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J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 120 ͑3͒, September 20060001-4966/2006/120͑3͒/1133/20/$22.50 © 2006 Acoustical Society of America 1133 1134 J. Acoust. Soc. Am., Vol. 120, No. 3, September 2006 Annual Reports of Technical Committees Award in Animal Bioacoustics for her paper “ production patterns from humpback in a high latitude foraging area.” In Providence, we ͑See October issue for additional report͒ had two student paper award winners, Charlotte Kotas ͑Georgia Institute of Technology͒ for her paper “Are acoustically induced flows relevant in fish Acoustical Oceanography hearing?” and Anthony Petrites ͑Brown University͒ for his paper “Echolo- Fall 2005 Meeting (Minneapolis, MN). The Technical Committee on cating big brown bats shorten interpulse intervals when flying in high-clutter Acoustical Oceanography ͑AO͒ sponsored two special sessions: ͑1͒ “Inver- environments.” Lee Miller ͑University of Southern Denmark͒ and Bertel sion Using Ambient Sources,” organized by Peter Gerstoft ͑Marine Møhl ͑Aarhus University͒ were both elevated to Fellow status. Physical Laboratory, Scripps͒; and ͑2͒ “Ocean Ecosystem Measurements,” AB sponsored or cosponsored three special sessions at the Minneapo- cosponsored by Animal Bioacoustics ͑AB͒ and organized by Whit Au ͑Ha- lis meeting. These include Cognition in the Acoustic Behavior of Animals waii Inst. of Marine Biology͒ and Van Holliday ͑BAE Systems͒. The Best organized by Caroline Delong and cosponsored with Psychological and Student Paper Awards in Acoustical Oceanography went to Michael Morley Physiological ͑P&P͒; Ocean Ecosystem Measurements organized from the University of Victoria ͑First Prize winner͒ for his paper: “Estimat- by and Vance Holliday with Acoustical Oceanography ͑AO͒ as ing geoacoustic properties of marine sediments by matched field inversion the primary sponsor; Temporal Patterns of by Marine Mammals using ship noise as a sound source,” and Julie Oswald from Scripps ͑Second organized by Jeanette Thomas; and Weighting for Animal Spe- Prize winner͒, for her paper: “New tool for real-time acoustic species iden- cies organized by Larry Pater and Ann Bowles and cosponsored by P&P and tification of delphinid whistles.” Martin Siderius ͑HLS, San Diego͒ repre- Standards. A full session of contributed papers, chaired by Michael Fer- sented AO at the Technical Program Organizing Meeting. ragamo, was also held. The TC meeting attracted over 30 attendees, with Spring 2006 Meeting (Providence, RI). The 2006 Medwin Prize in most discussion centering around issues arising from the session on Fre- Acoustical Oceanography was awarded to John Horne of the University of quency Weighting and Associated Standards topics. the School of Aquatic and Fishery Science, Seattle, “for re- The Providence meeting was very heavily attended, with so many AB search on the acoustic identification of fish species and applications to fish- sessions that overlap in scheduling could not be avoided. Joshua Schwartz eries resource management.” Dr. Horne presented a highly entertaining organized a day-long session on Acoustic Interactions in Animal Groups that Medwin Prize Lecture entitled “Acoustic species identification: When biol- attracted many non-ASA members. Along with AO and Underwater Acous- ogy collides with physics.” AO sponsored two special sessions, and contrib- tics ͑UW͒, AB cosponsored the Joe Blue Memorial Session on Shallow uted a paper in the Hot Topics in Acoustics special session. Ralph Stephen Water and Marine Animal Acoustics, chaired by Ed Gerstein and George ͑Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution͒ organized a special session entitled Frisk. Arthur Popper and Richard Fay organized and cochaired a session on “Ultra-Low and Low Frequency Marine Seismo-Acoustics.” David Bradley Effects of Anthropogenic Sounds on Fishes, also cosponsored with AO and ͑Penn State͒ and Whit Au ͑Hawaii Inst. of Marine Biology͒ organized a UW. Jim Simmons organized a session on Mechanisms of Biosonar, cospon- special session jointly with Animal Bioacoustics entitled “Exploitation of sored with SP and EA. Whit Au and David Bradley organized and cochaired Sound by Marine Mammals.” Karim Sabra of the Marine Physical Labora- a day-long session on Exploitation of Sound by Marine Mammals, cospon- tory presented the AO Hot Topics lecture: “Extracting coherent information sored by AO. Neil Todd organized a session titled Is Hearing All Cochlear, from cross correlations of random wave fields.” Matthias Meyer ͑Free Uni- cosponsored by P&P. In addition, there were three contributed paper ses- versity of Brussels͒ won first prize in the competition for the Best Student sions, chaired by Peter Scheifele, John Buck, and Jennifer Miksis-Olds. AB Paper Award in Acoustical Oceanography for his paper entitled “Adjoint organized a special art/soundscape performance by the local artist China approach to the physical characterization of a shallow water environment,” Blue that explored urban bioacoustics. This performance was also heavily ͑ ͒ and Jason Holmes Boston University was awarded second prize for his attended. Approximately 50 people participated in the ABTC meeting, paper entitled “Low frequency sound reflection and conversion to Darcy- where discussion centered on publication issues. type diffusion waves at bottom interfaces with marine sediments.” Andone Planning continues for the Second International Workshop on Acoustic ͑ ͒ ͑ Lavery Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and Mohsen Badiey Uni- Communication by Animals, to be held in Oregon in summer 2008, under ͒ versity of Delaware represented AO at the Technical Program Organizing the leadership of David Mellinger. Meeting. AO also arranged for the speaker for the Tutorial Lecture at the AB owes a great debt to our members for their efforts in making our Providence Meeting. The lecture, “The 2004 Sumatra earthquake and tsu- meetings successful and for their participation in the overall affairs of our nami: Multidisciplinary lessons from an ocean monster,” was given by geo- Society. Whitlow Au finished his year as Vice President-Elect and now will physicist Emil Okal of Northwestern University. serve as Vice President. Whit and Jim Simmons continue as section editors Information on these and related matters is available on the new for AB for JASA, and Cynthia Moss continues as AB editor for JASA Ex- Acoustical Oceanography Technical Committee website, for which we are press Letters. Ann Bowles serves as the AB representative to ASACOS and indebted to Kate Brooks of the Centre for Earth and Ocean Research at the Dave Mellinger continues to keep our website ͑http://cetus.pmel.noaa.gov/ University of Victoria. It can be reached through the ASA web page by Bioacoustics.html͒ up to date. Michael Ferragamo volunteered as our TPOM clicking on “Committees.” Please e-mail any material for or comments on for the Minneapolis meeting, while John Buck and Andrea Simmons shared the web site directly to [email protected]. Technical Program Organizing Meeting duties for the Providence meeting. I want to close by thanking all the volunteers who have contributed to John, Jim Simmons, Peter Scheifele and Andrea Simmons all participated on the success of the activities of the AO Technical Committee during this past the Local Organizing Committee for this meeting. We also acknowledge year. All of the AO members were greatly saddened by the passing of Hank Mardi Hastings ͑Executive Council͒, Charles Greene ͑Medals and Awards͒, Medwin earlier this year. Hank was one of the founding members of the AO and Darlene Ketten ͑Membership͒ for the completion of their outstanding technical committee, and his advice and encouragement have been impor- service on these important committees. We congratulate Marla Holt, our tant to all of us. outgoing student representative, on the award of her Ph.D. Alison Stimpert N. ROSS CHAPMAN will be replacing Marla on the Student Council. The terms of the following Chair ABTC members ended at the Providence meeting: Ann Bowles, John Buck, Animal Bioacoustics Charles Greene, Mardi Hastings, Van Holliday, David Mann and Sam Ridg- way. Their participation and assistance on the TC are much appreciated. We The Animal Bioacoustics ͑AB͒ Technical Committee ͑TC͒ had a busy welcome our new ABTC members, Robert Dooling, Dave Mellinger, Arthur and productive year. Members of the TC as well as Acoustical Society of Popper and Annemarie Surlykke, and we are grateful to Whit Au, Christo- America ͑ASA͒ members citing animal bioacoustics as either a primary or a pher Clark, and William Cummings for agreeing to continue for another secondary interest were well represented at both the fall ͑Minneapolis͒ and term. spring ͑Providence͒ meetings. Finally, this is my last report as ABTC chair. I thank AB members and We take special pride in acknowledging our most recent award recipi- members of the Technical Council for their support and encouragement ents. At the Minneapolis meeting, James A. Simmons of Brown University during my term. It has been an honor to work with all of you. My successor received the Silver Medal in Animal Bioacoustics ‘‘for his contributions to is Richard Fay ͑Loyola University͒. understanding bat echolocation.’’Also at this meeting, Alison Stimpert, from ANDREA M. SIMMONS the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, received the Best Student Paper Chair 2003–2006

