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International News
Walter G. Mayer
Georgetown University Washington, DC 20057
Aaron Thode awarded A. B. Wood Medal
Dr. Aaron Thode has been awarded the Institute of Acoustics’ prestigious A.B. Wood Medal for his innova- tive, interdisciplinary research in ocean and marine mammal acoustics. The A. B. Wood Medal and prize is awarded to research
acousticians, usually under the age of 35 for distinguished contributions to the application of underwater acoustics. The medal and a certificate were presented by Colin English, President of the Institute of Acoustics at the Institute’s Fourth International Conference on Bio- Acoustics, which took place from 10-12 April at Loughborough University.
On receiving his medal, Dr. Aaron Thode said, “I would like to sincerely thank the Institute of Acoustics for this award, which recognizes those scientists who, like countless sailors in the past, have been enchanted by the sounds of the sea.”
Dr. Thode has established himself as an independent and innovative researcher in ocean acoustics. He has studied at Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is currently an Associate Research Scientist at the Marine Physical Laboratory, Scripps Institution of Oceanography. He received B.S. and M.S. degrees from Stanford University, and a Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego-Scripps Institution of Oceanography. His current research interests include advanced acoustic signal processing, marine mammal acoustics, and geoacoustic imag- ing, inversion, and tomography.
Aaron Thode is a member of the Acoustical Society of America, the Society of Marine Mammalogy, and the American Geophysical Union.
Albert Beaumont Wood was well known for the many contributions he made to the science of underwater acoustics and for the help he gave to younger colleagues. The medal was instituted after his death by his many friends on both sides of the Atlantic and was administered by the Institute of Physics until the formation of the Institute of Acoustics in 1974. The award is made annually, in even numbered years to a person from Europe and in odd num- bered years to someone from the USA/Canada.
International Meetings Calendar
2007
6-10 August
27-31 August 28-31 August 2–7 September
9–12 September
9-12 September 10-13 September 17-19 September 18-19 September
19-21September
20-22 September 24-28September
27-29 September 3-5 October
9-12 October 17-18 October
25-26 October 29-30 November 6-9 December
16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS2007), Saarbrucken, Germany [www.icphs2007.de]
Interspeech 2007, Antwerp, Belgium [www.interspeech 2007.org]
Inter-Noise 2007, Istanbul, Turkey [www.internoise2007.org.tr]
19th International Congress on Acoustics (ICA2007), Madrid, Spain [SEA, Serrano 144, 28006 Madrid, Spain; www.ica2007madrid.org] ICA Satellite Symposium on Musical Acoustics (ISMA2007), Barcelona, Spain [SEA, Serrano 144, 28006 Madrid, Spain; www.ica2007madrid.org]
ICA Satellite Symposium on Room Acoustics (ISRA2007), Sevilla, Spain [www.isra2007.org] 54th Open Seminar on Acoustics (OSA2007), Przemysl, Poland [www.univ.rzeszow.pl/osa2007/] Third International Symposium on Fan Noise, Lyon, France [www.fannoise.org] International Conference on Detection and Classification of Underwater Targets, Edinburgh, UK [ioa.org.uk] AutumnMeetingoftheAcousticalSocietyof Japan, Kofu, Japan [Fax: 81 3 5256 1022; www.asj.gr.jp/index-en.html]
Wind Turbine Noise 2007, Lyon, France [www.windturbinenoise2007.org]
XIX Sessions of the Russian Acoustical Society, Nizhny, Novgorod, Russia [www.akin.ru]
3rd Congress of the Alps Adria Acoustical Association, Graz, Austria [www.alpsadriaacoustics.org]
Pacific Rim Underwater Acoustics Conference, Vancouver, Canada [http://pruac2.apl.washington.edu/index.html] 2007 Canadian Acoustic Conference, Montreal, Quebec, Canada [caa-aca.ca] Institute of Acoustics Autumn Conference 2007, Oxford, UK [www.ioa.org.uk/vieupcoming.asp]
Autumn Meeting of the Swiss Acoustical Society, Bern, Switzerland [www.sga-ssa.ch] Reproduced Sound 23. Hall of Sound for Live Events, The Sage, Gateshead [www.ioa.org.uk] International Symposium on Sonochemistry and Sono-processing (ISSS2007), [www.j- sonochem.org/ISSS2007]
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