FIRST-IN-THE-NATION MEDICAL ANALYSIS: The Hidden Health Impact of Pickleball Noise on Neighbors

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NEW ORLEANS, LA – MAY 19, 2025 – As pickleball’s popularity explodes nationwide, a groundbreaking medical analysis reveals the concerning physiological and psychological effects of its signature impulsive noise on nearby residents. This first-of-its-kind investigation demands the attention of public health officials, researchers, and communities grappling with this emerging issue.

Kathleen Romito, MD, Medical Advisor to the Lasiewicz Foundation (La Cañada Flintridge, CA), will present preliminary findings live in New Orleans this week during the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) annual meeting at the New Orleans Marriott. Dr. Romito’s presentation, “Session 4aPP — Pickleball noise – A qualitative description of the psychological and physiological effects on nearby residents” will take place on Thursday, May 22, 2025, from 8:00 AM to 9:30 AM CT. Her accompanying paper is co-authored with Daniel Fink, MD.

Dr. Romito’s analysis of public data, including social media, news reports, and legal filings, indicates a potential link between persistent pickleball “pop” and serious non-auditory health impacts reported by neighbors. These include anxiety, sleep disruption, the novel phenomenon of phantom pickleball sounds, and alarmingly, PTSD-like symptoms and suicidal ideation. The study also highlights self-reported cardiac and neurological complaints.

This presentation is a crucial opportunity for journalists to:

Be the first to report on this novel medical analysis highlighting a potential public health concern linked to a rapidly growing sport.
Interview Dr. Kathleen Romito, MD, a medical professional on the front lines of this emerging issue.
Gain access to preliminary data and insights into the surprising ways impulsive noise may be affecting communities.
Capture a unique angle on the ongoing discussion surrounding pickleball’s impact on neighborhoods.

“We are urgently calling on the research community, the pickleball industry, and community leaders to bring their attention to this emerging and serious concern” states Dr. Romito. “With over 50,000 pickleball courts across the U.S. and more being built every week, understanding the potential health consequences for nearby residents is paramount. This initial analysis underscores the urgent need for further, comprehensive research.”

CREDENTIALED MEDIA WELCOME: The Acoustical Society of America offers free registration to credentialed and professional freelance journalists. For registration details, please contact AIP Media Services at media@aip.org.

About the Robert and Nalini Lasiewicz Foundation:
The Robert and Nalini Lasiewicz Foundation is a California 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to connecting researchers, policymakers, noise experts, engineers, neighbors, players, vendors, and local governments to address the growing problem of noise in shared community spaces.

Provided by Robert and Nalini Lasiewicz Foundation

Here Comes the Boom! Studying the Effects of Rocket Launch Sonic Booms on Neighboring Communities #ASA188

Lower-frequency sonic booms from Falcon 9 launches can feel like little earthquakes.

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NEW ORLEANS, May 19, 2025 – Rocket launches are amazing spectacles, but close-up viewers know to bring a set of earplugs or earmuffs to protect their hearing. However, the boom of a launch isn’t reserved for those who sign up to watch it – it can also be heard and felt in surrounding communities.

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 is a rocket used for both human and nonhuman space missions. Since 2010, the rocket has been launched over 400 times, and one of the launch sites for Falcon 9 is the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.

“Although Ventura County is 60-100 miles from the Vandenberg Space Force Base, sonic booms and other noise from rockets launched over the ocean are sometimes heard on land,” said Brigham Young University physics professor Kent Gee. “As the number of launches with satellite orbits requiring trajectories along the California coastline increases, these booms are being heard more frequently.”

Motivated by noise concerns from residents in Ventura County, a team of researchers from BYU and California State University, Bakersfield collected 132 measurements from sonic booms over an area of 200 square miles during the summer of 2024.

Makayle Kellison, a BYU graduate student, and Gee will present their group’s work Monday, May 19, at 2:20 p.m. CT as part of the joint 188th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and 25th International Congress on Acoustics, running May 18-23.

A view of the Falcon 9 rocket launch from a park in Ventura County. Credit: Kent Gee

“Right now, residents may hear a sonic boom up to five times per month, or not at all,” Gee said.

In 2024, the Falcon 9 rocket was launched 46 times out of the Vandenberg base, averaging almost one launch per week. But not every launch makes an audible boom, and not every launch sound is created equal.

