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Finally, we note that extending a straight line based on two data points forecasts the next joint meeting in the year 2017. Nominations for a site are now open.AT
References
1 Recipients of best student paper awards, www.acosoc.org/student/reports/reports.html
2 Byron Harrison, “2008 Student Design Competition,” Acoustics Today 4, 36 (2008).
Fig. 15. President Jean Kergomard (SFA) (r) discussing plans with Manell Zakharia (l)
Photo credit: Figure 2 by Aude Rohr Figures 4-15 by Charles Schmid
Charles E. Schmid was select- ed to be the first executive director of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) in 1990. In that capacity he has been instrumental in arrang- ing many international meet- ings that the ASA has held with the EAA, the Acoustical Society of Japan, the member societies for the first Pan-
American/Ibero-American meeting, and the International Congress on Acoustics held in Seattle in 1998. Before becoming Executive Director of the ASA he performed research in under- water acoustics as a Fellow of Honeywell Marine Systems in Seattle WA (1966-1990) and served as ASA’s 1985/86 Congressional Science and Engineering Fellow in Washington D.C. He holds a Bachelor’s degree from Cornell University, a Masters degree from the University of Connecticut, and a Ph.D. from the University of Washington, all in Electrical Engineering. Charles has served on the American Institute of Physics (AIP) Governing Board for 18 years, and is currently a board member of the International Commission for Acoustics. He is a Fellow of the ASA and received the Distinguished Service Citation at the Paris meeting.
Manell E. Zakharia has been active in the sonar area for more than 30 years with 346 publications and reports, supervised 17 Ph.D. and 31 Master the- ses, and 64 research contracts. In 1991, he founded the Laboratoire d’Acoustique, Systèmes Signaux et SOnar (LASS- SO/CPE Lyon), and was its head from 1991 to December 2000. In 2001, he joined the French Naval Academy in Brittany. He chaired the French
Acoustical Society (SFA) from 1992 to 1996 and contributed actively to the foundation of the EAA which he directed from 1996 to 1999. He founded and co-chaired the French Conference on Acoustics (1990), co-founded the European Conference on Underwater Acoustics (ecua), and has partici- pated to more than 50 Conference Committees. His research work and interest are related to wideband sonar systems: bot- tom imaging, sub-bottom imaging and characterization, syn- thetic aperture sonar, surface acoustic waves, scattering and target recognition, time-frequency analysis and low frequency shallow water propagation and reverberation. Manell Zakharia is a member of the SFA, a Fellow of the ASA and a Senior Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He served as a co-chair of Acoustics’08 Paris.
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