A number of ASA Technical Committees offer Best Paper Awards to students and early career members who present at ASA meetings. More information about these awards can be found on the ASA website’s Funding Sources page. Below, the results of the Best Paper Awards for each Technical Committee that participated at the ASA Victoria 2018 meeting are listed:
Acoustical Oceanography
First: Elizabeth F. Weidner, University of New Hampshire
4pAO1. Broadband acoustic observations of individual naturally occurring hydrate-coated bubbles in the Gulf of Mexico’’
Second: Emma Reeves Ozanich, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
2aAO4. Ocean acoustic range estimation in noisy environments using convolutional networks
Animal Bioacoustics
First: Mikala Epp, University of Manitoba
5pAB8. Investigation of the context of humpback whale non-song calls in the North Atlantic
Second: Youenn Jézéquel, CNRS
1pAB10. Buzzing sounds used as a mean of intra-specific interaction during agonistic encounters in male European lobsters (Homarus gammarus)?
Architectural Acoustics
First: Matthew Neal, Pennsylvania State University
4aAA4. The room impulse response in time, frequency, and space: mapping spatial energy using spherical array beamforming techniques
Second: Byeongho Jo, Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
3pEA4. Estimation of the source distance using the multiple three-dimensional acoustic intensimetry
Engineering Acoustics
First: In-Jee Jung, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
3pEA4. Estimation of the source distance using the multiple three-dimensional acoustic intensimetry
Musical Acoustics
First: Iran Sanadzadeh, University of Adelaide
Heuristic finite element models of the Japanese Koto
Second (tie): Timothy Greer, University of Southern California
3aMU5. How beatboxers produce percussion sounds: A real-time magnetic resonance imaging investigation
Jack D. Gabriel, Rollins College
4aMU6. Studying the clarinet with an artificial mouth: Comparison of playing frequencies between model and measurement
Noise
Kristi M. Ward, Northwestern University
4aNS7. Investigating individual susceptibility to the detrimental effects of
background noise and reverberation in simulated complex acoustic
environments
Sarah E. Yoho, Utah State University
4aNS6. Relationship between perception of speech in noise and disordered speech: Influence of sensorineural hearing loss
Seonghun Im, Yonsei University
2aNS10. Characterization of laptop computer noise and vibration using nearfield acoustic holography
Physical Acoustics
No awards made
Signal Processing in Acoustic
First: Tyler Flynn, University of Michigan
5aSP2. Two-dimensional high-resolution acoustic localization of distributed coherent sources for structural health monitoring
Speech Communication
First: Dolly Goldenberg, Yale University
2pSC25. Concurrent Aero-Tactile Stimulation Does Not Bias Perception of VOT for Non-Initial Stops
Second: Michael Rollins, University of Cincinnati
4aSC34: Nasal Rustle: An Evidence-Based Description, Part II
Structural Acoustics and Vibration
First: Caleb Goates, Brigham Young University
3pSA4. A quasi-analytical formulation for acoustic radiation modes of simple curved structures
Second: Mark Cops, Boston University
2aSA5. Finite element modeling of fluid-saturated metallic foams from micro-computed tomography
Underwater Acoustics
First: Gabriel R Venegas, University of Texas at Austin
3aUWa6. Geoacoustic properties of seagrass-bearing sediments
Second: Alexander Scott Douglass, University of Michigan
2aUW3. Out-of-band beamforming in shallow water with horizontal arrays