J. Acoust. Soc. Am., Vol. 120, No. 3, September 2006 1135 Biomedical /Bioresponse to Vibration of Washington was elected to succeed him. All are looking forward to a full meeting of at least six special sessions with our Japanese colleagues in The Biomedical Ultrasound/Bioresponse to Vibration Technical Com- Honolulu in the Fall of 2006 and to a special session on bioresponse to mittee ͑BBTC͒ has been very active for the period of this report—Fall 2005 vibration at the Salt Lake meeting in Spring 2007. ͑Minneapolis͒ and Spring 2006 ͑Providence͒ meetings. Meetings have been MICHAEL R. BAILEY well attended with many special sessions, awards, and Fellowship promo- Chair tions. Special sessions ͑and organizers͒ at the Minneapolis meeting included: Topical Meeting on Imaging and Control of High Intensity Focused Engineering Acoustics Ultrasound-induced Lesions ͑Emad Ebbini͒, Medical Applications of Time ͑ ͒ Reversal Acoustics ͑Armen Sarvazyan͒, and Acoustic Radiation Force The Engineering Acoustics Technical Committee EATC met at each Methods for Medical Imaging and Tissue Evaluation ͑Mostafa Fatemi͒. of the two meetings of the Society, Minneapolis, MN in the Fall, and Provi- Contributed sessions ͑and chairs͒ included: Ultrasound Contrast Agents dence, RI in the Spring. ͑John Allen͒, Transducers and Imaging ͑Robert McGough͒. A sampling of In Minneapolis, the EATC sponsored one special session and one ses- topics covered was surgery through the skull with ultrasound, a 40 MHz sion of contributed papers. The title of the special session and organizer in-situ array that has improved eye imaging, and preliminary investigations of tis- was: An ANSI standard for measuring directivity of hearing aids in 3-dimensions—Steve Thompson. In addition, EATC cosponsored several sue engineering of vocal-fold tissue. other sessions with the various technical committees. The Committee offers Two other people put special effort in on behalf of the BBTC. Carr many thanks to Steve Thompson, who served as the representative to the Everbach gave the hot topics presentation on ultrasound therapy and its Minneapolis Technical Program Organizing Meeting. The EATC met in integration with ultrasonic imaging, and presented a well-attended tutorial Minneapolis on the evening of Tuesday, October 18. lecture on diagnostic imaging in biomedical ultrasound. Emad Ebbini served In Providence, the EATC sponsored two special sessions and one ses- as the Technical Program Organizing Meeting representative. sion of contributed papers. The special session topics and organizers were as For several years, the BBTC has tried to emphasize the spring meet- follows: ing. Special sessions ͑and organizers͒ at the Providence meeting included Brown Tadpoles and Red Herrings: Boiling, Inertial Cavitation and Nonlin- • Joe Blue Memorial Session II: Transduction, Linear and Nonlinear— earity in High Intensity Focused Ultrasound Lesion Formation ͑Glynn Holt Thomas G. Muir and Joseph F. Zalesak and Peter Kaczkowski͒, Memorial Session for Frederic Lizzi ͑Jeff Ketterling • Joe Blue Memorial Session III: Transducers—David A. Brown and Ed- and Ernest Feleppa͒ Sensing and Imaging Using Light and Sound ͑Todd mund R. Gerstein. Murray and Ron Roy͒, Targeted Contrast Agents ͑Tyrone Porter and Christy Holland͒, and Celebration Session for Edwin Carstensen ͑Diane Dalecki, The Committee offers many thanks to David A. Brown, Jeffrey E. Lawrence Crum, Leon Frizzell, and Fred Kremkau͒. The contributed session Boisvert, and Thomas R. Howarth who served as EATC representatives to was Imaging and Wave Propagation ͑Yuri Pishchalnikov͒. The tadpole ses- the Providence TPOM. sion was an extended debate and discussion to explain how thermal necrosis The EATC met in Providence on the evening of Tuesday, June 6. of tissue ͑e.g., of cancer tumors͒ occurs, can be accelerated, is monitored, At the Providence meeting, James E. West, a longstanding member of and may be controlled. Talks highlighted Dr. Lizzi’s diverse and influential the Engineering Acoustics Technical Committee received the Society’s Gold career by discussing for example, the use of ultrasound to differentiate can- Medal award. His citation reads ‘‘for the development of polymer electret cerous from healthy tissue, development of a therapeutic ultrasound system transducers, and for leadership in acoustics and the Society.’’ A well de- used clinically to treat the eye, and adding ultrasound to enhance the deliv- served congratulations to Jim! ery of drugs. Targeted agents, primarily tiny stabilized bubbles, are used to The recipients of the Best Student Paper awards for Engineering deliver drugs to a tissue region where ultrasound then activates the drug’s Acoustics were: in Minneapolis—Miguel A. Horta, “Sonic gas analyzer for release. Dr. Carstensen has led many in the ASA to help establish safe microbiological metabolic measurements,” ͑3aEA9͒, and in Providence— guidelines for diagnostic ultrasound, has brought nonlinear acoustics to the Aaron M. Kyle, “Wave propagation in fluid-filled tubes: measurements and field of medical ultrasound, and established bioeffects, particularly near gas model predictions,” ͑4pEA8͒. pockets in the body. Robin Cleveland and Glynn Holt were the TPOM Prior to the Providence meeting, Dennis Jones was elected as the new representatives. Chair of EATC. Also, many thanks to our past student representative, Alex- Several members of the BBTC received awards at the Providence andra Loubeau, who was an integral member of the EATC. Her replacement meeting. Lawrence Crum received the Student Council Mentoring Award. will be Doug Wilcox, also from Pennsylvania State University. Purnima Ratilal received the R. Bruce Lindsay Award “for contributions to The outgoing Chair of EATC would like to thank all the people who the theory of wave propagation and scattering through a waveguide, and to have worked to make the activities of EATC successful this year, and to the acoustic remote sensing of marine life.” Some of this work has been invite all interested parties to attend EATC meetings to be held at future applied to medical imaging. Mathias Fink received the Helmholtz-Rayleigh meetings of the Society. Interdisciplinary Silver Medal “for contributions to the understanding of KIM C. BENJAMIN time reversal acoustics.” His work has led to many new medical imaging Chair 2003–2006 and therapy techniques, including a really gee-whiz way of supersonically generating shear waves used to image the stiffness of a tumor. Jamie Collin of Oxford University and Matthew Urban, working at the Mayo Clinic, were the BBTC Student Paper Award winners in a competition that included 20 During 2005–2006 the Technical Committee on Musical Acoustics excellent presentations by students. At both meetings, several people from ͑TCMU͒ was chaired by James Beauchamp, although Peter L. Hoekje sub- the BBTC were promoted to Fellow. stituted for him at the Providence meeting in June 2006. Representatives to On the whole, the BBTC is growing and membership has been very ASA committees were as follows: James P. Cottingham, Membership; Uwe active. Technical committee meetings have been attended by over 50 people Hansen, Medals and Awards; Ian M. Lindevald, ASACOS; and James W. and long lists of special sessions and invited speakers are developed each Beauchamp, Technical Council. Associate Editors were Diana Deutsch and time. Shira Broschat continues to maintain the BBTC website ͑http:// Neville H. Fletcher. Technical Program Organizing Meeting ͑TPOM͒ repre- moab.eecs.wsu.edu/ϳshira/asa/bubv.html͒. As evidenced by the list of sentatives were Ian M. Lindevald ͑Minneapolis͒ and Courtney B. Burroughs awards and Fellows, Lawrence Crum, as representative to the Medals and ͑Providence͒. Those appointed or reappointed for 2006–2009 terms as mem- Awards Committee, and Carr Everbach, who succeeded Tony Brammer as bers of TCMU are Rolf Bader, Xavier Boutillon, Jonas Braasch, Murray D. representative to the Membership Committee, have kept busy. This year, Campbell, Rene E. Causse, Antoine J. Chaigne, Neville H. Fletcher, Nicho- Paul Barbone took over for Jeff Ketterling as the ASA representative to the las J. Giordano, J. M. Harrison, William M. Hartmann, William L. Martens, Biomedical Imaging Research Opportunities Workshop ͑BIROW͒. Neil James M. Pyne, Daniel A. Russell, Punita G. Singh, Sten O. Ternstrom, Paul Owen finished his term as the BBTC representative to the ASA Student A. Wheeler, and Shigeru Yoshikawa. Also, two TCMU members were re- Council at the Minneapolis meeting, and Michael Canney of the University cently elected Fellows of the ASA: Anders G. Askenfelt, a musical acousti-

