The April cover of JASA is now available! Check it out:

The cover image comes from “Shear wave speeds in a nearly incompressible fibrous material with two unequal fiber families,” by Shuaihu Wang, Ruth J. Okamoto, Matthew D. J. McGarry, and Philip V. Bayly. JASA Coordinating Editor for Biomedical Acoustics Guillaume Haiat says he selected this figure for the cover because it “allow[s] an original visualization of the acoustic field in a fibrous anisotropic soft tissue, which is a common situation that had never been investigated. The decay of the acoustic field is clear and its heterogeneity is quantified.”

Some other research was also highlighted on the April JASA cover:

• From Animal Bioacoustics, “Accurate species classification of Arctic toothed whale echolocation clicks using one-third octave ratios,” by Marie J. Zahn, Michael Ladegaard, Malene Simon, Kathleen M. Stafford, Taiki Sakai, and Kristin L. Laidre
• From Computational Acoustics, “Effect of sound-induced vibrations of the pinna on head-related transfer functions: Experimental and numerical investigations,” by Setare Hajarolasvadi, Morteza Khaleghimeybodi, Payam Razavi, Michael Smirnov, and Sebastian T. Prepeliă
• From Musical Acoustics, “Musical instruments as dynamic sound sources,” by David Ackermann, Fabian Brinkmann, and Stefan Weinzierl
• From Psychological and Physiological Acoustics, “Talker change detection by listeners varying in age and hearing loss,” by Virginia Best, Jayne B. Ahlstrom, Christine R. Mason, Tyler K. Perrachione, Gerald Kidd, Jr., and Judy R. Dubno

All the articles from the cover are free to read for a month after the cover is released, so be sure to check them out! You can find the whole issue at https://pubs.aip.org/asa/jasa/issue/155/4.