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team aboard the Research Vessel Knorr operated by MIT Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. The experi- ment was conducted off the eastern coast of the United States and it provid- ed high quality data on ocean bottom acoustic scattering.
Jorge Quijano is a student member of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) and a member of the Organizing Committee for the Portland ASA meet- ing to be held in May 2009. He was recently selected Outstanding ECE Ph.D. student for 2008.
Martin Pollack
Martin Pollack presents ASME Invited Lecture
Martin Pollack, Corporate Scientist at Applied Physical Sciences Corp. in Groton, Connecticut, presented the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) 2008 Rayleigh Lecture at the NoiseCon 2008/ASME Noise Control and Acoustic Division Conference in Dearborn, MI in July 2008. The Raleigh Lecturers are selected from among those who have made pioneering contributions to the sciences and applica- tions of noise control and acoustics.
At Applied Physical Sciences Corp., Dr. Pollack has been responsible for developing advanced methods for predicting the acoustic performance of motors and actuators. He is also a member of the Participating Faculty at Union Graduate College, a member of the Acoustical Society of America, and a fellow of the ASME.
Erica Ryherd Oleg Godin
Erica Ryherd receives ASHRAE award
Erica E. Ryherd, Assistant Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology, received a 2008 New Faces of Engineering Award from the National Engineer Week Foundation. She was one of five engineers nominated by the American Society for Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers. The New Faces of Engineering program highlights the interesting and unique work of young engineers and the resulting impact on society. Young engineers two to five years out of school are the focus of this recogni- tion program.
Erica Ryherd received a Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska. She was a postdoctoral researcher at the Sahlgrenska Academy of Medicine in Gothenburg, Sweden and joined the Georgia Tech faculty in 2007. She received the ASA F. V. Hunt Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Acoustics (2006- 07), the Robert Bradford Newman Medal (2002), and the Institute of Noise Control Engineering Martin Hirschorn IAC Prize (2001).
Dr. Ryherd is a member of the ASA and has served on the ASA Student Council. She is faculty advisor, with Karim Sabra, to the ASA’s Georgia Tech Student Chapter. Most recently, she was the Technical Committee on Noise rep- resentative to the Technical Program Organizing Meeting for ASA’s Fall 2008 meeting.
Oleg Godin receives award from the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
Oleg Godin, a CIRES Senior Research Scientist with ASAP (Advanced
Sensor Application Program) Group at the Physical Science Division of the Earth System
Research Laboratory (NOAA/ESRL) was named recipient of an Outstanding Performance Award by the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES). CIRES’ Outstanding Performance Awards program was estab- lished to recognize exceptional contribu- tions by its members.
Dr. Godin is an authority on the theory of wave propagation in inhomo- geneous and moving media. In recent years, he achieved a number of scientif- ic accomplishments, which demon- strate his initiative, resourcefulness and creativity. He developed a theory of the so called "tsunami shadows," i.e., changes in ocean surface roughness induced by tsunami waves, and pro- posed to use this phenomenon for tsunami detection from space. In 2006- 2007, the theory has been confirmed by analyses of satellite imagery. He also discovered the phenomenon of anom- alous transparency of water-air inter- face. The phenomenon completely changes the outlook on the possibility of acoustic communication through the water-air interface and has impor- tant geophysical, biological, and national security implications.
With Dr. David R. Palmer of NOAA/AOML, Dr. Godin compiled and edited a 1200-page multi-author book, History of Russian Underwater Acoustics. This book brings to the Western reader a wealth of informa- tion, which remained classified or oth- erwise unavailable. In order to com- memorate his late mentor and out-
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