Lay Language Papers
Here you will find Lay Language Papers from the most recent ASA Meeting. These are 300 to 500 word summaries of meeting presentations written by scientists for a general audience. Papers are accompanied by photos, audio and video. ASA is happy to provide this platform for media representatives and anyone interested in learning about the newest acoustics research. Please keep in mind that some of the research described in here may not have yet been peer reviewed.
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Fish & Shrimp & Seals, Oh My! Soundscapes of Hawaiian monk seal habitats are dominated by biophony
Kirby Parnell - keparnel@hawaii.edu @kirB15 @kirbyparnell15 Marine Mammal Research Program, University of Hawaii Manoa, Kaneohe, HI, 96744, United States Karlina Merkens Aude Pacini - twitter: @audepacini Lars Bejder - twitter: @lbejder, @MMRP_UH Popular version of...
Room Design Considerations for Optimal Podcasting
Madeline Didier - mdidier@jaffeholden.com Jaffe Holden, 114-A Washington Street, Norwalk, CT, 06854, United States Twitter: @JaffeHolden Instagram: @jaffeholden Popular version of 1aAA2-Podcast recording room design considerations and best practices, presented at the...
Ultrasonics to monitor liquid metal melt pool dynamics for improving metal 3D printing
Christopher Kube - kube@psu.edu Twitter: @_chriskube Penn State University, 212 Earth and Engineering Sciences Bldg, University Park, PA, 16802, United States Tao Sun, University of Virginia Samuel Clark, Advanced Photon Source, Twitter: @advancedphoton Find the...
Assessment of road surfaces using sound analysis
Andrzej Czyzewski - andcz@multimed.org Multimedia Systems, The Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics, Gdansk University of Technology, Gdansk, Pomorskie, 80-233, Poland Jozef Kotus - Multimedia Systems, The Faculty of Electronics,...
Connecting industry to a more diverse student population
Felicia Doggett - f.doggett@metro-acoustics.com Instagram: @metropolitan_acoustics Metropolitan Acoustics, 1628 JFK Blvd., Suite 1902, Philadelphia, PA, 19103, United States Popular version of 4pED4-Internships in the acoustical disciplines: How can we attract a more...
Artificial intelligence in music production: controversy & opportunity
Joshua Reiss Reiss - joshua.reiss@qmul.ac.uk Twitter: @IntelSoundEng Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London, England, E1 4NS, United Kingdom Popular version of 3aSP1-Artificial intelligence in music production: controversy and opportunity, presented at...
Atom Tones – A periodic table of audible elements
Jill A. Linz - jlinz@skidmore.edu Skidmore College, 815 N. Broadway, Saratoga Springs, NY, 12866, United States Christian Howat Skidmore College, Class of 2022 815 N. Broadway Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 Popular version of 4aMU5-Atom Tones: investigating waveforms and...
Presence of a drone and estimating its range simply from the drone audio emissions
Kaliappan Gopalan - kgopala@pnw.edu Purdue University Northwest, Hammond, IN, 46323, United States Brett Y. Smolenski, North Point Defense, Rome, NY, USA Darren Haddad, Information Exploitation Branch, Air Force Research Laboratory, Rome, NY, USA Popular version of...
Noise Pollution in Hospitals and its Impacts on the Health Care Community and Patients
Olivia C Coiado - coiado@illinois.edu Twitter: @oliviacoiado Instagram: @oliviacoiado Department of Biomedical and Translational Sciences, Carle Illinois College of Medicine, Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois,...
The Impact of Formal Musical Training on Speech Comprehension in Heavily Distracting Environments
Alexandra Bruder - alexandra.l.bruder@vanderbilt.edu Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Department of Anesthesiology, 1211 21st Avenue South, Medical Arts Building, Suite 422, Nashville, TN, 37212, United States Joseph Schlesinger - joseph.j.schlesinger@vumc.org...
A moth’s ear inspires directional passive acoustic structures
Lara Díaz-García - lara.diaz-garcia@strath.ac.uk Twitter: @laradigar23 Instagram: @laradigar Centre for Ultrasonic Engineering, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, G1 1RD, United Kingdom Popular version of 2aSA1-Directional passive acoustic structures...
The safe noise level to prevent hearing loss is probably lower than you think
Daniel Fink - djfink01@aol.com Twitter: @QuietCoalition Board Chair, The Quiet Coalition, 60 Thoreau Street Suite 261, Concord, MA, 01742, United States The Quiet Coalition is a program of Quiet Communities, Inc. Popular version of 3pNS1-What is the safe noise level...
The FAA allows Americans to be exposed to unsafe levels of aircraft noise
Daniel Fink - djfink01@aol.com Twitter: @QuietCoalition Board Chair, The Quiet Coalition, 60 Thoreau Street, Concord, MA, 01742, United States The Quiet Coalition is a program of Quiet Communities, Inc., Lincoln, MA, USA Popular version of 4aNS8-The Federal Aviation...
