronavirus Quieted City Noise. Listen to What’s Left
Remixing the world, one sound at a time
A Linguistic Lens on Artificial Intelligence
Tuning in to a Glacial Symphony
Dolphin ‘gangs’ protect their females by vocalizing in sync
Fewer US researchers are disclosing disabilities on NIH grant applications
‘Parentese,' not traditional baby talk, boosts a baby's language development
Minke whales are struggling to communicate over the din of ocean noise
Listen to the groaning voice of a 3000-year old Egyptian mummy
How to restore the legendary acoustics of Notre Dame
Ultrasound Selectively Damages Cancer Cells When Tuned to Correct Frequencies
Researchers Develop a “FrogPhone” to Remotely Call Frogs in the Wild
Low Frequency Sound May Predict Tornado Formation
Star Wars-style 3D images created from single speck of foam
Healthy coral sounds lure fish back to abandoned reefs, study finds
2019 News Article Links
Why Everything is Getting Louder
Get Off My Lawn
How a small group of activists (our correspondent among them) got leaf blowers banned in the nation’s capital
Squirrels Relax When They Hear Birds Relaxing
Scientists show that squirrels have one ear tuned to the chatter of birds, and act on what they learn from eavesdropping.
Human speech may have a universal transmission rate: 39 bits per second
Watch a tiny worm make one of the loudest sounds in the ocean
Translating proteins into music, and back
Stethoscopes: An experimental study
Statistical mechanics meets music theory
Browsing Deer Affect How A Forest Sounds
Sound waves bypass visual limitations to recognize human activity
These ocean floats can hear earthquakes, revealing mysterious structures deep inside Earth
Human noise may be scrambling the eggs of baby fish
Photoacoustic imaging enables scientists to step up war on cancer
The best place for a bird's voice box is low in the airway, researchers find
Mysterious river dolphin helps crack the code of marine mammal communication
Morphing origami takes a new shape, expanding use possibilities
To Save the Sound of a Stradivarius, a Whole City Must Keep Quiet
The best place for a bird's voice box is low in the airway, researchers find
These Whales Are Serenaders of the Seas. It’s Quite a Racket
Artificial intelligence turns brain activity into speech
The sound of a tropical forest
These sound waves can levitate and move particles in new ways
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These tiny, stretchy speakers and microphones let your skin play music
The way you cry as a baby may predict your voice as an adult
Narwhals, walruses are most at risk from booming Arctic ship traffic
Quieting a room with metamaterial wall panels
The keen hearing of young musicians
These bats use stealth sonar, likely to evade rivals
Noise exposure is becoming ‘the new secondhand smoke’
Uncovering ancient practices through acoustics
This Hummingbird Makes the Highest-Pitched Call Of Any Bird
Acoustic lighthouses’ could prevent birds from hitting buildings
Porpoises found to shift forehead tissue to fine-tune sonar signals
Cheetahs’ ears are crucial for catching dinner
Some Types Of Songs Are Universally Identifiable, Study Suggests
The Second Coming of Ultrasound
New device can transmit underwater sound to air
Tiny device could help you hear better underwater