Lending an Ear in the Courtroom- Forensic Acoustics Forensic acoustics deals with acquisition, analysis, and evaluation of audio recordings to be used as evidence in an official legal...
Welcome to the third installment of “The World Through Sound,” the Acoustics Today web series that shows how understanding just a few concepts in acoustics can change the way you see the world around you. Last time we considered frequency and how the relationship...
Welcome to the second installment of “The World Through Sound,” the Acoustics Today web series that shows how understanding just a few concepts in acoustics can change the way you see the world around you. Last time, we considered sound speed, and how sound speed...
Welcome to the first installment of “The World Through Sound.” In this series of monthly articles on the Acoustics Today web site, we will look at interesting phenomena that you might not have noticed and show how these concepts relate to acoustics, sometimes in...
Book Review - Review of Air-Coupled Transduction for Nondestructive Testing and Evaluation- Marcel C. Remillieux, Brian E. Anderson, T. J. Ulrich, Pierre-Yves Le Bas, Michael R. Haberman, and Jinying...
Exploring Our Sonic Environment Through Soundscape Research and Theory – Bennett M. Brooks, Brigitte Schulte-Fortkamp, Kay S. Voigt and Alex U. Case<br...
The variability of sound propagation in the atmosphere has actually long been recognized. King (1919; see also the account by Beyer [1999]) refers to the “…capricious behavior of sound-waves propagated in the open atmosphere [which] has been attributed to the...
The Acoustical Society of America honors Dr. Per V. Brüel, a leader in acoustics and acoustic instrumentation, who passed away on April 2 2015, just after his 100th birthday, March 6, 2015. For more than 75 years Dr. Brüel has been in the forefront of acoustic...
ASA News: • Noisy Planet – Melissa McGowan • Student Activities at ASA in Indianapolis – Chris Jasinski • Acoustical Society Foundation Fund – Carl J. Rosenberg ASANews
ASA Fellow William (Bill) Murphy, Captain in the U.S. Public Health Service, is the 2015 recipient of the Outstanding Hearing Conservationist Award from the National Hearing Conservation Association. This award recognizes Bill’s outstanding contributions to research...
ASA members Blake Wilson and Graeme M Clark, along with their colleagues Erwin Hochmair, Ingeborg J. Hochmair-Desoyer, and Michael M. Merzenich, are the recipient of the 2015 Fritz J. and Dolores H. Russ Prize from the National Academy of Engineering. This highly...
A recent publication in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (JASA) caught the attention of several major news outlets this past Tuesday. From Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Killer Whales Learn to Communicate Like Dolphins Killer...
PASS at the Summit: Report of the 2014 Physical Acoustics Summer School Joseph R. Gladden and George Atkins National Center for Physical Acoustics, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS Kent L. Gee and Tracianne B. Neilsen Department of Physics and Astronomy, Brigham...
ASA fellow Timothy G. Leighton has been awarded Fellowship of the Royal Society, the national academy of sciences for the UK and the Commonwealth. He has also recently been awarded the 2014 Rayleigh Gold Medal of the UK Institute of Acoustics, the IoA’s highest...
