May 2024 JASA Cover

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

The cover image overlays a mode of a soundboard calculated using finite element modelling onto an image of a piano. The figure comes from “Influence of soundboard modelling approaches on piano string vibration,” by Pablo Miranda Valiente, Giacomo Squicciarini, and David J. Thompson. JASA Coordinating Editor for Musical Acoustics Andrew Morrison says,“This article compares four different approaches to modeling a piano soundboard which is coupled to vibrating strings. The authors explore how complex a soundboard model needs to be to effectively characterize the main features of the string-soundboard interaction.”

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

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/155/5.

May JASA Cover

Popular Social Media Posts – May

The month of May has flown by! Let’s look back at some content that captured the attention of the acoustics community on different social media platforms. These posts sparked engagement and ignited discussions around acoustics research!

First up, a JASA post on Facebook highlighted a paper that presents the most complete description currently available of how femininity and masculinity in a voice is manifested in the acoustic signal. Read the article at https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0025932.

Social Media Facebook May

Facebook

Over on Instagram, an image featuring the ASA Press cover of The Science of Musical Sound Volume 1: Stringed Instruments, Pipe Organs, and the Human Voice received over 45 likes. You can get the book at https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-92796-1.

Social Media Instagram May

Instagram

Then, folks on LinkedIn liked the post highlighting ASA awardees’ publications. Read the Propagations blog post at https://acoustics.org/asa-spring-award-recipients-publications/.

Social Media LinkedIn May

LinkedIn

Lastly, on the JASA Express Letters Twitter (X) account, a post about the paper “Predicting underwater acoustic transmission loss in the SOFAR channel from ray trajectories via deep learning” got a lot of love. Read it at https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0025976.

Social Media Twitter May

Twitter (X)

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Call for Papers for JASA and JASA Express Letters

JASA Special Issue call for papers

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (JASA) and JASA Express Letters are calling for papers for joint Special Issues.

Authors have the option to select which journal they would like to submit a paper to for a Special Issue. Accepted papers will be published in the next available regular issue of the selected journal and identified as belonging to the Special Issue. After all papers have published for the Special Issue, they will be included in a cross-journal online collection at the JASA and JASA Express Letters websites.

The following are open call for papers for joint Special Issues. Information on current call for papers are always available here: JASA and JASA Express Letters

Assessing Sediment Heterogeneity on Continental Shelves and Slopes
This Special Issue presents recent advances in experimental measurements, theoretical models, and application of information-based signal processing and machine learning to assess the degree to which seabed heterogeneity can be characterized. …Read More!
Guest Editors: David Knobles, Preston Wilson, Tracianne Neilsen, Ying Tsong Lin
Deadline: July 1, 2024

 

Advances in Soundscape: Emerging Trends and Challenges in Research and Practice
This Special Issue invites submissions that focus on the human perception of sounds in built or natural environments, or the impacts that human activities can have on those, and help advancing the field either theoretically or methodologically. …Read More!
Guest Editors: Francesco Aletta, Bhan Lam, Cynthia Tarlao, Tin Oberman, Andrew Mitchell
Deadline: July 31, 2024

 

Active and Tunable Acoustic Metamaterials
This Special Issue invites all manuscripts exploring new active and tunable acoustic or elastodynamic metamaterials. …Read More!
Guest Editors: Michael R. Haberman, Christina Naify, Bogdan Popa, Serife Tol
Deadline: September 30, 2024

 

Climate Change: How the Sound of the Planet Reflects the Health of the Planet
Recognizing the urgency of the climate crisis, this Special Issue invites papers investigating efforts to monitor and mitigate the environmental, economic, and social disruption threatened by an increasingly warm planet. …Read More!
Guest Editors: Megan S. Ballard, Edward J. Walsh, Lauren A. Freeman, Daniel T. Blumstein, Ying Tsong Lin
Deadline: December 31, 2024

 

Wave phenomena in Periodic, Near-Periodic, and Locally Resonant Systems
This Special Issue presents recent advances on periodic, near-periodic, and locally resonant vibroacoustic systems, covering fundamental aspects of the theory of multiple wave scattering to experimental studies that demonstrate performance and potential applications of the systems. …Read More!
Guest Editors: Vladislav Sorokin, Luke Bennetts, Nicole Kessissoglou, Alex Skvortsov
Deadline: December 31, 2024

 

Special Issue: Advanced Air Mobility Noise: Predictions, Measurements, and Perception
This Special Issue covers tools, technologies, ground/flight testing, human response and metrics, and regulation and policy related to advanced air mobility (AAM) vehicle noise. …Read More!
Guest Editors: Matthew Boucher, Alexandra Loubeau, Beckett Zhou, Eric Greenwood, Damiano Casalino
Deadline: February 28, 2025

New Across Acoustics Episode: We Don’t All Talk the Same– Teaching Linguistic Diversity

Speech Science courses are a key component to the curriculum within a variety of disciplines, but coursework is frequently lacking in terms of representation of those from different cultural and linguistic backgrounds. In this episode, we talk to Melissa Baese-Berk (University of Chicago) and Paul Reed (University of Alabama), about why it’s so important for instructors to use a variety of voices in the classroom, and how to talk about other ways of speaking when one feels ill-equipped to do so.

Like the episode? Check out the related article!

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April 2024 JASA Cover

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:

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.

March JASA cover