“The magnitude of these sonic booms is not uniform across the county and can vary greatly with weather conditions, launch time, vehicle trajectory, and time of year,” Kellison said. “Communities near Edwards Air Force Base, a hub for supersonic aircraft testing, are familiar with occasional sonic booms; however, an aircraft sonic boom differs significantly from a rocket ascent sonic boom.”

Rocket ascent sonic booms are much lower in frequency and can, indoors, sound — and feel — like an earthquake. The boom’s dominant energy is at a frequency of less than 1 hertz, below the range of human hearing, meaning that the booms rattle homes rather than bursting eardrums.

By collecting data on multiple qualities of the Falcon 9 sonic booms, researchers can help discern how different launch-day variables affect a boom’s impact.

“With a better understanding of the underlying rocket sonic boom physics, we hope to inform Base operations and policy makers, allowing for the space launch industry to sustainably grow,” Kellison said.

——————— MORE MEETING INFORMATION ———————
Main Meeting Website: https://acousticalsociety.org/new-orleans-2025/
Technical Program: https://eppro01.ativ.me/src/EventPilot/php/express/web/planner.php?id=ASAICA25

ASA PRESS ROOM
In the coming weeks, ASA’s Press Room will be updated with newsworthy stories and the press conference schedule at https://acoustics.org/asa-press-room/.

LAY LANGUAGE PAPERS
ASA will also share dozens of lay language papers about topics covered at the conference. Lay language papers are summaries (300-500 words) of presentations written by scientists for a general audience. They will be accompanied by photos, audio, and video. Learn more at https://acoustics.org/lay-language-papers/.

PRESS REGISTRATION
ASA will grant free registration to credentialed and professional freelance journalists. If you are a reporter and would like to attend the meeting and/or press conferences, contact AIP Media Services at media@aip.org. For urgent requests, AIP staff can also help with setting up interviews and obtaining images, sound clips, or background information.

ABOUT THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA
The Acoustical Society of America is the premier international scientific society in acoustics devoted to the science and technology of sound. Its 7,000 members worldwide represent a broad spectrum of the study of acoustics. ASA publications include The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (the world’s leading journal on acoustics), JASA Express Letters, Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, Acoustics Today magazine, books, and standards on acoustics. The society also holds two major scientific meetings each year. See https://acousticalsociety.org/.

ABOUT THE INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION FOR ACOUSTICS
The purpose of the International Commission for Acoustics (ICA) is to promote international development and collaboration in all fields of acoustics including research, development, education, and standardization. ICA’s mission is to be the reference point for the acoustic community, becoming more inclusive and proactive in our global outreach, increasing coordination and support for the growing international interest and activity in acoustics. Learn more at https://www.icacommission.org/.

Laying the Groundwork to Diagnose Speech Impairments in Children with Clinical AI #ASA188

Building large AI datasets can help experts provide faster, earlier diagnoses.

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NEW ORLEANS, May 19, 2025 – Speech and language impairments affect over a million children every year, and identifying and treating these conditions early is key to helping these children overcome them. Clinicians struggling with time, resources, and access are in desperate need of tools to make diagnosing speech impairments faster and more accurate.

Marisha Speights, assistant professor at Northwestern University, built a data pipeline to train clinical artificial intelligence tools for childhood speech screening. She will present her work Monday, May 19, at 8:20 a.m. CT as part of the joint 188th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and 25th International Congress on Acoustics, running May 18-23.

Children at a childcare center. Credit: GETTY CC BY-SA

AI-based speech recognition and clinical diagnostic tools have been in use for years, but these tools are typically trained and used exclusively on adult speech. That makes them unsuitable for clinical work involving children. New AI tools must be developed, but there are no large datasets of recorded child speech for these tools to be trained on, in part because building these datasets is uniquely challenging.

“There’s a common misconception that collecting speech from children is as straightforward as it is with adults — but in reality, it requires a much more controlled and developmentally sensitive process,” said Speights. “Unlike adult speech, child speech is highly variable, acoustically distinct, and underrepresented in most training corpora.”

To remedy this, Speights and her colleagues began collecting and analyzing large volumes of child speech recordings to build such a dataset. However, they quickly realized a problem: The collection, processing, and annotation of thousands of speech samples is difficult without exactly the kind of automated tools they were trying to build.

