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Hawaii at Manoa. She was a postdoc- toral fellow at the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology (2003–2004) before joining the College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences at Oregon State University, where she is currently an associate professor of biological oceanography. Her scientific articles have appeared in such journals as Nature, Marine Biology, and the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. In 2005, the Office of Naval Research rec- ognized Benoit-Bird with one of its Young Investigator Awards and a year later, the White House honored her with the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. She received the R. Bruce Lindsay Award of the Acoustical Society of America in 2009 for contributions to marine eco- logical acoustics
Benoit-Bird studies how different marine species from zooplankton to whales relate to each other in marine environments and throughout time. Her wide-ranging research includes projects on forage fish assemblages in the Bering Sea, schooling of pelagic fish, jumbo squid in the Gulf of California, predation effects on zoo- plankton, foraging of dusky dolphins and sperm whale diets. Much of her work utilizes sophisticated acoustic monitoring that allows her to track, for example, the balletic movements of for- aging spinner dolphins at night when the use of cameras and lighting would be intrusive. She also creates her own digital representations of the data, and often free-hands her own scientific illustrations. Some of Benoit-Bird’s most recent research has focused on the importance of thin layers of plank- ton that may range over miles of the ocean, but are only a couple of feet thick. Benoit-Bird and her colleagues concluded that these unusual assem- blages are important to the feeding behavior of anchovies and sardines, helping drive the marine food web.
Ji-qing Wang named Honorary Fellow
Professor Ji-qing Wang (AKA Chi- ching Wong) received an Honorary Fellowship from Hong Kong Institute of Acoustics for his excellent contribu- tions in Acoustics at their Annual
Ji-qing Wang (r)
General Meeting on March 18, 2010. Tom Ho, Chairman of HKIOA also presented a silver memorial plate to Prof. Wang at that occasion. Prof. Wang was invited to give a lecture on “Acoustics of Tradtional Chinese Theatre Buildings” at the meeting.
Jiqing Wang is a Professor of Acoustics, Institute of Acoustics, School of Science (1981-present), and was also once the Director of Graduate Program on Architectural Science, School of Architecture and Urban Planning (1985-2002), Tongji University, Shanghai, China. He is a Fellow of Acoustical Society of China and a Fellow of Acoustical Society of America. He has served as the Chairman of the National Building Science Committee (1996-2000), President of the Acoustical Society of Shanghai (1987-1991), executive mem- ber of the Acoustical Society of China (1988-1998), technical member of the Acoustic Standardization Committee of China since 1980, and editor-in- chief for the Chinese Journal of Technical Acoustics (1990-2004). He was the author and co-author of five books on architectural acoustics in Chinese, and published over 130 papers. He has also delivered several plenary, keynotes, invited and profes- sional lectures worldwide.
Jan D. Achenbach receives von Karman Medal
Jan D. Achenbach, Walter P. Murphy Professor and Distinguished
McCormick School Professor at Northwestern University has been awarded the 2010 Theodore von Karman Medal of the Engineering Mechanics Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers for his out- standing contributions in theory and analysis of waves in solids, elastody- namics, acoustic microscopy, and dynamic fracture of materials, compos- ite systems, and structures. The Theodore von Karman Medal recog- nizes distinguished achievements in engineering mechanics that are applica- ble to any branch of civil engineering.
Professor Achenbach has been a worldwide leader in the general area of waves in elastic solids for a period of over forty-five years. He has con-
Jan D. Achenbach
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