1136 J. Acoust. Soc. Am., Vol. 120, No. 3, September 2006 cian with the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, and James Cot- Violin Family Association. The convention was held in Ithaca, New York in tingham, previous TCMU Chair and professor of physics at Coe College, November 2005 with Carleen Hutchins, inventor of the string octet family, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. former TCMU member, and 1981 recipient of ASA’s Silver Medal in Mu- TCMU presented four special sessions at the Minneapolis meeting in sical Acoustics, as the ASA contact person. October, 2005: “Patents in Musical Acoustics,” organized and cochaired by JAMES W. BEAUCHAMP George Brock-Nannestand and George Augspurger; “Nonlinear Vibrations Chair of Strings,” organized and chaired by Antoine Chaigne; “Acoustics of Choir Singing I & II” ͑cosponsored by the Technical Committee on Architectural Acoustics͒, organized and cochaired by Sten Ternstrom, Thomas Rossing, and Anthony Hoover; and “Music Information Retrieval,” organized and Noise chaired by James Beauchamp. In addition, Ian Lindevald chaired the session The Fall 2005 meeting of the ASA in Minneapolis was a special oc- “General Topics in Musical Acoustics,” which consisted of contributed pa- casion for the Technical Committee on Noise: This meeting was held jointly pers not related to the special sessions. The “Acoustics of Choir Singing” with the NOISE-CON 2005 conference, organized by the Institute of Noise session was split into morning and afternoon sessions, and the afternoon Control Engineering ͑INCE͒. Many members of TC-Noise are also members session was followed by a panel discussion and choir concert at the Central of INCE. It was a time to showcase all aspects of noise and its control. Lutheran Church in Minneapolis. The panel, consisting of the session orga- Forty-one special sessions included both Noise and NOISE-CON as spon- nizers and Dr. John Ferguson of St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN, discussed sors. TC-Noise took the lead on five of these special sessions. These were “Acoustical issues relevant to choral singing.” This was followed by a ser- “Special Session in Honor of William W. Lang” ͑organized by Paul Schomer vice especially designed for the Acoustical Society with “Reflections” given and George Maling͒, “Workshop on Methods for Community Noise and by Pastor Bruce Benson and a choir concert by the St. Olaf Cantorei di- Noise Policy” ͑Brigitte Schulte-Fortkamp and Bennett Brooks͒, “Specifying rected from the organ by John Ferguson. The concert, a definite highlight of Uncertainties in Acoustic Measurements, I and II” ͑William Murphy and the Minneapolis meeting for TCMU, featured “Magnificat,” an original Ralph Muehleisen͒, and “Hospital Interior ” ͑Ilene Busch- composition by Dr. Ferguson. Vishniac and James West͒. Mike Stinson was the Noise representative at the Three special sessions were presented at the Providence meeting in Technical Program Organizing Meeting. June, 2006: “Scaling of Musical Instrument Families,” organized and The Spring 2006 Providence ASA meeting was not as noise-centric but chaired by George Bissinger; “Finite Element and Finite Difference Meth- was still host to an interesting array of special sessions. TC-Noise was lead ods in Musical Acoustics I & II,” organized and chaired by Rolf Bader and organizer for “Audio-Visual Design in Soundscapes, I and II” ͑Brigitte Uwe Hansen; and “Human-Computer Interfaces,” organized and chaired by Schulte-Fortkamp and Bennett Brooks͒, “Essential Acoustical Curriculum Jonas Braasch and William Martens. Also, Peter Hoekje chaired “Topics in for Noise Control Techniques for Engineers, Industrial Hygienists, and Ar- Musical Acoustics,” consisting of contributed papers. In addition, TCMU chitects” ͑William Murphy͒, “New Loudness Standard” ͑Rhona Hellman͒, was a cosponsor of the special sessions “Surround Sound Essentials I & II,” “Fifty Years of Speech Privacy, I and II” ͑Greg Tocci͒, and “Heating, Ven- organized and chaired by Alexander Case and Anthony Hoover of the tilation and Air-Conditioning Noise Control” ͑Dan Raichel and Bennett TCAA; and “Composed Spaces” and “Composed Spaces Loudspeaker Con- Brooks͒. Nancy Timmerman was the Noise representative at the Technical cert I & II,” both organized and chaired by Alexander Case. Program Organizing Meeting. TCMU continues to promote student involvement in musical acous- On the classroom acoustics front, the ASA has been having construc- tics. Since the Vancouver ͑May 2005͒ meeting Brian Monson has been tive discussions with the Director of the Modular Building Institute. The TCMU’s representative to the Student Council, and he also has been chair of Collaborative for High Performance Schools ͑CHPS͒ has been convinced of that group. Also, we have continued to sponsor ASA Best Student Paper the need for good acoustics in schools—they are promoting ANSI S12.60 Awards in Musical Acoustics. There were six entries for the competition at and their actions are being held as an example for schools elsewhere in the the Minneapolis meeting and nine entries for the Providence meeting. The US. ASA President Bill Yost issued a position statement stressing that sound winners were Harald Jers ͑Germany͒, first place at Minneapolis for “Multi- amplification should not routinely be used in the classroom. track analysis of amateur and professional choirs;” Jyri Pakarinen ͑Finland͒, The contributions of several Noise people were recognized at these second place at Minneapolis for “Modeling of tension-modulated strings two meetings. For the Minneapolis meeting, we had two winners of the using finite difference and digital waveguide techniques;” Andrey Ricardo Noise Young Presenter award, Courtney McGinnes for her talk “An envi- da Silva ͑Canada͒, first place at Providence for “Benchmarking the lattice ronmental and economical solution to sound absorption using straw” and Boltzmann method for the determination of acoustic impedance of axisym- Steven Ryherd for his talk “Acoustical prediction methods for heating, ven- metric waveguides;” and Jacob Skubal ͑U.S.͒, second place at Providence tilating, and air-conditioning ͑HVAC͒ systems.” In Providence, the Noise for “Tuning parameters of a Nigerian slit gong.” Young Presenter award went to Kent Gee for his talk “Analysis of high- Recently, new subject classifications ͑PACS͒ for Musical Acoustics amplitude jet noise using nonlinearity indicators.” We have a new Fellow of replaced ones, which had been in place for many years. The new classifica- the ASA, Samir Gerges. And in Providence, James West was presented with tions incorporate suggestions provided by a subcommittee of TCMU. These the ASA Gold Medal “for development of polymer electret transducers, and are scales, intonation, vibrato, composition; music perception and cognition; for leadership in acoustics and the Society.” bowed stringed instruments; woodwinds; brass instruments and other lip- The efforts of several volunteers should be recognized. Nancy Tim- vibrated instruments; plucked string instruments; drums; bells, gongs, cym- merman is the Noise representative on the Medals & Awards Committee, bals, mallet percussion, and similar instruments; free reed instruments; pi- John Erdreich is our representative on the Membership Committee, and anos and other struck string instruments; pipe organs; reed woodwind Richard Peppin is our representative on the ASA Committee on Standards. instruments; flutes and similar wind instruments; singing; musical perfor- Connor Duke is our Student Council representative and, following the prac- mance, training, and analysis; electroacoustic and electronic instruments; tice initiated a few meetings ago, the secretary for the TC-Noise meetings. electronic and computer music; automatic music recognition, classification, ͑Connor was unable to attend Providence due to his recent marriage; we and information retrieval; instrumentation and measurement methods for thank Matt Green for ably substituting.͒ The Noise web page ͑http:// musical acoustics; analysis, synthesis, and processing of musical sounds. www.nonoise.org/quietnet/tcn/͒ is maintained by Les Blomberg. Ralph Mue- A good number of papers on musical acoustics topics were published hleisen is coordinator for the Noise Young Presenter Awards. Serving as in JASA during 2005–2006. There were papers on such topics as timbre Associate Editor for JASA Express Letters is Mike Stinson and as JASA spaces, wind instrument and pipe organ analysis/synthesis, Associate Editors are Keith Attenborough, Kenneth Cunefare, Vladimir and modeling, vocal and choral acoustics, meter induction, music perfor- Ostashev, and Brigitte Schulte-Fortkamp. mance expression, and analysis of ethnic instruments and singing. Also, My term as Chair of TC-Noise is complete. It has been a fun three James Beauchamp recently published an article on brass acoustics in Acous- years, in large part because of the dedication, cooperation, and good cheer tics Today ͑April, 2006͒, ASA’s popular acoustics magazine. that exists within the Technical Committee on Noise. I am pleased to wel- TCMU sometimes supports extra-society events. Last year, ASA, in come our incoming Chair, Brigitte Schulte-Fortkamp. response to a request from James Cottingham, the previous TCMU Chair, MICHAEL R. STINSON cosponsored “Octet 2005,” the First International Convention of the New Chair 2003–2006

J. Acoust. Soc. Am., Vol. 120, No. 3, September 2006 1137 Physical Acoustics val Undersea Warfare Center, Georgia Tech, US Naval Academy, Boston University, Woods Hole, National Center for Physical Acoustics, and U. of It is truly an honor and a privilege for me to have the opportunity to Del., along with talks by the organizers; ͑d͒ Biomedical Ultrasound/ serve the Physical Acoustics ͑PA͒ community as your new Chair of the Bioresponse to Vibration: “Celebration Session for Edwin Carstensen, Parts Physical Acoustics Technical Committee of the ASA. Tom Matula, our past I and II ͑co-organizers Crum, Dalecki, Kremkau, and Frizzell͒, highlighted Chair ͑from 2003–2005͒, has provided the committee with excellent leader- HIFU therapy, sound-induced lung hemorrhage, Carstensen’s nonlinear con- ship, blending past success with new initiatives in the long-range planning tributions, medical imaging, and thermal effects. Part II included bubble of special sessions among other activities. It is the hope of the new chair to phenomenon in cavitation and lithotripsy. provide good leadership, move forward with new initiatives, and most im- ͑ ͒ portantly to get PA committee members, along with other Society members, PA had four other sessions, e “Outdoor Sound Propagation,” cover- involved. ing propagation under cloud cover, over irregular terrain, by turbulence, To quote Tom from his 2004–2005 Annual Report, “We’ve been rede- nonlinear and magnetic sound in the atmosphere, seismic pulses, blast ͑ ͒ fining ourselves over the past few years ¼ .” This is very evident at both the waves, aeroacoustics, and sound absorption on Mars; f “Nonlinear Acous- 150th Minneapolis and 151st Providence meetings. tics, Flow and Miscellaneous Topics,” involving material damage, elastody- While funding in sonoluminescence and thermoacoustics might have namic field resonances, interactions in elastic media, finite-amplitude and leveled, new avenues of interest are emerging in thermoacoustics, infra- thermal gradient effects, time reversal, oscillations of a bias-flow aperture, sound, nonlinear acoustics including ͑a͒ nonlinear techniques in biomedical flow around a porous screen, diffraction effects and transient evanescent ͑ ͒ ultrasonic imaging and therapy ͑along with acoustic radiation force meth- waves; g “Landmine Detection; Scattering Phenomena,” included aspects ods͒, ͑b͒ high intensity focused ultrasound ͑HIFU͒ and boiling cavitation, of linear and nonlinear acoustic detection, time reversal, and ultrasonic vi- and ͑c͒ nonlinear and time reversal techniques in acoustic-seismic landmine brometry, scattering problems included a wedge, a cylinder over an absorb- detection, atmospheric acoustics, and nanoacoustics. ing boundary, cluster of rigid rods, super-radiant modes in distorted hexago- The tutorial lectures “Diagnostic imaging in biomedical ultrasound,” nal clusters, caustics from backscattering and coherent backscattering; and ͑ ͒ by E. Carr Everbach ͑Minneapolis͒ and “The 2004 Sumatra earthquake and h “Thermoacoustics and Resonating Systems,” discussing the ultrasonic tsunami: Multidisciplinary lessons from an ocean monster,” by Emile Okal analog for a laser, time reversal focusing, periodic binary systems and band- ͑ ͑Providence͒ were excellent and highly attended. gap effects engineering, transmission through periodic arrays of hollow ͒ The Minneapolis ASA Meeting was held jointly with NOISE-CON cylinders, and bubbly media , particle history in fields, thin film resonators 2005. PA planned one large ͑two part͒ special session entitled: “Thermoa- as mass sensors, thermoacoustic topics ͑infrasonic engines, miniature cool- coustics: What Our Customers Want and Why They Want It,” organized by ers and hot wire anemometry temperature measurements͒. This session had David Gardner and cosponsored by Engineering Acoustics which featured papers from Belgium, France, Mexico and Spain. All said, the Minneapolis invited papers by Swift, Corey, Garrett ͑et al.͒, Spoor, Poese, Mozurkewich, and Providence meetings were big successes for PA. Backhaus, and Kotsubo. There was standing room only for all of the 16 total Technical Program Organizing Meeting representatives were Joseph papers. Physical Acoustics and Biomedical Ultrasound/Bioresponse to Vi- Turner, ͑Minneapolis͒ and Ron Roy, Tom Muir and Charles Thomas ͑Provi- bration had participation in Hot Topics in Acoustics. Carr Everbach spoke dence͒. Thank you all for a great job! At Minneapolis, Charlie Church and on biomedical ultrasonic therapy, imaging, and therapeutic applications of Paul Johnson became new fellows. Congratulations! High Intensity Focused Ultrasound. Thanks again, Carr. After Providence, Anthony Atchley became our new President and Physical Acoustics cosponsored two special sessions: ͑a͒ NOISE- Gilles A. Daigle our new President-Elect. Outstanding and congratulations! CON’s, “Advances in Military Jet Noise Modeling,” ͑co-organizers Sparrow Anthony and Gilles are flanked by our own PATC members Vic Sparrow and Downing͒ featuring nonlinear propagation; and ͑b͒ BB’s “Acoustic Ra- and Wayne Wright who serve on the Executive Council. diation Force Methods for Medical Imaging and Tissue Evaluation,” ͑orga- In Minneapolis Wheeler Howard passed the torch to Todd Hay, our nized by Fatemi͒ featuring Rudenko’s “Principles of radiation force,” and new student council rep. Thanks Wheeler and good luck to Todd. radiation pressure papers by Marston, Ostrovsky, and Silva. Other PA ses- It is time to acknowledge members of PA who volunteer their services sions were “Topics in Atmospheric Acoustics” and “Topics in Seismic on various committees: Robert Keolian who has served on the Medals and Acoustics.” “Atmospheric Acoustics” papers featured shock propagation, Awards Committee for over three years, will pass the baton to Tom Matula, volcanic , high altitude propagation, scattering, windscreen ef- who will officially start in Honolulu. Jim Sabatier was Robert’s predecessor fects, ground impedance, and phased-array antennas. The “Seismic Acous- and both have worked hard to do a great job for the Society. Steve Garrett ϩ tics” papers appeared to have roots going back to Sabatier’s research, Na- serves on the Membership Committee; Phil Marston serves on the Books tional Center for Physical Acoustics workshops, or his outreach and covered Committee, and Sameer Madanshetty serves on ASACOS. This year Mack impedance, signature human footsteps, soil and landmine nonlinearity, reso- Breazeale, Logan Hargrove, and James Miller reached 50 years of ASA nances, granular-plate interaction and acoustic vibrometry. service. Wow! Education in Acoustics had PA representation with Korman, Keolian, Other items: David Blackstock is extremely active in the Student and Loubeau’s “Acts of Sound”—Hands-on Workshop for High School Stu- Council and the program involving “Take a Student to Lunch.” Ron Roy’s dents,” and “Acoustics Demonstrations,” by Poese ͑demo apparatus work- tenure at ARLO is now over and Keith Wilson takes over as editor of JASA shop͒, Garrett, “Hey kid! Wanna build a loudspeaker?” and Korman and Express Letters. Ron also received the Eastman Fellowship. His one year Bond’s ͑landmine detection demo͒. sabbatical is in Oxford. The 2006 Physical Acoustics Summer School, PASS PA had two special sessions in Providence ͑with ϳ1400 registered͒. 2006, took place from 18–25 June 2006, at Sunrise Springs, La Cienega, Joseph Turner and Donna Hurley organized an excellent session entitled New Mexico. The program is jointly run by NCPA ͑Hank Bass͒ and Penn “Acoustic Microscopy at the Nanoscale,” with invited papers from Ger- State ͑Anthony Atchley͒, with strong ASA ties. many, Switzerland and Japan. The “Celebration of the Work of Brown Uni- The 4th Joint Meeting of the ASA and Acoustical Society of Japan versity” ͑organizers Letcher, Maris and Korman͒ featured Robert Beyer ͑ASJ͒ will take place in Honolulu, 28 November–2 December 2006. There ͑who received a standing ovation͒, Nyborg, Chick, Muir, Elder, Butler, Rog- are five excellent special sessions ͑see the most recent call for papers͒ that ers, Foote, Brown, among talks by the organizers. Works of Lindsay, Will- were planned during Tom Matula’s reign. Your new Chair has met with Dr. iams, Beyer, and Westervelt were admired. Yoîti Suzuki ͑current President of ASJ and the ASJ Chair of the Technical PA cosponsored the following special sessions: ͑a͒ Architectural Program͒ along with Dr. Hiroshi Sato ͑Secretary of the ASJ Technical Pro- Acoustics, Noise and Engineering Acoustics:” “Microperforated Acoustical gram Committee͒ in Minneapolis to develop a well thought out program Absorbing Materials,” co-organizers Nocke and Xiang; ͑b͒ Biomedical involving all the Technical Committees. Ultrasound/Bioresponse to Vibration and Signal Processing: “Sensing and Tom, I am grateful for all your help and guidance. Those are big shoes Imaging Light and Sound,” ͑co-organizers Roy and Murray͒; ͑c͒ Engineer- to fill. Thank you very much. You have been an inspiration to us all and an ing Acoustics: “Joe Blue Memorial Session II: Transduction, Linear and excellent Chair. Nonlinear,” ͑co-organizers Gerstein, Muir, and Zalesak͒, featuring Joe’s col- MURRAY S. KORMAN leagues from Office of Naval Research, Naval Sea Systems Command, Na- Chair

