Acquired Hearing Loss: Are Prevention and Reversal Realistic Goals?. 2
Colleen Le Prell 2
U-boat Predators in the Great War: “A Problem of Physics, Pure and Simple”. 3
Roy Manstan. 3
The Acoustics of the Modern Jazz Drum Kit 4
K. Ellington Scott 4
Andrew Morrison. 4
Immersive Wave Experimentation and The Matrix. 5
Jan van Manen. 5
Johan Robertsson. 5
Reflected Sound: Friend or Foe?. 6
Pavel Zahorik. 6
Matthew Neal 6
Acquired Hearing Loss: Are Prevention and Reversal Realistic Goals?
Colleen Le Prell
Callier Center for Communication Disorders
1966 Inwood Road
Dallas, Texas 75235, USA
Colleen Le Prell is the Emilie and Phil Schepps Professor of Hearing Science; chair of the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing; and program head for the PhD Program in Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas. She has received research funding from government, industry, and philanthropic sources. Clinical, translational, and applied research in her laboratory advances the understanding and prevention of noise-induced hearing loss.
U-boat Predators in the Great War: “A Problem of Physics, Pure and Simple”
Roy Manstan
30 Hedlund Road
East Haddam, Connecticut 06423, USA
Roy Manstan began his field engineering career in 1967 at the US Navy Underwater Sound Laboratory, retiring in December 2005 from the Naval Undersea Warfare Center. He received degrees in mechanical engineering from Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania (BS) and the University of Connecticut, Storrs (MS) and in zoology from Connecticut College, New London (MA). Qualifying as a Navy diver in 1974, he was later appointed command diving officer, working with antisubmarine warfare technologies worldwide. After retirement, he volunteered at Old Saybrook High School, Old Saybrook, Connecticut, creating a working replica of the Revolutionary War submarine Turtle. Photo shows him emerging through its hatch (Mantsan and Frese, 2020).
The Acoustics of the Modern Jazz Drum Kit
E. K. Ellington Scott
Graduate Program in Architectural Acoustics
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110 Eighth Street
Troy, New York 12180, USA
- K. Ellington Scott is currently a doctoral candidate in architectural acoustics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, focusing on small-room acoustics, spatial audio technologies, and acoustic simulation. He holds dual bachelor’s degrees in physics and jazz performance from Oberlin College & Conservatory, Oberlin, Ohio, and a master’s in architectural acoustics from Rensselaer. He is the 2022 recipient of the Leo and Gabriella Beranek Scholarship in Architectural Acoustics and Noise Control, 2020 James West Fellow, and the current Acoustical Society of America Student Council representative for the Technical Committee on Architectural Acoustics.
Andrew Morrison
Department of Natural Sciences
Joliet Junior College
1215 Houbolt Road
Joliet, Illinois 60431, USA
Andrew Morrison received his PhD in physics from Northern Illinois University, DeKalb. He has taught physics since 2011 at Joliet Junior College, the country’s oldest two-year college, located in Joliet, Illinois, just outside Chicago. His research focus has been on the acoustics of percussion instruments, especially the Caribbean steelpan. He served as chair of the Technical Committee on Musical Acoustics for the Acoustical Society of America from 2014 to 2019 and as a member of the Acoustical Society of America Executive Council from 2019 to 2022.
Immersive Wave Experimentation and The Matrix
Jan van Manen
Department of Earth Sciences
Institute of Geophysics
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich)
8092 Zurich, Switzerland
Dirk-Jan van Manen has an MSc in geophysics from Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands, and a PhD in geophysics from the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom. After his Marie Curie Industrial Fellowship at Schlumberger, he worked in their R&D department for eight years as a geophysicist and research manager. Since 2014, he has been a senior researcher and lecturer at ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland. He is a recipient of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) J. Clarence Karcher Award (2008) and the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE) Arie van Weelden Award (2007) and a corecipient of the ENI New Frontiers of Hydrocarbons Award (2015). He currently leads the research at the Centre for Immersive Wave Experimentation, ETH Zurich.
Johan Robertsson
Department of Earth Sciences
Institute of Geophysics
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich)
8092 Zürich, Switzerland
Johan Robertsson has an MSc from Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, and a PhD from Rice University, Houston, Texas. After two years as a postdoc at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zürich), Zurich, Switzerland, he joined Schlumberger in 1996. In his last assignment, he was the research director and scientific advisor at Schlumberger Cambridge Research. Since 2012, he has been a professor at ETH Zurich where he is the chair of applied geophysics. He is a corecipient of an ENI award (2015), a European Research Council (ERC) advanced grant (2016), the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE) Conrad Schlumberger Award (2016), and the EAGE Guido Bonarelli Award (2020). In 2020, he was a Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) honorary lecturer. He is currently head of the Department of Earth Sciences at ETH Zürich.
Reflected Sound: Friend or Foe?
Pavel Zahorik
Department of Otolaryngology and Communicative Disorders and
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Heuser Hearing Institute
University of Louisville
111 E. Kentucky Street
Louisville, Kentucky 40203, USA
Pavel Zahorik is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA), an associate editor in the psychological acoustics technical area for The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, and a member of the ASA Psychological and Physiological Acoustics Technical Committee. He served as general meeting chair for the 177th meeting of the ASA in Louisville, Kentucky, and he currently holds the Heuser Hearing Research Endowed Chair Professorship at the University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky. He has studied human perception and performance in sound-reflective environments for over 25 years.
Matthew Neal
Department of Otolaryngology and Communicative Disorders
Heuser Hearing Institute
University of Louisville
111 E. Kentucky Street
Louisville, Kentucky 40203, USA
Matthew Neal is a research scientist at the University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky. He received his PhD in acoustics from Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, in 2019. His dissertation focused on virtual acoustic techniques to study concert hall preference, and he took measurements in over 20 concert halls in the United States and Europe. He was the 2017 recipient of the Leo and Gabriella Beranek Scholarship from the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) and served as an ASA Student Council representative from 2017 to 2019. Currently, he is working on virtual acoustic techniques for hearing aid and audiology applications.