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Chris Harrison (l) and Colin English (r)
Chris Harrison began research at the Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge in 1968 depth sounding the Antarctic Ice Sheet by airborne radar. Between 1973 and 1978 he worked in underwater acoustics at Admiralty Research Laboratory, Teddington, London and Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC on long range reverberation and 3D propa- gation. Then he spent 20 years in consultancy developing propagation, noise, and sonar performance models (INSIGHT, CANARY, DINAMO). In 1999 he joined NATO Undersea Research Centre (formerly SACLANTCEN) where he has worked on various experimental techniques for extracting seabed properties from ambient noise. He has taken part in reverberation experiments and produced analytical reverbera- tion models for complex environments and a numerical mul- tistaic sonar performance model (SUPREMO).
Dr. Harrison is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) and is a member of the ASA Technical Committee on Underwater Acoustics.
Research Centre in Italy, was awarded the Institute of Acoustics’ premier award, the Rayleigh Medal, for his pioneer- ing work, which has spanned four decades, resulting in gen- uine innovations that have challenged how we look at existing concepts in underwater acoustics. The presentation was made by Colin English, President of the Institute of Acoustics at the Institute’s recent Spring Conference on Widening Horizons in Acoustics which was held at Reading University.
The Rayleigh Medal is awarded without regard to age to persons of undoubted renown for outstanding contributions to acoustics. It is normally presented to a UK acoustician in even numbered years and an overseas acoustician in odd numbered years. The medal is named after John William Strutt, Third Baron Rayleigh (1842-1919), a very versatile physicist who con- ducted both experimental and theoretical research in virtually every branch of the subject. A graduate, fellow and eventually Chancellor of Cambridge University, he was a fellow and pres- ident of the Royal Society. His book The Theory of Sound remains a landmark text in the development of acoustics.
Kevin Macan-Lind, Chief Executive of the Institute of Acoustics, found some inter- esting reading material at the European Acoustics Association booth at Acoustics’08 Paris.
2008
25–28 August 25–29 August
8–12 September 9–11 September
10–12 September 15–17 September 22–26 September
1st International Conference on Water Side Security, Lyngby, Denmark \[www.wss2008.org\] 10th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC 10), Sapporo, Japan \[icmpc10.typepad.jp\] International Symposium on Underwater Reverberation and Clutter, Lerici, Italy \[isurc2008.org\]
6th International Symposium on Ultrasonic Doppler Methods for Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Engineering, Prague, Czech Republic \[isud6.fsv.cvut.cz\]
Autumn Meeting of the Acoustical Society of Japan, Fukuoka, Japan \[ww.asj.gr.jp/index- en.html\]
International Conference on Noise and Vibration Engineering (ISMA2008), Leuven, Belgium \[www.isma-isaac.be\] INTERSPEECH 2008-10th ICSLP, Brisbane, Australia \[www.interspeech2008.org\]
3–5 October 6–8 October 14–15 October
21–22 October 21–23 October
21–24 October 26–29 October 27–31 October 30–31 October
7th International Conference on Auditorium Acoustics, Oslo, Norway \[ioa.org.uk\] Acoustics Week in Canada, Vancouver, B.C., Canada \[www.caa-aca.ca/vancouver2008\] Underwater Noise Measurement, Impact and Mitigation, Southampton, UK \[www.ioa.org.uk/ viewupcoming.asp\] Institute of Acoustics (UK) Autumn Conference 2008, Oxford, UK \[Wet:ioa.org.uk\] International Conference on Low Frequency Noise and Vibration, Tokyo, Japan \[www.lowerfrequency 2008.org\]
Acústica 2008, Coimbra, Portugal \[www.spacustica.pt\]
Inter-noise 2008, Shanghai, China \[www.internoise 2008.org\]
XX Session of the Russian Acoustical Society, Moscow, Russia \[rao.ankin.ru\]
Autumn Conference of the Swiss Acoustical Society, Lansanne, Switzerland \[www.sga- ssa.ch\]
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