1138 J. Acoust. Soc. Am., Vol. 120, No. 3, September 2006 Psychological and Physiological Acoustics Douglas O’Shaughnessy. Christine Shadle is the newly appointed Associate Editor for Speech Production. Reflecting Psychological and Physiological’s ͑P&P’s͒ strategy of em- We are grateful for the help of our members this year: ͑1͒ Our paper phasizing participation at ASA’s spring meetings, the 150th Meeting of the sorters, who arranged the technical programs at meetings: Ben Munson and Acoustical Society of America—the fall meeting in Minneapolis—was Arlene Carney in Minneapolis; and Doug Whalen and Harriet Magen in sparsely attended by the members of P&P. P&P sponsored one session, and Providence and ͑2͒ Coordinator for student judging: Khalil Iskarous. We was a cosponsor on four special sessions. We thank Magda Wojtczak for also are very happy to welcome four new fellows to the ASA from the organizing the sessions for this meeting. Although P&P policy is to deem- speech communication TC: Peggy Nelson, Kenneth Grant, Carole Espy- phasize fall meetings, the meeting in Hawaii next fall will be something of Wilson, Shri Narayanan, an exception, due to it being a joint meeting with the Acoustical Society of The Klatt Award has been awarded to Rajka Smiljanic at the Univer- Japan. sity of Minnesota. The spring meeting in Providence was buzzing with activity. There were six sessions sponsored by P&P, one of which was cosponsored by the ASA Committee on Standards and by Noise. Of the six sessions, two were Student Activities special sessions. We extend our thanks to the organizers of the special ses- The Committee sponsored two student activities at each meeting in- sions: Sharon Kujawa and Lynne Marshall ͑Individual Susceptibility to cluding a competition with a cash award for best student presentation and an Noise-Induced Hearing Loss͒ and Frederick J. Gallun ͑Characterizing Au- evening reception. The evening reception, which is sponsored jointly with ditory Attention͒. P&P also contributed as the cosponsor of three additional other technical committees, is intended to allow students to meet more se- special sessions. We thank Laurie Heller for accomplishing the challenge of nior ASA members informally. The reception was well attended. The student organizing the P&P sessions for the Providence meeting. papers were judged by SCTC members and the winners were awarded $300 The P&P open meeting included an update of the Student Council for first prize and $200 for second prize. In Vancouver the first- and second- report by student representative Suzy Carr. Brenda Lonsbury-Martin in- place winners were Asaf Bacharach of Massachusetts Institute of Technol- formed the group about JASA Express Letters, the replacement for ARLO. ogy and Amanda Miller of Advanced Technological Research, Japan. In Most of the discussion in the open meeting centered on the relatively low Minneapolis the first and second place winners were Tarun Pruthi of the impact factor of JASA, the negative effect this is having on some members University of Maryland, and Byron Erath of Purdue University. In Provi- of the Society, and ways for trying to deal with this problem. The P&P dence, a student ice-breaker social was initiated and was very well received. Associate Editors provided an overview of their efforts, and encouraged the members of ASA to agree to review papers, and complete the reviews in a timely manner. We thank the P&P Associate Editors, Brenda L. Lonsbury- Special Sessions, Special Talks and Workshops Martin, William P. Shofner, John H. Grose, Gerald D. Kidd, Armin Kohl- Speech Communication has sponsored many interesting special ses- rausch, Robert A. Lutfi, and Andrew J. Oxenham, for their efforts on our sions during the past year. In Minneapolis Pat Keating organized a special behalf. We express our thanks to Lynne Marshall, Don Sinex, and Magda session “In honor of the 80th birthday of Peter Ladefoged,” who passed Wojtczak for organizing the ballot for election to the Technical Committee, away shortly thereafter. In Providence Yi Xu and Carlos Gussenhaven orga- and, thanks to members of the P&P community who so willingly added their nized a special session entitled “Phonetic Enhancement in Speech: Evidence names to the ballot. The newly elected members of the Technical Committee and Mechanisms.” are Sid Bacon, Qian-Jie Fu, Kim Schairer, Chris Shera, Ed Walsh, and MAUREEN L. STONE Beverly Wright. We thank our outgoing members, Michelle Hicks, Lynne Chair Marshall, Chris Plack, Don Sinex, and Magda Wojtczak. Two of P&Ps Associate Editors, Gerald D. Kidd and Armin Kohl- Structural Acoustics and Vibration rausch, completed successful terms this year. Their efforts on our behalf are greatly appreciated; the work of our associate editors is important but also Although structural acoustics and vibration play an important part in time consuming and difficult. Their willingness to contribute, and the con- many areas of acoustics and noise, many of those involved with the Acous- tributions of the other associate editors, is highly valued by the community. tical Society of America ͑ASA͒ through the Structural Acoustics and Vibra- Our two new Associate Editors are Rich Freyman and Ruth Litovsky. We tion Technical Committee ͑SAVTC͒ have been historically involved in re- also thank Joe Hall, III, our outgoing representative to the Medals and search for the US Navy. As Navy research funding in structural acoustics Awards Committee, and Les Bernstein, our outgoing representative to the has decreased, so has the activities of SAVTC in ASA. From July 2005 to Membership Committee. June 2006, there were two special technical sessions in the two ASA meet- The P&P Technical Initiatives continue unchanged. The initiatives in- ings, and 28 papers in structural acoustics published in JASA. During the clude travel support for invited speakers, student receptions, and homepage same period ten years ago, there were six special technical sessions at the maintenance. Suggestions for uses of funds, including innovations such as two ASA meetings and 63 structural acoustics papers published in JASA. workshops, satellite meetings, etc., are welcome ͑[email protected]͒. Although this indicates that structural acoustics and vibration remain active, ELIZABETH A. STRICKLAND it also implies that challenges remain if the level of activities of SAVTC in Chair ASA is to rise to the level it once enjoyed. During the year from July 2005 to June 2006, there was one new Speech Communication Fellow elected from the SAVTC, Greg McDaniel. Jerry Ginsberg was pre- sented the Trent-Crede award at the Minneapolis meeting in October 2005. The Speech Communication Technical Committee ͑SCTC͒ supports The two special technical sessions were Experimental Modal Analysis, or- the activities, meetings, publications, etc. for the largest technical area in the ganized by Jerry Ginsberg at the Minneapolis meeting, and Ultrasonic Society. This report covers the meetings in Minneapolis, MN, and Provi- Waveguides for Structural Monitoring, organized by Joel Garrelick at the dence, RI. The current members of the Committee are Jean Andruski, Providence meeting in June 2006. Two student paper awards were presented Norma Barroso, Patrice Beddor, Lynne Bernstein, Ocke-Schwen Bohn, Su- at each of the ASA meetings. In Minneapolis, Noah Schiller won first place zanne E. Boyce, Ann Bradlow, Dani Byrd, Roger Chan, Robert Fox, Alex- and Benjamin Doty, second place. In Providence, Michael Pedrick won first ander Francis, Bruce Gerratt, Kenneth Grant, Helen Hanson, Diane Kewley- place and Christopher Dudley, second place. Two Associate Editors for Port, Jody E. Kreiman, Anders Lofqvist, Andrew Lotto, Benjamin Munson, structural acoustics were appointed; David Feit and Linda Franzoni. There Terrence Nearey, Peggy Nelson, Douglas O’Shaughnessy, Dwayne Paschall, are now six JASA Associate Editors in structural acoustics. The TPOM Joseph Perkell, Astrid Schmidt-Nielsen, and Gary G. Weismer. Ex-officio representative for SAVTC for the Minneapolis meeting was Courtney Bur- members include Abeer Alwan ͑Membership Committee͒, Shrikanth Naray- roughs and for the Providence meeting, Jeff Boisvert. anan ͑ASACOS͒, Fredericka Bell-Bert ͑Medals and Awards Committee͒, Courtney Burroughs completed his three-year term as chair of the and Jennell Vick ͑Student Council͒. The continuing Associate Editors for SAVTC at the end of the Providence meeting. Sean Wu was elected as the speech production are Anders Lofqvist and Brad Story; for speech percep- new chair of SAVTC. tion they are Ann Bradlow, Kenneth Grant, Paul Iverson, Mitchell Sommers, COURTNEY B. BURROUGHS and Joan Sussman. The continuing Associate editor for Speech Processing is Chair 2003–2006

