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Douglas Cato
Defence Force and Secretary's Environment and Heritage Award for his exceptional research on manage- ment of acoustic disturbance that has led the Royal Australian Navy’s mitiga- tion strategies to be internationally rec- ognized as among the world's best.
Dr. Cato’s research and advice has enabled the Australian Navy to con- tinue its vital training activities at sea without significantly impacting on the marine environment. His work on “sounds in the ocean” spans several decades, and includes significant con- tributions to understanding of marine mammal acoustics, the effects of noise and their use of sound for communi- cation. Starting out as a scientist with the Royal Australian Navy, Dr. Cato moved across to Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO when Defence laboratories were amal- gamated in the 1970s, but he has been working in the underwater acoustics field since the mid-1960s.
ASA members named Fellows of the Audio Engineering Society
The Audio Engineering Society (AES) presented its Fellowship award to members of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) at its 125th Convention in October 2008. The Fellowship Award is given to a member who had rendered conspicuous service or is rec- ognized to have made a valuable con- tribution to the advancement in or dis- semination of knowledge of audio engineering or in the promotion of its application in practice.
Prof. Ing. Angelo Farina, Full Professor of Environmental Technical Physics at the Industrial Engineering Department of the University of Parma, was cited “for advancement in impulse response and distortion meas- urements.”
Angelo Farina received the “Laurea” degree in Civil Engineering in 1982 and a Ph.D in Technical Physics in 1987, both from the University of Bologna. He has been an Assistant Professor at the University of Bologna since 1 November 1986 and at the University of Parma since 1 March 1992. Associated profes- sor in Environmental Technical Physics since November 1998, and Full Professor since may 2005, now teaching Applied Acoustics.
Angelo Farina is a Full Member of the Audio Engineering Society, the Acoustical Society of America and the Italian Acoustics Association. He is author of more 240 scientific papers, and of three software tools for acousti- cal simulations and measurements: Ramsete, Aurora and Disia.
Peter Mapp, principal of Peter Mapp Associates, a specialist Acoustic Consultancy based in Colchester, England, was cited “for work on sound reinforcement and speech intelligibili- ty.” Mr. Mapp holds an Honours degree in Applied Physics and a Masters
Angelo Farina
degree in Acoustics.
He is the author of the Audio
System Designer, an acoustic and elec- tro-acoustics reference book as well being a co author / contributor to 7 other reference books and has authored over 100 papers and articles concerning acoustics, sound systems design and speech intelligibility. He was the first UK recipient of the Institute of Acoustics Peter Barnett Memorial Award in recognition of his extensive work and research in the fields of Electroacoustics and Speech Intelligibility and in 2005 he was elect- ed a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America in recognition of his work on speech intelligibility.
Peter Mapp
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