“It’s a bit of a catch-22,” said Speights. “We need automated tools to scale data collection, but we need large datasets to train those tools.”

In response, the researchers built a computational pipeline to turn raw speech data into a useful dataset for training AI tools. They collected a representative sample of speech from children across the country, verified transcripts and enhanced audio quality using their custom software, and provided a platform that will enable detailed annotation by experts.

The result is a high-quality dataset that can be used to train clinical AI, giving experts access to a powerful set of tools to make diagnosing speech impairments much easier.

“Speech-language pathologists, health care clinicians and educators will be able to use AI-powered systems to flag speech-language concerns earlier, especially in places where access to specialists is limited,” said Speights.

——————— MORE MEETING INFORMATION ———————
Main Meeting Website: https://acousticalsociety.org/new-orleans-2025/
Technical Program: https://eppro01.ativ.me/src/EventPilot/php/express/web/planner.php?id=ASAICA25

ASA PRESS ROOM
In the coming weeks, ASA’s Press Room will be updated with newsworthy stories and the press conference schedule at https://acoustics.org/asa-press-room/.

LAY LANGUAGE PAPERS
ASA will also share dozens of lay language papers about topics covered at the conference. Lay language papers are summaries (300-500 words) of presentations written by scientists for a general audience. They will be accompanied by photos, audio, and video. Learn more at https://acoustics.org/lay-language-papers/.

PRESS REGISTRATION
ASA will grant free registration to credentialed and professional freelance journalists. If you are a reporter and would like to attend the meeting and/or press conferences, contact AIP Media Services at media@aip.org. For urgent requests, AIP staff can also help with setting up interviews and obtaining images, sound clips, or background information.

ABOUT THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA
The Acoustical Society of America is the premier international scientific society in acoustics devoted to the science and technology of sound. Its 7,000 members worldwide represent a broad spectrum of the study of acoustics. ASA publications include The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (the world’s leading journal on acoustics), JASA Express Letters, Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, Acoustics Today magazine, books, and standards on acoustics. The society also holds two major scientific meetings each year. See https://acousticalsociety.org/.

ABOUT THE INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION FOR ACOUSTICS
The purpose of the International Commission for Acoustics (ICA) is to promote international development and collaboration in all fields of acoustics including research, development, education, and standardization. ICA’s mission is to be the reference point for the acoustic community, becoming more inclusive and proactive in our global outreach, increasing coordination and support for the growing international interest and activity in acoustics. Learn more at https://www.icacommission.org/.

Helping Noisy Data Centers Fit Into Residential Neighborhoods #ASA188

Noise ordinances can protect residents and guide developers toward quieter designs.

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NEW ORLEANS, May 19, 2025 – The past few years have seen an explosion in data centers built across the country, as developers try to keep up with demand created by artificial intelligence, cloud storage, and e-commerce. Many of these data centers are being built near residential areas, and the people who live there keep complaining about the noise.

Gregory Miller and his colleagues at Trinity Consultants will present their work on noise control strategies for data centers on Monday, May 19, at 8:05 a.m. CT as part of the joint 188th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and 25th International Congress on Acoustics, running May 18-23.

NSA data center (seen from Freedom Ridge) 4, Bluffdale, Utah, USA. Credit: Cory Doctorow, CC by S-A

A key protection communities have from excessive noise is a well-crafted noise code. Local governments can pass laws or regulations limiting the amount of noise facilities like data centers can produce, along with more detailed rules regarding the types of noise, how often those noises occur, and how far away that noise can be perceived. Unfortunately, many jurisdictions lack detailed noise ordinances for data centers.

“Over the course of our work on noise control for data centers, one of the greatest challenges we kept facing was the lack of reliable noise codes that our clients could use, with conflicting noise requirements between local, county, and state authorities,” said Miller.

The absence of explicit noise ordinances means residents cannot be protected from extreme noise and developers have no clear guidance when designing new data centers. This problem is exacerbated by the addition of dedicated power plants and transformer stations.

“Having exhausted many of the sites that readily have enough power to run a data center, many new data centers are accompanied by power generation stations,” said Miller. “In many cases, the power generation is at least as noisy — if not noisier — than the data center it serves.”

To help develop proper guidance, Miller and his colleagues identified many of the worst sources of data center noise, along with the most effective means of controlling that noise. Some of the potential solutions include sound barriers, thick walls around power plants, and low-frequency resonators on some of the biggest sources of noise.