J. Acoust. Soc. Am., Vol. 120, No. 3, September 2006 1139 Underwater Acoustics 2007 4–8 June 153rd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, The year began with preparation for the Fall 2005 meeting in Minne- Salt Lake City, Utah ͓Acoustical Society of apolis, for which we thank Dave Dowling and Dezhang Chu for represent- America, Suite 1NO1, 2 Huntington Quadrangle, ing the Underwater Acoustics Technical Committee ͑UWTC͒ at the Techni- Melville, NY 11747-4502; Tel.: 516-576-2360; Fax: cal Program Organizing Meeting. In Minneapolis the UWTC sponsored 516-576-2377; E-mail: [email protected]; Web: http:// asa.aip.org͔. special sessions entitled “Head waves and interface waves,” organized by Peter Dahl, and “Sonar performance and signal processing in uncertain en- 27 Nov.–2 Dec. 154th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, New Orleans, Louisiana ͑note Tuesday through Sat- vironments” organized by Lisa Zurk and David Dowling. We are also urday͓͒Acoustical Society of America, Suite 1NO1, pleased to report that Henrik Schmidt received the Pioneers of Underwater 2 Huntington Quadrangle, Melville, NY 11747-4502; Acoustics Medal in Minneapolis and we congratulate UWTC members Tel.: 516-576-2360; Fax: 516-576-2377; ͔ Ralph Stephen and Dajun Tang on the occasion of their election to Fellow- E-mail: [email protected]; Web: http://asa.aip.org . ship in the ASA at the Minneapolis meeting and Jixun Zhou who was 2008 elected in Vancouver. 28 July–1 Aug. 9th International Congress on Noise as a Public ͑ As always, there was healthy number of papers submitted to the stu- Health Problem Quintennial meeting of ICBEN, the International Commission on Biological Effects of dent paper competition for the Minneapolis meeting under the auspices of Noise͒, Foxwoods Resort, Mashantucket, CT ͓Jerry the UWTC. The first prize went to Weichang Li ͑Massachusetts Institute of V. Tobias, ICBEN 9, Post Office Box 1609, Groton Technology͒ for the paper entitled: “Identification of rapidly time-varying CT 06340-1609, Tel.; 860-572-0680; Web: acoustic communication channels.” The second prize went to Jason Holmes www.icben.org. E-mail. [email protected]. ͑Boston University͒ for his paper entitled: “An autonomous underwater ve- hicle technique for in-situ waveguide characterization.” Finally, the period between the Minneapolis meeting and Providence Cumulative Indexes to the Journal of the meeting was marked by the sad passing in January of Prof. Hank Medwin, Acoustical Society of America a pioneer in underwater acoustics and the founder of our allied Technical Committee on Acoustical Oceanography. Ordering information: Orders must be paid by check or money order in The spring 2006 meeting in Providence had special significance for U.S. funds drawn on a U.S. bank or by Mastercard, Visa, or American Underwater Acoustics given the long standing involvement of local New Express credit cards. Send orders to Circulation and Fulfillment Division, England, and Navy institutions, in the field of underwater sound. A special American Institute of Physics, Suite 1NO1, 2 Huntington Quadrangle, thanks is given to Jim Miller ͑meeting chair͒ and Jim Lynch ͑technical Melville, NY 11747-4502; Tel.: 516-576-2270. Non-U.S. orders add $11 per chair͒, and to Kathleen Wage and Gopu Potty for representing the UWTC at index. the Technical Program Organizing Meeting. Some indexes are out of print as noted below. 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1140 J. Acoust. Soc. Am., Vol. 120, No. 3, September 2006 Members of Technical and Administrative Animal Bioacoustics Committees of the Acoustical Society Richard R. Fay, Chair to 2009 of America

The Technical and Administrative Committees listed below have been Term to 2009 appointed by the Executive Council. These appointments, with such changes Christopher W. Clark as may be made by the President from time to time, will be in effect until the William C. Cummings Spring meeting of the Society in 2007. Robert R. Dooling David K. Mellinger Arthur H. Popper Technical Committees 2006–2007 Annemarie Surlykke Acoustical Oceanography

Term to 2008 N. Ross Chapman, Chair to 2007 Whitlow W.L. Au Term to 2009 Kelly J. Benoit-Bird Mohsen Badiey W. Tecumseh Fitch Michael J. Buckingham Dorian S. Houser Dezhang Chu Lee A. Miller John A. Colosi Larry L. Pater Christian de Moustier Hiroshi Riquimaroux Stan E. Dosso Peter M. Scheifele Kenneth G. Foote James A. Simmons D. Vance Holliday Edward J. Walsh Andone C. Lavery Zoi-Heleni Michalopoulou Term to 2007 Jeffrey A. Nystuen Sheryl L. Coombs David R. Palmer Edmund R. Gerstein Simon D. Richards Seth S. Horowitz Martin Siderius Cynthia F. Moss Aaron M. Thode Jeannette A. Thomas

Term to 2008 Daniela Di Iorio Ex officio: Gerald L. D’Spain Gary J. Heald James A. Simmons, member of Medals and Awards Committee Jean-Pierre Hermand Andrea M. Simmons, member of Membership Committee David P. Knobles Ann E. Bowles, member of ASACOS Timothy G. Leighton Marla M. Holt, member of Student Council James H. Miller Daniel Rouseff Emmanuel K. Skarsoulis Lily M. Wang, Chair to 2007 Jerome A. Smith Dajun Tang Term to 2009 Term to 2007 Nils-Ake Andersson Kyle M. Becker C. Walter Beamer, IV Grant B. Deane Leo L. Beranek Christopher Feuillade Sergio Beristain Peter Gerstoft Jim X. Borzym Oleg A. Godin Erica E. Bowden John K. Horne David T. Bradley Bruce M. Howe David Braslau Anthony P. Lyons Todd L. Brooks Ralph A. Stephen Courtney B. Burroughs Kathleen E. Wage Paul T. Calamia Peter F. Worcester Alexander U. Case William J. Cavanaugh Ex officio: Dan Clayton James F. Lynch, member of Medals and Awards Committee Jessica S. Clements Mohsen Badiey, member of Membership Committee Elizabeth A. Cohen Anthony P. Lyons, member of ASACOS David A. Conant Lora J. Van Uffelen, member of Student Council Damian Doria John Erdreich

J. Acoust. Soc. Am., Vol. 120, No. 3, September 2006 1141 Robin S. Glosemeyer William Dohn Timothy E. Gulsrud Timothy J. Foulkes Byron W. Harrison Richard D. Godfrey Robert D. Hellweg Tyrone Hunter Murray R. Hodgson Clare M. Hurtgen Ian B. Hoffman J. Christopher Jaffe Jin Jeon Mendel Kleiner James A. Johnson Jeff P. Kwolkoski Jian Kiang Brad W. Lewis Bertram Y. Kinzey, Jr. Stephen J. Lind Mendel Kleiner David Lubman Alexis D. Kurtz Ralph T. Muehleisen Timothy W. Leishman Michael T. Nixon Jerry G. Lilly Boaz Rafaely Edward L. Logsdon Daniel R. Raichel Peter A. Mapp Jack E. Randorff David E. Marsh Jonathan Rathsam Gregory A. Miller H. Stanley Roller Hideo Miyazaki Steven R. Ryherd Matthew A. Nobile B. Schulte-Fortkamp Christian Nocke Noral D. Stewart Bruce C. Olson Michael Vorländer Cornelius H. Overweg Ning Xiang Richard J. Peppin Term to 2007 Stephen D. Pettyjohn Warren E. Blazier Scott D. Pfeiffer Joseph F. Bridger Norman H. Philipp Norm Broner James E. Phillips Bennett M. Brooks Joseph Pope Steven M. Brown Jens Holger Rindel Todd A. Busch Carl J. Rosenberg Richard H. Campbell Kenneth P. Roy F. M. del Solar Dorrego Hiroshi Sato Erin L. Dugan Melvin L. Saunders M. David Egan Ron Sauro Jesse J. Ehnert Paul D. Schomer Michael Ermann Kevin P. Shepherd Adam R. Foxwell Yasushi Shimizu Ronald R. Freiheit Gary W. Siebein Klaus Genuit Abigail E. Stefaniw Matthew V. Golden Christopher A. Storch Kenneth W. Good, Jr. Jason E. Summers Brad N. Gover Louis C. Sutherland Mark A. Holden Jiri Tichy K. Anthony Hoover Nancy S. Timmerman Jerald R. Hyde Brandon D. Tinianov David W. Kahn Gregory C. Tocci Martha M. Larson Rendell R. Torres Gary S. Madaras Alfred C.C. Warnock Benjamin E. Markham George P. Wilson Charles T. Moritz Ning Xiang David L. Moyer Edward T. Nykaza Paul B. Ostergaard Term to 2008 Dennis A. Paoletti Wolfgang Ahnert Stephen W. Payne Christopher N. Blair Benjamin C. Seep John S. Bradley Neil A. Shaw Christopher N. Brooks Ryan G. Sieler Angelo J. Campanella Rose Mary Su Quinsan Ciao Jeff D. Szymanski Robert C. Coffeen Richard H. Talaske Peter D’Antonio Michelle Vigeant Felicia M. Doggett