4pNS2 – Use of virtual reality in designing and developing sonic environment for dementia care facilities
Arezoo Talebzadeh - arezoo.talebzadeh@UGent.bePh.D. StudentGhent UniversityTech Lane Ghent Science Park, 126, B-9052 Gent, Belgium Popular version of 4pNS2 - Use of virtual reality in designing and developing soundscape for dementia care facilitiesPresented in the...
2aNS7 – Directional Processing in Assessment of Wind Turbine Noise
Alexander Sutin -asutin@stevens.eduHady Salloum – hsalloum@stevens.eduAlexander Sedunov- asedunov@steves.eduNikolay Sedunov – nsednov@stevens.edu Stevens Institute of TechnologySensor Technologies & Applied Research (STAR) CenterHoboken, NJ 07030Click here to...
1pAA1 – Analysis and actions required to ensure raceway noise levels are acceptable to the surrounding community
Dr. Bonnie Schnitta, bonnie@soundsense.comSoundSense, LLCWainscott, NY Popular version of 1pAA1 - Actions and mathematical modeling that will bring noise levels from a racetrack or raceway to a level the community will acceptPresented Monday afternoon May 23,...
3pSP4 – Imaging Watermelons
Dr. David Joseph ZartmanZartman Inc., L.L.C.,zartman.david@gmail.comLoveland, Colorado Popular version of 3pSP4 - Imaging watermelonsPresented Wednesday afternoon, May 25, 2022182nd ASA Meeting, DenverClick here to read the abstract When imaging watermelons,...
2aPAa – Three-dimensional wavefront modeling of secondary sonic booms
Dr. Joe Salamone – joe.salamone@boom.aeroBoom Supersonic12876 East Adam CircleCentennial, CO 80112 Popular version of 2aPAan- Three-dimensional wavefront modeling of secondary sonic boomsPresented Tuesday morning, May 24, 2022182nd ASA Meeting, Denver, ColoradoClick...
3aPPb1 – Spectral Processing Deficits Appear to Underlie Developmental Language Disorders
Susan Nittrouer, snittrouer@phhp.ufl.eduJoanna H. LowensteinKayla TellezPriscilla O’HaraDonal G. Sinex Popular version of 3aPPb1 Spectral processing deficits appear to underlie developmental language disordersPresented Wednesday morning, May 25, 2022182nd ASA...
Lay Language Papers organized by meeting
183rd Meeting: Nashville, TN
182nd Meeting: Denver, CO
181st Meeting: Seattle, WA
180th Meeting: Virtual – Acoustics in Focus
179th Meeting: Virtual – Acoustics Virtually Everywhere
178th Meeting: San Diego, CA
177th Meeting: Louisville, KY
176th Meeting: Victoria British, Columbia
175th Meeting: Minneapolis, MN
174th Meeting: New Orleans, LA
173rd Meeting (8th Forum Acusticum): Boston, MA
172nd Meeting (5th Joint Meeting of ASA and ASJ): Honolulu, HI
171st Meeting: Salt lake City, UT
170th Meeting: Jacksonville, FL
169th Meeting: Pittsburgh, PA
168th Meeting: Indianapolis, IN
167th Meeting: Providence, Rhode Island
166th Meeting: San Francisco, California
165th Meeting: Montreal, Canada
164rd Meeting: Kansas City, Missouri
163rd Meeting: Hong Kong, China
162nd Meeting: San Diego, California
161st Meeting: Seattle, Washington
160th Meeting: Cancun, Mexico
159th Meeting: Baltimore, Maryland
158th Meeting: San Antonio, Texas
157th Meeting: Portland, Oregon
156th Meeting: Miami, Florida
155th Meeting: Paris, France
154th Meeting: New Orleans, Louisiana
153rd Meeting: Salt Lake City, Utah
152nd Meeting: Honolulu, Hawaii
151st Meeting: Providence, Rhode Island
150th Meeting: Minneapolis, Minnesota
149th Meeting: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
148th Meeting: San Diego, California
147th Meeting: New York, New York
146th Meeting: Austin, Texas
145th Meeting: Nashville, Tennessee
144th Meeting: Cancun, Mexico
143rd Meeting: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
142nd Meeting: Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
141st Meeting: Chicago, Illinois
140th Meeting: Newport Beach, California
139th Meeting: Atlanta, Georgia
138th Meeting: Columbus, Ohio
137th Meeting: Berlin, Germany
136th Meeting: Norfolk, Virginia
135th Meeting: Seattle, Washington (ICA/ASA ’98)
134th Meeting: San Diego, California
133rd Meeting: State College, Pennsylvania
132nd Meeting: Honolulu, Hawaii
131st Meeting: Indianapolis, Indiana
130th Meeting: St. Louis Missouri