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International News
Walter G. Mayer
Georgetown University Washington, DC 20057
Meterological Society’s President’s Prize. He is also a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, a life member of the Oceanography Society, a member of the American Geophysical Union and the Canadian Oceanographic and Meteorological Society.
The Royal Society is the world’s oldest scientific academy in continuous existence, and has been at the forefront of enquiry and discovery since its foun- dation in 1660. The backbone of the Society is its Fellowship of the most eminent scientists of the day, elected by peer review for life and entitled to use FRS after their name. According to the Society’s statutes, candidates for elec- tion to the Fellowship must have made “a substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge, including mathematics, engineering science and medical science.” There are currently more than 60 Nobel Laureates among the Society’s approxi- mately 1400 Fellows and Foreign Members.
Matti Karjalainen awarded Silver Medal by the Audio Engineering Society
Matti Karjalainen, Professor in the Laboratory of Acoustics and Audio Signal Processing at the Helsinki University of Technology,
was awarded a Silver Medal by the Audio Engineering Society (AES) at the AES Pro Audio Expo & Convention held in May 2006. He received the award “for outstanding scientific contributions to the audio industry in acoustics, auralization, digital signal processing, and synthe- sis. The AES Silver Medal is given in recognition of outstanding develop- ment or achievement in the field of audio engineering.
Professor Karjalainen earned M.Sc. (1980) and Ph.D. (1978) degrees in electrical engineering from Tampere University of Technology. His publications include 35 articles in international peer reviewed journals and over 200 conference presenta- tions. Research interests include: programming environments for digi- tal signal processing, applications of neural networks in speech, audio, and acoustics, modeling of spatial hearing and auralization, among others. He is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Acoustical Society of America, Audio Engineering Society, and the European Acoustics Association, among others.
Ann Dowling made a Dame in the Queen’s New Year Honours
Ann Dowling, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Cambridge, was named a Dame (DBE) in England’s Queen Elizabeth II New Year Honours for 2007. A DBE is the female equivalent of a knighthood; the title “Dame” is used for women and “Sir” for men.
According to the Cabinet Office Press Release, “The New Year Honours List reflects and pays tribute to out- standing achievement and service...to reward those who work and serve at the sharp end—people who have really changed things, or who have given out- standing service to others in difficult situations.”
David Farmer
David Farmer named Fellow of The Royal Society
Professor David Malcolm Farmer, Dean of the Graduate School of Oceanography at the University of Rhode Island, has been named a Fellow of The Royal Society. Prior to his appointment as Dean he was an oceanographer at the Institute of Ocean Sciences in Sidney, British Columbia, Canada. Together with his colleagues and graduate students he seeks new insights on ocean processes through innovative measurement and analysis. In upper ocean physics his interests include surface waves and internal waves, wave breaking, near surface cir- culation and the processes contributing to vertical transport of heat, mass and momentum; in coastal waters, he stud- ies stratified flows over topography, exchange flows, tidal fronts and mix- ing. He has a particular interest in the application of acoustical techniques to ocean research and has explored their use in topics ranging from the meas- urement of ocean surface bubbles to the fracturing of sea ice.
David Farmer is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America. He is a recipient of the Rosenstiel Award for Marine Science, The Oceanography Society’s Walter Munk Award and The Canadian Oceanographic and
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Matti Karjalainen