1142 J. Acoust. Soc. Am., Vol. 120, No. 3, September 2006 Ewart A. Wetherill Ex officio: George E. Winzer Lawrence A. Crum, member of the Medals and Awards Committee Michael R. Yantis E. Carr Everbach, member of the Membership Committee and member of ASACOS Neil R. Owen, member of Student Council Ex officio: Ewart A. Wetherill, member of Medals and Awards Gregory C. Tocci, member of Membership Committee Engineering Acoustics George E. Winzer, member of ASACOS Dennis F. Jones, Chair to 2009 Michelle C. Vigeant, member of Student Council Term to 2009 Biomedical Ultrasound/Bioresponse to Vibration Stanley L. Ehrlich Michael R. Bailey, Chair to 2008 Gary W. Elko Robert D. Finch Guillermo C. Gaunaurd Term to 2009 Thomas R. Howarth Emmanuel Bossy Dehua Huang Anthony J. Brammer Sung Hwan Ko Robin O. Cleveland Victor Nedzelnitsky Paul A. Dayton James M. Powers Mostafa Fatemi P. K. Raju Yuri A. Ilinskii Stephen C. Thompson Peter J. Kaczkowski James E. West Jeffrey A. Ketterling George S. K. Wong Vera A. Khokhlova Oliver D. Kripfgans James C. Lacefield Term to 2008 James A. McAteer Steven R. Baker Yuri A. Pishchalnikov David A. Brown Tyrone M. Porter Stephen C. Butler Robert D. Corsaro Stephen E. Forsythe Term to 2008 Brian H. Houston John S. Allen W. Jack Hughes Whitlow W.L. Au Robert M. Koch Paul E. Barbone L. Dwight Luker Charles C. Church Arnie L. Van Buren Gregory Clement Kenneth M. Walsh Floyd Dunn Daniel M. Warren E. Carr Everbach Joseph F. Zalesak Mark S. Hamilton Christy K. Holland R. Glynn Holt Term to 2007 Elisa E. Konofagou Mahlon D. Burkhard Subha Maruvada James Christoff Wesley L. Nyborg Fernando Garcia-Osuna James A. Simmons Charles S. Hayden Andrew J. Szeri Jan F. Lindberg Yushieh Ma Elizabeth A. McLaughlin Term to 2007 Alan Powell Constantin-C. Coussios Roger T. Richards Diane Dalecki Kenneth D. Rolt J. Brian Fowlkes Neil A. Shaw Kullervo H. Hynynen James F. Tressler T. Douglas Mast Thomas J. Matula Robert J. McGough Ex officio: Douglas L. Miller Mahlon D. Burkhard, member of Medals and Awards Committee and member of ASACOS Ronald A. Roy Thomas R. Howarth, member of Membership Committee Thomas J. Royston Alexandra Loubeau, member of Student Council Kendall R. Waters Pei Zhong

J. Acoust. Soc. Am., Vol. 120, No. 3, September 2006 1143 Musical Acoustics Noise James W. Beauchamp, Chair to 2008 Brigitte Schulte-Fortkamp, Chair to 2009

Term to 2009 Term to 2009 Rolf Bader Sergio Beristain Xavier Boutillon Susan B. Blaeser Jonas Braasch Erica E. Bowden Murray D. Campbell Bennett M. Brooks Rene E. Causse Ilene J. Busch-Vishniac Antoine J. Chaigne Angelo J. Campanella Neville H. Fletcher William J. Cavanaugh Nicholas J. Giordano Gilles A. Daigle J. M. Harrison Patricia Davies William M. Hartmann Damian J. Doria William L. Martens Connor R. Duke James M. Pyne Jesse J. Ehnert Daniel A. Russell Tony F. W. Embleton Punita G. Singh John Erdreich Sten O. Ternstrom David J. Evans Paul A. Wheeler Bradford N. Gover Shigeru Yoshikawa Robert D. Hellweg Tyrone Hunter William W. Lang Richard H. Lyon Term to 2008 Alan H. Marsh George A. Bissinger Ralph T. Muehleisen Annabel J. Cohen William J. Murphy James P. Cottingham Joseph Pope Diana Deutsch Daniel R. Raichel Neville H. Fletcher Kenneth P. Roy Roger J. Hansen Kevin P. Shepherd Uwe J. Hansen Scott D. Sommerfeldt Peter L. Hoekje Kerrie G. Standlee James H. Irwin George S.K. Wong Ian M. Lindevald Stephen E. McAdams Term to 2008 Gary P. Scavone Chris E. Waltham Elliott H. Berger Ann E. Bowles Frank H. Brittain Steven M. Brown Term to 2007 Mahlon D. Burkhard R. Dean Ayers Robert D. Collier Judith C. Brown Lawrence S. Finegold Courtney B. Burroughs Samir N. Y. Gerges John R. Buschert Richard D. Godfrey Thomas M. Huber Matthew V. Golden Bozena Kostek Murray R. Hodgson Barry Larkin Jerry G. Lilly Daniel O. Ludwigsen Stephen J. Lind Thomas D. Rossing David Lubman David B. Sharp George A. Luz Julius O. Smith Matthew A. Nobile William J. Strong Richard J. Peppin Robert A. Putnam Jack E. Randorff Stephen I. Roth Ex officio: Paul D. Schomer Uwe J. Hansen, member of Medals and Awards Committee Michelle E. Swearingen James P. Cottingham, member of Membership Committee Nancy S. Timmerman Ian M. Lindevald, member of ASACOS Brandon D. Tinianov Brian B. Monson, member of Student Council

1144 J. Acoust. Soc. Am., Vol. 120, No. 3, September 2006 Gregory C. Tocci Kenneth E. Gilbert Lily M. Wang Robert A. Hiller R. Glynn Holt Bart Lipkens Term to 2007 Thomas J. Matula Martin Alexander Ralph T. Muehleisen Brian E. Anderson Harry Simpson Keith Attenborough John S. Stroud John P. Barry Richard L. Weaver Leo L. Beranek Preston S. Wilson Arno S. Bommer James O. Buntin John C. Burgess Term to 2007 Jim R. Cummins David T. Blackstock Kenneth A. Cunefare David A. Brown Paul R. Donavan John A. Burkhardt Ronald R. Freiheit Kerry W. Commander Klaus Genuit Bruce C. Denardo Michael L. Gross Logan E. Hargrove David C. Haser D. Kent Lewis Gerald C. Lauchle Julian D. Maynard George C. Maling George Mozurkewich Thomas R. Norris Lev A. Ostrovsky John P. Seiler Andrea Prosperetti Noral D. Stewart Neil A. Shaw Louis C. Sutherland Victor W. Sparrow Jiri Tichy Richard Stern D. Keith Wilson Roger M. Waxler Ning Xiang Ex officio: Ex officio: Thomas J. Matula, member of Medals and Awards Committee Nancy S. Timmerman, member of Medals and Awards Committee Steven L. Garrett, member of Membership Committee John Erdreich, member of Membership Committee Sameer I. Madanshetty, member of ASACOS Richard J. Peppin, member of ASACOS Todd A. Hay, member of Student Council Connor R. Duke, member of Student Council Psychological and Physiological Acoustics Physical Acoustics Elizabeth A. Strickland, Chair to 2008 Murray S. Korman, Chair to 2008 Term to 2009 Term to 2009 Katherine H. Aerhart Anthony A. Atchley Amy R. Horwitz Henry E. Bass Glenis R. Long Yves H. Berthelot Enrique A. Lopez-Poveda James P. Chambers Robert S. Schlauch Charles C. Church Stanley E. Sheft Kenneth G. Foote Mark F. Hamilton Term to 2008 David I. Havelock Michael A. Akeroyd Philip L. Marston Alain de Cheveigne Peter H. Rogers Brent W. Edwards Ronald A. Roy John H. Grose James M. Sabatier Gerald D. Kidd, Jr. Philip S. Spoor Armin Kohlrausch Larry A. Wilen Brenda L. Lonsbury-Martin D. Keith Wilson William P. Shofner Evgenia A. Zabolotskaya Lynne A. Werner

Term to 2008 Term to 2007 Robert T. Beyer David A. Eddins Robin O. Cleveland Lawrence L. Feth Lawrence A. Crum

J. Acoust. Soc. Am., Vol. 120, No. 3, September 2006 1145 Hedwig E. Gockel Term to 2007 Jennifer Lentz Max Deffenbaugh Mario A. Ruggero Alireza A. Dibazar Gary W. Elko Alan W. Meyer Ex officio: Daniel J. Sinder William M. Hartmann, member of the Medals and Awards Committee David C. Swanson Lynne A. Werner, member of Membership Committee Robert C. Waag Brent W. Edwards, member of ASACOS Preston S. Wilson Suzanne P. Carr, member of Student Council Lixue Wu

Ex officio: Signal Processing in Acoustics Leon H. Sibul, member of Medals and Awards Committee David H. Chambers, Chair to 2009 David I. Havelock, member of Membership Committee Charles F. Gaumond, member of ASACOS Term to 2009 John H. Camin, member of Student Council James V. Candy William M. Carey Speech Communication Leon Cohen Maureen L. Stone, Chair to 2007 Geoffrey S. Edelson Stanley L. Ehrlich Brian Ferguson Paul J. Gendron Term to 2009 Peter Gerstoft Jean E. Andruski William M. Hartmann Lynne E. Bernstein Kevin D. Heaney Ocke-Schwen Bohn William S. Hodgkiss Suzanne E. Boyce Paul D. Hursky Ann R. Bradlow John M. Impagliazzo Bruce R. Gerratt Patrick J. Loughlin Kenneth W. Grant Jens M. Meyer Paul E. Iverson Hassan Namarvar Benjamin R. Munson Joe W. Posey Peggy B. Nelson James C. Preisig Mitchell S. Sommers Brian D. Rapids Brad H. Story Edmund J. Sullivan Joan E. Sussman

Term to 2008 Term to 2008 Frank A. Boyle Norma S. Barroso Joe A. Clark Fredericka Bell-Berti R. Lee Culver Ann R. Bradlow David J. Evans Dani M. Byrd David M. Fromm Roger W. Chan Howard A. Gaberson Alexander L. Francis David I. Havelock Kenneth W. Grant Jean-Pierre Hermand Anders Lofqvist George E. Ioup Terrance M. Nearey Juliette Ioup Douglas D. O’Shaughnessy Matti A. Karjalainen Joseph S. Perkell Sean K. Lehman Astrid Schmidt-Nielsen Lance L. Locey Joan E. Sussman Zoi-Heleni Michalopoulou Gary G. Weismer Brian B. Monson Joseph Pope Leon H. Sibul Randall W. Smith Term to 2007 Krykidos Tsiappoutas Patrice S. Beddor James E. West Melissa A. Epstein Gary R. Wilson Robert Allen Fox George S. K. Wong Helen M. Hanson Ning Xiang Diane Kewley-Port

