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Volume 12 | Issue 1, Spring 2016


From the President and the Executive Director
From the Web Office Manager

Featured Articles

The Invention and Evolution of the Piano – Nicholas Giordano
The Evolution of Mammalian Sound Localization – Henry E. Heffner and Rickye S. Heffner
Preventing Occupational Hearing Loss— Time for a Paradigm Shift – William J. Murphy
Walter H. Munk: Seventy-Five Years of Exploring the Seas – Robert C. Spindel and Peter F. Worcester
Infrasound from Tornados: Theory, Measurement, and Prospects for Their Use in Early Warning Systems – Carrick Talmadge and Roger Waxler

Departments

Book Announcement from ASA Press:

ASAPress/Springer: Treatise on Acoustics – E.F.F. Chladni (Translated by Robert T. Beyer)
Technical Committee Report: Physical Acoustics – Joseph (Josh) Gladden
News from the Acoustical Society Foundation – Carl J. Rosenberg

Obituaries:

Leif Bjørnø (1937–2015)
Karl Uno Ingard (1921-2014)


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Volume 12 | Issue 2, Summer 2016


From the Editor
From the Executive Director
From the Editors of JASA-EL and POMA

Featured Articles

Designing Active Learning Environments – John R. Buck, Kathleen E. Wage and Jill K. Nelson
Violin AcousticsColin E. Gough
Acoustics of Regionally Accented Speech Ewa Jacewicz and Robert A. Fox
Regeneration of Auditory Hair Cells: A Potential Treatment for Hearing Loss on the Horizon – Rebecca M. Lewis, Edwin W Rubel and Jennifer S. Stone

Departments

Technical Committee Report: Psychological and Physiological Acoustics – Andrew J. Oxenham
News from the Acoustical Society FoundationCarl J. Rosenberg

Book Announcements from ASA Press:

Worship Space Acoustics: 3 Decades of Design – D.T. Bradley, E.E. Ryherd, L.M. Ronsse (Eds.)
Acoustics of Musical Instruments – A. Chaigne, J. Kergomard

Obituaries:

George Elias Ioup (1939-2016)
Norman C. Pickering (1916–2015)
Roelof J. Ritsma (1925-2015)
Ewart Wetherill (1928–2015)

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Volume 12 | Issue 3, Fall 2016


From the Editor
From the President

Featured Articles

Against All Odds: Commercial Sound Recording and Reproduction in Analog Times – by George Brock-Nannestad
Smart People Behaving Foolishly: Lessons from a Career in Scientific Research – by Grace A. Clark
Acoustic Metamaterials – by Michael R. Haberman and Andrew N. Norris
Underwater Acoustics: A Brief Historical Overview Through World War II – by Thomas G. Muir and David L. Bradley
Residential Quietude, the Top Luxury Requirement – by Bonnie Schnitta

Departments

Technical Committee Report: Structural Acoustics and Vibration – Robert M. Koch and Christina J. Naify
News from the Acoustical Society Foundation – Carl J. Rosenberg

Book Announcements from ASA Press:

Bat Bioacoustics – M.B. Fenton, A.D. Grinnell, A.N. Popper, R.R. Fay (Eds.)

Book Review

Foundations of Statistical Energy Analysis in Vibroacoustics
A. Le Bot   Review by Rudolph Martinez 

Obituaries:

Louis C. Sutherland | 1926-2016


Volume 12 | Issue 4, Winter 2016


From the Editor
From the Education and Outreach Coordinator

Featured Articles

Sound and Marine Seismic Surveys – by Robert C. Gisiner
James Clerk Maxwell and the Physics of Sound – by Philip L. Marston
The Acoustics of Brass Musical Instruments – by Thomas R. Moore
Highway Traffic Noise – by Judith L. Rochat and Darlene Reiter
A History of Speech Production Research – by Maureen Stone and Christine H. Shadle

Departments

Technical Committee Report: Biomedical Acoustics – by Nathan McDannold

ASA News

News from the Acoustical Society FoundationCarl J. Rosenberg
Engaging Early Career Acousticians in the Acoustical Society of America – by Tessa Bent

Book Announcements from ASA Press:

Hearing Aids  Editors: G. R. Popelka, B. C. J. Moore, R. R. Fay, A. N. Popper (Eds.)

Obituaries:

Leo Leroy Beranek (1914-2016)
Edwin L. Carstensen (1919-2016)
Donald C. Teas (1927-2016)

Book Review

American Luthier, Carleen Hutchins —   The Art & Science of the Violin – Author  Quincy Whitney