During the conference, Miller will also discuss his team’s efforts to help both data center developers and residential communities find solutions that work.

“We are continuing to work with data center developers on strategies for interacting with communities and demonstrating their interest in being reliable neighbors,” said Miller. “We are also working with communities to try to help them understand the types of information they need to develop robust noise ordinances.”

By encouraging a spirit of collaboration between both groups, Miller hopes that everyone can benefit from a quieter breed of data center.

“Ultimately, we want to help foster an environment in which residents are protected from excessive noise, and in which developers can reliably build new data centers within parameters that are reliable and reasonable,” said Miller.

——————— MORE MEETING INFORMATION ———————
Main Meeting Website: https://acousticalsociety.org/new-orleans-2025/
Technical Program: https://eppro01.ativ.me/src/EventPilot/php/express/web/planner.php?id=ASAICA25

ASA PRESS ROOM
In the coming weeks, ASA’s Press Room will be updated with newsworthy stories and the press conference schedule at https://acoustics.org/asa-press-room/.

LAY LANGUAGE PAPERS
ASA will also share dozens of lay language papers about topics covered at the conference. Lay language papers are summaries (300-500 words) of presentations written by scientists for a general audience. They will be accompanied by photos, audio, and video. Learn more at https://acoustics.org/lay-language-papers/.

PRESS REGISTRATION
ASA will grant free registration to credentialed and professional freelance journalists. If you are a reporter and would like to attend the meeting and/or press conferences, contact AIP Media Services at media@aip.org. For urgent requests, AIP staff can also help with setting up interviews and obtaining images, sound clips, or background information.

ABOUT THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA
The Acoustical Society of America is the premier international scientific society in acoustics devoted to the science and technology of sound. Its 7,000 members worldwide represent a broad spectrum of the study of acoustics. ASA publications include The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (the world’s leading journal on acoustics), JASA Express Letters, Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, Acoustics Today magazine, books, and standards on acoustics. The society also holds two major scientific meetings each year. See https://acousticalsociety.org/.

ABOUT THE INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION FOR ACOUSTICS
The purpose of the International Commission for Acoustics (ICA) is to promote international development and collaboration in all fields of acoustics including research, development, education, and standardization. ICA’s mission is to be the reference point for the acoustic community, becoming more inclusive and proactive in our global outreach, increasing coordination and support for the growing international interest and activity in acoustics. Learn more at https://www.icacommission.org/.

Using Sound To ‘See’ Unexploded Munitions on the Seafloor #ASA188

Underwater unexploded ordnance poses human safety concerns, and acoustics are the best way to identify them.

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New Orleans, May 19, 2025 – More than 400 underwater sites in the United States are potentially contaminated with unexploded ordnance (UXO) — weapons that did not explode upon deployment, which continue to pose a safety concern.

Connor Hodges, a doctoral student at the University of Texas at Austin, studies the changes in the acoustic characteristics of these UXOs after they have been subject to corrosion and biofouling to help detect them underwater.

“Many of these sites are in shallow water, potentially posing a threat to human safety, and date back several decades,” said Hodges. “This long exposure to the environment leads to corrosion as well as encrustation in the form of barnacles or algal growth.”

Corrosion and growth make UXOs difficult to observe with standard sonar imaging techniques, as the objects begin to lose resemblance to their original appearance and blend into their environment over time. These changes also alter how acoustic signals scatter from the objects, and the changes can become more severe over time as corrosion or organic growth gets worse.

Using Sound To ‘See’ Unexploded Munitions on the Seafloor

Clockwise from bottom left: photo of corroded bomblet, X-ray CT scan of the same bomblet, acoustic fingerprint of the bomblet with corrosion signature cross section of the bomblet (inset). Credit: Kevin Lee, Connor Hodges, and Preston Wilson

Hodges will discuss the use of acoustics for corroded UXO recovery on Monday, May 19, at 8:00 a.m. CT as part of the joint 188th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and 25th International Congress on Acoustics, running May 18-23.

Hodges and his collaborators tested a collection of AN-Mk 23 practice bombs — miniature bombs used for dive-bombing practice — in various stages of corrosion, which had been buried in a brackish pond on Martha’s Vineyard for about 80 years. They compared the acoustics of these samples to those of pristine AN-Mk 23, monitoring the scattering response at different directions and angles.