1146 J. Acoust. Soc. Am., Vol. 120, No. 3, September 2006 Jody E. Kreiman Paul C. Hines Andrew J. Lotto Chen-Fen Huang Shrikanth S. Narayanan Marcia J. Isakson Dwayne Paschall Finn B. Jensen Sunwoong Lee James H. Miller Ex officio: John R. Preston Fredericka Bell-Berti, member of Medals and Awards Committee Purnima Ratilal Abeer Alwan, member of Membership Committee Karim G. Sabra Shrikanth S. Narayanan, member of ASACOS John B. Schneider Jennell Vick, member of Student Council Ralph A. Stephen Alexander G. Voronovich Structural Acoustics and Vibration Kevin L. Williams Sean F. Wu, Chair to 2009 Lisa M. Zurk

Term to 2009 Term to 2008 Joseph M. Cuschieri Juan I. Arvelo, Jr. David Feit Pierre-Philippe Beaujean Sabih I. Hayek Shira L. Broschat Philip L. Marston Geoffrey F. Edelmann James E. Phillips Peter Gerstoft Earl G. Williams John H. Glattetre Brian T. Hefner Term to 2008 Jean-Pierre Hermand Dean E. Capone Charles W. Holland Joel Garrelick John C. Osler Peter C. Herdic Kevin B. Smith Teik C. Lim Brian J. Sperry Thomas J. Royston Christopher T. Tindle Angie Sarkissian Alexandra I. Tolstoy Richard L. Weaver Jeffrey S. Vipperman Term to 2007 David C. Calvo Term to 2007 Jee Woong Choi Jeffrey E. Boisvert Christian P. de Moustier Stephen C. Conlon Stan E. Dosso Linda P. Franzoni Nicholas C. Makris Robert C. Haberman Zoi-Heleni Michalopoulou Rudolph Martinez Tracianne B. Neilsen Koorosh Naghshineh Robert I. Odom Carl Pray Marshall H. Orr Michael F. Shaw Gregory J. Orris James C. Preisig Martin Siderius Ex officio: Kathleen E. Wage Courtney B. Burroughs, member of Membership Committee Jixun Zhou Mauro Pierucci, member of Medals and Awards Committee Sabih I. Hayek, member of ASACOS Ex officio: Micah Shepherd, member of Student Council Henrik Schmidt, member of Membership Committee Eric I. Thorsos, member of Medals and Awards Committee Joseph F. Zalesak, member of ASACOS Underwater Acoustics Andrew Ganse, member of Student Council Kevin LePage, Chair to 2009

Term to 2009 Administrative Committees 2006–2007 Ralph N. Baer Archives and History John R. Buck Julian D. Maynard, Chair to 2007 Chi-Fan Cheng David R. Dowling Roger C. Gauss Term to 2009 Frank S. Henyey Jont B. Allen

J. Acoust. Soc. Am., Vol. 120, No. 3, September 2006 1147 Ralph R. Goodman Term to 2007 David I. Havelock Peter G. Cable Wesley L. Nyborg M. David Egan Richard J. Peppin Uwe J. Hansen William J. Strong Diane Kewley-Port Thomas D. Rossing Term to 2008 Anthony A. Atchley Ex officio: Leo L. Beranek William J. Cavanaugh, past Chair William J. Cavanaugh Richard H. Lyon, past Chair Steven L. Garrett Education in Acoustics Logan E. Hargrove James M. Sabatier, Chair to 2009 Allan D. Pierce Victor W. Sparrow Term to 2009 Term to 2007 William A. Ahroon Takayuki Arai Henry E. Bass Anthony A. Atchley David T. Blackstock Fredericka Bell-Berti E. Carr Everbach Suzanne E. Boyce William W. Lang Robert D. Celmer David L. Moyer Annabel J. Cohen Richard Stern E. Carr Everbach Rosalie M. Uchanski Thomas B. Gabrielson Audit Committee Steven L. Garrett George V. Frisk, Chair to 2006 Kent L. Gee Uwe J. Hansen Term to 2007 Katherine S. Harris Judy R. Dubno Elizabeth S. Ivey Term to 2008 Joie P. Jones Diane Kewley-Port Maria B. Mody Amy T. Neel Books+ P. K. Raju David L. Bradley, Chair to 2008 Deborah M. Rekart Daniel A. Russell Term to 2009 M. Roman Serbyn Juan I. Arvelo Victor W. Sparrow Jerry H. Ginsberg Emily A. Tobey Philip L. Marston Term to 2008 Term to 2008 David T. Blackstock James P. Cottingham Courtney B. Burroughs Nancy S. McGarr Robin O. Cleveland Jeffrey A. Nystuen Kenneth A. Cunefare Neil A. Shaw D. Michael Daly Emily A. Tobey Mary Florentine Term to 2007 Logan E. Hargrove Stanley L. Chin-Bing Mardi C. Hastings Robert C. Spindel Peter L. Hoekje Darrell R. Jackson Ex officio: Michel T. T. Jackson Allan D. Pierce, Editor-in-Chief Murray S. Korman Luc Mongeau College of Fellows Neil A. Shaw Janet M. Weisenberger, Chair to 2007 Kevin B. Smith Term to 2009 Ralph A. Stephen Thomas J. Matula James E. West Scott D. Sommerfeldt Wayne M.Wright Stephen C. Thompson Term to 2007 Beverly A. Wright George A. Bissinger Term to 2008 David A. Brown Stanley L. Ehrlich Robert D. Collier E. Carr Everbach Corinne M. Darvennes

1148 J. Acoust. Soc. Am., Vol. 120, No. 3, September 2006 Margaritis S. Fourakis Term to 2007 Carole E. Gelfer Uwe J. Hansen Musical Acoustics Daniel O. Ludwigsen Fredericka Bell-Berti Speech Communication Sharon Y. Manuel Mahlon D. Burkhard Engineering Acoustics Philip L. Marston James F. Lynch Acoustical Oceanography Ralph T. Muehleisen Leon H. Sibul Signal Processing in Acoustics Andrew A. Piacsek Meetings—June 2006–November 2006 Daniel R. Raichel Thomas D. Rossing Clark S. Penrod, Chair to 2008 Ronald A. Roy Dawn R. Schuette Whitlow W.L. Au, Fall 2006, Honolulu and ASA Vice President-Elect Scott D. Sommerfeldt Fred C. DeMetz, Fall 2007, New Orleans William Thompson, Jr. George V. Frisk, Vice President Robert A. Walkling Murray S. Hodgson, Spring 2005, Vancouver George S. K. Wong James H. Miller, Spring 2006, Providence Elaine Moran, ASA Office Manager, ex officio Ethics and Grievances Peggy B. Nelson, Fall 2005, Minneapolis Janet M. Weisenberger, Chair to 2008 Charles E. Schmid, Executive Director, ex officio Term to 2008 Scott D. Sommerfeldt, Spring 2007, Salt Lake City William J. Cavanaugh Meetings—November 2006–June 2007 Gerald L. D’Spain Clark S. Penrod, Chair to 2008 Barbara G. Shinn-Cunningham Whitlow W.L. Au, Fall 2006, Honolulu and ASA Vice President-Elect International Research and Education Fred C. DeMetz, Fall 2007, New Orleans Gilles A. Daigle, Chair George V. Frisk, Vice President Sergio Beristain Murray S. Hodgson, Spring 2005, Vancouver Lawrence A. Crum James H. Miller, Spring 2006, Providence Malcolm J. Crocker Elaine Moran, ASA Office Manager, ex officio Samir N. Y. Gerges Peggy B. Nelson, Fall 2005, Minneapolis Vera A. Khokhlova Charles E. Schmid, Executive Director, ex officio William M. Hartmann Scott D. Sommerfeldt, Spring 2007, Salt Lake City Konstantin A. Naugolnykh William A. Yost, Spring 2008, Paris Oleg Sapozhnikov Brigitte Schulte-Fortkamp Membership Michael Vorlander Peter H. Rogers, Chair to 2009 Suk Wang Yoon Term to 2009 Investments Abeer Alwan Speech Communication Ilene J. Busch-Vishnaic, Chair to 2007 Lynne E. Werner Psychological and Physiological Acoustics James P. Cottingham Musical Acoustics Term to 2009 Thomas R. Howarth Engineering Acoustics William A. Yost Andrea M. Simmons Animal Bioacoustics

Term to 2008 Term to 2008 Lawrence A. Crum E. Carr Everbach Biomedical Ultrasound/Bioresponse to Richard H. Lyon Vibration Courtney B. Burroughs Structural Acoustics and Vibration Ex officio: Burton G. Hurdle International Members David Feit, Treasurer John Erdreich Noise Medals and Awards Term to 2007 David L. Bradley, Chair to 2007 Mohsen Badiey Acoustical Oceanography Term to 2009 Steven L. Garrett Physical Acoustics Lawrence A. Crum Biomedical Ultrasound/Bioresponse to David I. Havelock Signal Processing in Acoustics Vibration Henrik Schmidt Underwater Acoustics William M. Hartmann Psychological and Physiological Acoustics Gregory C. Tocci Architectural Acoustics Thomas J. Matula Physical Acoustics Nancy S. Timmerman Noise Prizes and Special Fellowships Term to 2008 Wayne M. Wright, Chair to 2007 James A. Simmons Animal Bioacoustics Mauro Pierucci Structural Acoustics and Vibration Term to 2009 Eric I. Thorsos Underwater Acoustics Fredericka Bell-Berti Ewart A. Wetherill Architectural Acoustics James E. West