The researchers found the change in size, shape, and material makeup of a bomb as it corrodes changes its acoustic resonance and leads to a different, weaker scattered acoustic signal than pristine bombs. The changed acoustic signature could result in the object being misclassified or undetected.

“Acoustic scattering techniques give an insight into the internal structure of the object imaged, as well as a method to ‘see’ into the seafloor,” said Hodges, noting that using sonar to map the seafloor and detect munitions is also faster and cheaper than other techniques.

Many former military sites used for practice bombs are shifting toward public use, making UXO identification a timely endeavor.

“There is a risk of detonation if they are stepped on or otherwise disturbed,” Hodges said. “This poses a larger risk to human safety in shallow waters, and UXO identification and recovery becomes vital as old sites are transitioned away from military use.”

He hopes the work can help provide better predictive tools for finding UXOs in civilian environmental demining efforts and plans to study other types of munitions as well as other types of corrosion and biofouling phenomena.

“Underwater UXO can be tricky to find and recover, so it is important that this can be done safely and effectively,” said Hodges. “We hope this work will ultimately help save lives.”

——————— MORE MEETING INFORMATION ———————
Main Meeting Website: https://acousticalsociety.org/new-orleans-2025/
Technical Program: https://eppro01.ativ.me/src/EventPilot/php/express/web/planner.php?id=ASAICA25

ASA PRESS ROOM
In the coming weeks, ASA’s Press Room will be updated with newsworthy stories and the press conference schedule at https://acoustics.org/asa-press-room/.

LAY LANGUAGE PAPERS
ASA will also share dozens of lay language papers about topics covered at the conference. Lay language papers are summaries (300-500 words) of presentations written by scientists for a general audience. They will be accompanied by photos, audio, and video. Learn more at https://acoustics.org/lay-language-papers/.

PRESS REGISTRATION
ASA will grant free registration to credentialed and professional freelance journalists. If you are a reporter and would like to attend the meeting and/or press conferences, contact AIP Media Services at media@aip.org. For urgent requests, AIP staff can also help with setting up interviews and obtaining images, sound clips, or background information.

ABOUT THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA
The Acoustical Society of America is the premier international scientific society in acoustics devoted to the science and technology of sound. Its 7,000 members worldwide represent a broad spectrum of the study of acoustics. ASA publications include The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (the world’s leading journal on acoustics), JASA Express Letters, Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, Acoustics Today magazine, books, and standards on acoustics. The society also holds two major scientific meetings each year. See https://acousticalsociety.org/.

ABOUT THE INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION FOR ACOUSTICS
The purpose of the International Commission for Acoustics (ICA) is to promote international development and collaboration in all fields of acoustics including research, development, education, and standardization. ICA’s mission is to be the reference point for the acoustic community, becoming more inclusive and proactive in our global outreach, increasing coordination and support for the growing international interest and activity in acoustics. Learn more at https://www.icacommission.org/.

ASA Press Conference Schedule for Tuesday, May 20 #ASA188

Media are invited to join livestreamed press conferences for presentations on clinical AI for child speech, the sounds of pollinators, noise insulation for classrooms, and more.

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NEW ORLEANS, May 6, 2025 – The Acoustical Society of America will host three virtual and in person press conferences Tuesday, May 20, in the Bachus Room on the fourth floor of the New Orleans Marriott Hotel. The ASA and ICA joint meeting will be held May 18-23 at the New Orleans Marriott, and reporters are invited to join technical sessions.

ASA and ICA will offer in-person sessions throughout the week and host livestreamed press conferences. The press conferences will feature a wide range of newsworthy sessions from the upcoming meeting. Media can listen to presentations on the sounds of flowers and pollinators, clinical artificial intelligence for speech disorders, coral reef preservation, and more.

Press releases for a selection of topics will be shared under embargo the week of May 12, and conference highlights can be found on social media by searching the #ASA188 hashtag.

Journalists may pre-register at https://live.webcastplatform.com/go/asa, and video recordings of the press conference sessions will be available upon request.

ASA188 Press Conference Schedule – Tuesday, May 20
Learn more about all meeting sessions via ASA’s meeting page and in the technical program. (topics/times subject to change)

Tuesday, May 20, 9 a.m. CT

Laying the Groundwork to Diagnose Speech Impairments in Children with Clinical AI – Marisha Speights, Northwestern University
1aCA2: Transforming child speech data into clinical-grade artificial intelligence pipelines for speech-language impairment detection, Monday, May 19, 8:20 a.m. CT
Remotely Moving Objects Underwater Using Sound – Dajun Zhang, University of Wisconsin-Madison
2pPAb7: Metamaterial-assisted acoustic manipulation of large objects in water, Tuesday, May 20, 3:20 p.m. CT
Sound Insulation Tiles To Help Calm Crying Kindergarteners – Ikuri Matsuoka, Kumamoto University
5pAA3: A field experiment on the effect of sound absorption on acclimation of new children to kindergarten – Part 1: Analysis of crying children and indoor noise levels, Friday, May 23, 1:40 p.m. CT
Reducing Underwater Noise When Installing Subsea Structures – Junfei Li, Purdue University
2pSA1: Foldable Acoustic Metamaterial for Underwater Broadband Low-frequency Noise Mitigation, Tuesday, May 20, 1 p.m. CT

Tuesday, May 20, 11 a.m. CT

Sounding Out Coral Larval Settlements – Océane Boulais, University of California, San Diego
4aAB6: Field demonstration of enhanced coral larvae settlement using acoustic enrichment, mesoscale artificial structures, and engineered biofilms, Thursday, May 22, 9:20 a.m. CT
Can Plants Hear Their Pollinators? – Francesca Barbero, University of Turin
3aAB1: Vibroacoustic signals produced by flower visitors and their role in plant-insect interactions, Wednesday, May 21, 9 a.m. CT
Here Comes the Boom! Studying the Effects of Rocket Launch Sonic Booms on Neighboring Communities – Kent Gee, Brigham Young University
1pNS4: Falcon-9 ascent sonic boom measurements in Ventura County, California, Monday, May 19, 2:20 p.m. CT
Lay Language Paper Highlights – Keeta Jones, Acoustical Society of America
Acoustics Lay Language Papers (LLPs) are 300–500-word summaries of meeting presentations written by scientists for a general audience. A sampling of LLPs will be discussed (with multimedia provided).

Tuesday, May 20, 2 p.m. CT

Helping Noisy Data Centers Fit Into Residential Neighborhoods – Gregory Miller, Cerami and Associates
1aAAa4: Noise control strategies for Data Centers near residential communities, Monday, May 19, 8:05 a.m. CT
Using Sound To ‘See’ Unexploded Munitions on the Seafloor – Connor Hodges, University of Texas at Austin
1aUW2: Acoustic scattering from inert underwater munitions with severe corrosion damage, Monday, May 19, 8 a.m. CT
ASA Jam Session Preview
Join ASA for a special event on Wednesday, May 21, 8 p.m. CT.

——————— MORE MEETING INFORMATION ——————–

ASA PRESS ROOM
In the coming weeks, ASA’s Press Room will be updated with newsworthy stories and the press conference schedule at https://acoustics.org/asa-press-room/.

LAY LANGUAGE PAPERS
ASA will also share dozens of lay language papers about topics covered at the conference. Lay language papers are summaries (300-500 words) of presentations written by scientists for a general audience. They will be accompanied by photos, audio, and video. Learn more at https://acoustics.org/lay-language-papers/.

PRESS REGISTRATION
ASA will grant free registration to credentialed and professional freelance journalists. If you are a reporter and would like to attend the in-person meeting or virtual press conferences, contact AIP Media Services at media@aip.org. For urgent requests, AIP staff can also help with setting up interviews and obtaining images, sound clips, or background information.

ABOUT THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA
The Acoustical Society of America is the premier international scientific society in acoustics devoted to the science and technology of sound. Its 7,000 members worldwide represent a broad spectrum of the study of acoustics. ASA publications include The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (the world’s leading journal on acoustics), JASA Express Letters, Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, Acoustics Today magazine, books, and standards on acoustics. The society also holds two major scientific meetings each year. See https://acousticalsociety.org/.

ABOUT THE INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION FOR ACOUSTICS
The purpose of the International Commission for Acoustics (ICA) is to promote international development and collaboration in all fields of acoustics including research, development, education, and standardization. ICA’s mission is to be the reference point for the acoustic community, becoming more inclusive and proactive in our global outreach, increasing coordination and support for the growing international interest and activity in acoustics. Learn more at https://www.icacommission.org.