J. Acoust. Soc. Am., Vol. 120, No. 3, September 2006 1149 Term to 2008 Rebecca Mercuri Delaware Valley Uwe J. Hansen Gary W. Siebein Florida Timothy J. Foulkes Greater Boston Term to 2007 Michael J. Anderson Inland Northwest Anthony A. Atchley Neil A. Shaw Los Angeles Constantine Trahiotis Hari S. Paul Madras, India Public Relations Sergio Beristain Mexico City Geoffrey E. Edelmann, Chair to 2009 Roger T. Richards Narragansett Term to 2009 Jonathan Rathsam Univ. of Nebraska, Student Chapter Paul A. Baxley Richard F. Riedel New York Ann E. Bowles George A. Bissinger North Carolina Paul D. Hursky Peter F. Assmann North Texas Jack E. Randorff James R. Angerer Northwest Barbara J. Sotirin David Lubman Orange County Lora J. Van Uffelen Paul A. Baxley San Diego Kathleen E. Wage David Braslau Upper Midwest Juan I. Arvelo Washington, D. C. Term to 2008 Thomas M. Disch Wisconsin Katherine H. Kim Ellen S. Livingston Ex officio: Andrew A. Piacsek James M. Sabatier, Chair, Education in Acoustics Brigitte Schulte-Fortkamp David Feit, Treasurer Connor Duke, Student Council representative Term to 2007 Kelly J. Benoit-Bird Rules and Governance E. Carr Everbach William M. Hartmann, Chair to 2008 Christy K. Holland Term to 2009 Joe W. Posey Elaine Moran Stephen C. Thompson Charles E. Schmid Ex officio: Term to 2008 Allan D. Pierce, Editor-in-Chief Ilene J. Busch-Vishnaic Elaine Moran, ASA Office Manager Tony F. W. Embleton Charles E. Schmid, Executive Director Richard H. Lyon Thomas D. Rossing, Echoes Editor Term to 2007 Publication Policy William J. Cavanaugh Mark F. Hamilton, Chair to 2009 Floyd Dunn Term to 2009 Standards Jont B. Allen Executive Committee David I. Havelock Paul D. Schomer, Chair ͑Standards Director͒ Brenda L. Lonsbury-Martin Robert D. Hellweg, Vice Chair Term to 2008 Susan B. Blaeser, Standards Manager, ex officio Diane Dalecki S1 Representation James F. Lynch John P. Sieler, Chair S1 and ASA rep. on S1 George S. K. Wong, Vice Chair S1 and ASA alternate rep. on S1 Term to 2007 Charles C. Church S2 Representation Mark F. Hamilton Ronald L. Eshleman, Chair S2 Mardi C. Hastings Ali T. Herfat, Vice Chair Sabih I. Hayek, ASA rep. on S2 Ex officio: Bruce E. Douglas, ASA alternate rep. on S2 Gilles A. Daigle, President-Elect Allan D. Pierce, Editor-in-Chief S3 Representation Craig A. Champlin, Chair S3 and ASA rep. on S3 Regional Chapters Robert F. Burkard, Vice Chair S3 and ASA alternate rep. on S3 Juan I. Arvelo, Cochair to 2008 Elizabeth A. McLaughlin, Cochair to 2008 S12 Representation Robert D. Hellweg, Chair S12 Brian B. Monson Brigham Young Univ. Student Chapter William J. Murphy, Vice Chair S12 Angelo J. Campanella Central Ohio Bennett M. Brooks, ASA rep. on S12 Robert M. Keolian Central Pennsylvania David Lubman, ASA alternate rep. on S12 Ernest M. Weiler Cincinnati

1150 J. Acoust. Soc. Am., Vol. 120, No. 3, September 2006 International TAGs ͑ex officio͒ Women in Acoustics Paul D. Schomer, Chair, U. S. TAG for ISO/TC 43 and ISO/TC 43/SC1 Lisa M. Zurk, Chair to 2009 David J. Evans, Chair, U. S. TAG for ISO/TC 108 Term to 2009 Victor A. Nedzelnitsky, U. S. Technical Advisor for IEC/TC 29 Kathryn W. Hatlestad ASA Technical Committee Representatives Carolyn J. Richie Whitlow W. L. Au, Chair of ASA Technical Council, ex officio Term to 2008 Anthony P. Lyons, Acoustical Oceanography Ann E. Bowles, Animal Bioacoustics Mardi C. Hastings George E. Winzer, Architectural Acoustics Brigitte Schulte-Fortkamp E. Carr Everbach, Biomedical Ultrasound/Bioresponse to Vibration Sophie Van Parijs Mahlon D. Burkhard, Engineering Acoustics Lily M. Wang Ian M. Lindevald, Musical Acoustics Term to 2007 Richard J. Peppin, Noise Sarah Hargus Ferguson Sameer I. Madanshetty, Physical Acoustics Benjamin R. Munson Brent W. Edwards, Psychological and Physiological Acoustics Donna L. Neff Charles F. Gaumond, Signal Processing in Acoustics Nancy S. Timmerman Shrikanth S. Narayanan, Speech Communication Sabih I. Hayek, Structural Acoustics and Vibration Ex officio: Joseph F. Zalesak, Underwater Acoustics George V. Frisk, Vice President-Elect

ASA Officers Acoustics Today Editorial Board David Feit, Treasurer, ex officio Richard Stern, Chair Charles E. Schmid, Executive Director, ex officio Elliott H. Berger Ilene J. Busch-Vishniac ͑ ͒ Past Chair of ASACOS ex officio Carol Espy-Wilson Tony F. W. Embleton K. Anthony Hoover ͑ ͒ Associate Editors for Standards News—JASA ex officio James F. Lynch Susan B. Blaeser Allan D. Pierce George S. K. Wong Thomas D. Rossing Student Council Brigitte Schulte-Fortkamp Brian B. Monson Chair and Musical Acoustics JASA Editorial Board Jennell C. Vick Speech Communication Term to June 2009 Suzanne P. Carr Psychological and Physiological Acoustics S. L. Broschat, Underwater Sound Michelle C. Vigeant Architectural Acoustics J. A. Colosi, Underwater Sound Connor R. Duke Noise and Regional Chapters Com. Liaison D. R. Dowling, Underwater Sound Andrew Ganse Underwater Acoustics R. F. Freyman, Psychological Acoustics Marla M. Holt Animal Bioacoustics R. C. Gauss, Undewater Sound Todd A. Hay Physical Acoustics M. C. Hastings, Bioacoustics—Animal Lora J. van Uffelen Acoustical Oceanography R. Y. Litovsky, Psychological Acoustics Alexandra Loubeau Engineering Acoustics A. Lofqvist, Speech Production John Camin Signal Processing in Acoustics B. L. Lonsbury-Martin, Physiological Acoustics Michael Canney Biomedical/Bioresponse T. D. Mast, Ultrasonics and Physical Acoustics Micah Shepherd Structural Acoustics and Vibration J. J. McCoy, Mathematical Acoustics Tutorials E. Moran, Acoustical News—USA Lily M. Wang, Chair to 2009 T. D. Rossing, Education in Acoustics C. H. Shadle, Speech Production Term to 2009 V. W. Sparrow, Education in Acoustics Gerald D. Kidd E. J. Sullivan, Acoustic Signal Processing R. Stern, Electronic Archives Term to 2008 A. I. Tolstoy, Underwater Sound Kenneth A. Cunefare S. F. Wu, General Linear Acoustics David R. Dowling Barbara G. Shinn-Cunningham Term to June 2008 K. A. Attenborough, Noise Term to 2007 S. B. Blaeser, Acoustical News—Standards Ann R. Bradlow D. S. Burnett, Computational Acoustics James V. Candy W. M. Carey, Signal Processing in Acoustics James P. Chambers K. A. Cunefare, Noise, Its Effects and Control Ex officio: D. Deutsch, Music and Musical Instruments Charles E. Schmid, Executive Director D. Feit, Structural Acoustics and Vibration N. H. Fletcher, Music and Musical Instruments K. G. Foote, Underwater Sound

J. Acoust. Soc. Am., Vol. 120, No. 3, September 2006 1151 K. W. Grant, Speech Perception J. M. Hillenbrand, Speech Perception P. E. Iverson, Speech Perception A. Lofqvist, Speech Production G. C. Lauchle, Atmospheric Acoustics and Aeroacoustics J. F. Lynch, Underwater Acoustics R. A. Lutfi, Psychological Acoustics B. L. Lonsbury-Martin, Physiological Acoustics P. L. Marston, Acoustical Reviews-Books T. J. Matula, Ultrasonics, Quantum Acoustics and Physical Effects of W. G. Mayer, Acoustical News-International Sound V. E. Ostashev, Atmospheric Acoustics and Aeroacoustics J. G. McDaniel, Structural Acoustics and Vibration L. D. Rice, Acoustical Reviews-Patents A. N. Norris, General Linear Acoustics B. Schulte-Fortkamp, Noise: Effects and Control D. D. O’Shaughnessy, Speech Processing and Communication Systems and Speech Perception W. P. Shofner, Physiological Acoustics T. D. Rossing, Music and Musical Instruments M. Sommers, Speech Perception M. R. Stinson, Noise R. A. Stephen, Underwater Sound R. M. Waxler, General Linear Acoustics B. H. Story, Speech Production N. Xiang, Architectural Acoustics J. E. Sussman, Speech Perception A. J. Szeri, Ultrasonics and Physical Effects of Sound Term to 30 June 2008 R. M. Waxler, General Linear Acoustics I. J. Busch-Vishniac, Transduction G. S. K. Wong, Acoustical News—Standards D. Deutsch, Musical Acoustics A. J. Zuckerwar, Applied Acoustics; Transduction; Acoustical Q.-J. Fu, Psychological Acoustics Measurements V. E. Ostashev, Aeroacoustics and Atmospheric Acoustics Term to June 2007 Term to 30 June 2007 W. W. L. Au, Bioacoustics-Animal G. B. Deane, Underwater Sound P. E. Barbone, Ultrasonics; Physical Effects of Sound S. G. Kargl, Nonlinear Acoustics Y. H. Berthelot, Ultrasonics, Physical Effects of Sound C. F. Moss, Bioacoustics A. R. Bradlow, Speech Perception J. Mobley, Ultrasonics, Quantum Acoustics and Physical Effects of Sound C. C. Church, Bioacoustics-Biomedical A. J. M. Davis, General Linear Acoustics Ad-Hoc Committees 2006–2007 F. Dunn, Bioacoustics-Biomedical JASA–EL Editorial Advisory L. P. Franzoni, Structural Acoustics andVibration J. H. Grose, Psychological Acoustics D. Keith Wilson, Chair J. H. Ginsberg, Structural Acoustics and Vibration E. Carr Everbach M. F. Hamilton, Nonlinear Acoustics Anders Lofqvist M. S. Howe, Atmospheric Acoustics and Aeroacoustics Philip L. Marston M. Kleiner, Architectural Acoustics Andrew N. Norris J. G. McDaniel, Structural Acoustics and Vibration Allan D. Pierce D. D. O’Shaughnessy, Speech Processing and Communication Systems Michael R. Stinson A. J. Oxenham, Psychological Acoustics Strategic Use of Investment Income R. Raspet, Ultrasonics, Physical Effects of Sound David Feit, Chair W. L. Siegmann, Underwater Acoustics Anthony A. Atchley J. A. Simmons, Bioacoustics Charles E. Schmid L. C. Sutherland, Atmospheric Acoustics and Aeroacoustics L. L. Thompson, General Linear Acoustics Education Outreach R. L. Weaver, Structural Acoustics and Vibration Uwe J. Hansen E. G. Williams, Structural Acoustics and Vibration Jules S. Jaffe N. Xiang, Architectural Acoustics Matthew E. Poese

Associate Editors of JASA Express Letters (JASA-EL) ASA Webpage Term to 30 June 2009 Stephen C. Thompson, Chair D. S. Burnett, Computational Acoustics Susan Blaeser J. V. Candy, Acoustic Signal Processing Andrew Ganse C. C. Church, Bioacoustics Katherine Kim M. F. Hamilton, Nonlinear Acoustics Elaine Moran

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