POMA Using municipal zoning ordinances to manage pickleball noise near homes https://doi.org/10.1121/2.0002249

The 190th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America is almost here! The preregistration deadline is 13 April 2026: https://acousticalsociety.org/philadelphia-registration If your preregistration is not received by 13 April, you will need to register on-site.

Did you know rocket sounds travel differently depending on the time of year? Atmospheric acoustics helps explain when (and why) you hear sonic booms: https://acoustics.org/how-the-season-affects-if-you-hear-a-sonic-boom-during-rocket-ascent/ #RocketScience #SoundPhysics #Goddard100

JASA EXPRESS LETTERS Falcon 9 ascent sonic boom measurements in Ventura County, California https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0043007

JASA-EL EDITOR'S PICK Mud sound speed profile constraints from sub-bottom arrival times https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0043016

💡 Let’s make the ASA meeting accessible together! If you have accessibility needs, send them by 30 March 2026 so we can plan support. Include your name, contact info, and details, and we’ll work with you directly: [email protected]

Join the ASA SF Bay Area Chapter on March 18 at 6 PM for a tour of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music Civic Center campus hosted by Jason O’Connell, Director of Recording Services. RSVP at https://sfbarcasa.org Space is limited!

Congratulations to the Fall 2025 and Spring 2026 Award Recipients! Awards will be presented at the spring 2026 meeting of the Acoustical Society of America 11-15 May 2026 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. https://acousticalsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Awards-press-release-2026.pdf

We’re pleased to welcome NAVAIR as a new ASA Standards Organizational Member! We look forward to their participation in advancing voluntary consensus standards in acoustics. Learn more about membership: https://asastandards.org/membership/ #Acoustics #Standards

JASA EDITOR'S PICK A multi-sound-path approach for modeling thermal-induced artifacts in ultrasound imaging https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0042752

🎶 Students in architecture, acoustics & engineering: enter the ASA Student Design Competition! Design a 13,000-seat music pavilion with acoustics at the core. 🏆 Up to $3,000 in awards. 📅 Register by March 30, 2026. Details at https://acousticalsociety.org/philadelphia-student-design-competition

The 2025 science communication winners demonstrated the power of storytelling, technology, and creativity to make acoustics accessible and unforgettable: https://acoustics.org/acoustical-society-of-america-announces-2025-science-communication-award-winners/

How loud is NASA’s Space Launch System? Loud enough that acoustics plays a critical role in vehicle design, safety, and success. Listen to Across Acoustics to find out: https://www.buzzsprout.com/admin/1537384/episodes/12979960-how-loud-is-nasa-s-space-launch-system #RocketSound #Goddard100 #NASA

POMA Towards a unified distribution model for randomly scattered sound https://doi.org/10.1121/2.0002250

POMA This article describes the acoustical oceanography curriculum at the University of Texas at Austin: https://doi.org/10.1121/2.0002240

ASA PRESS This book presents the latest developments in soundscape theory and practice and combines smart growth concepts, urban design and soundscape for the first-time. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-22779-0

POMA Using music and acoustics to motivate math learning https://doi.org/10.1121/2.0002239

JASA-EL EDITOR'S PICK This study explores a pruning technique based on the singular value decomposition for both real- and complex-valued recurrent neural networks: https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0042761

JASA-EL EDITOR'S PICK Evidence for spatial variability in the geoacoustic parameters of the Atlantis II seamount flanks https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0042408

🎨🔊 Call for Submissions: Gallery of Acoustics (ASA) Submit a short video to the 20th Gallery of Acoustics at the 190th ASA Meeting and showcase the art & science of computational acoustics. 🗓 Apr 13 (intent) | Apr 27 (final) Details at https://acousticalsociety.org/philadelphia-gallery-of-acoustics/

JASA EDITOR'S PICK Two-dimensional flexural wave vortices based on ring-shaped and partitioned acoustic black hole metasurface https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0042754

JASA Researchers from Germany’s Technical University of Berlin found that the color of a concert hall has an impact on the sound perception of a listener. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0042275

People still ask: Was Saturn V really that loud? ASA researchers broke it down - decibels, distance, and why it still matters today. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0013216 #RocketSound #Goddard100

JASA EDITOR'S PICK A physics-based low-order filter approximation for scattering from a rigid sphere https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0042226

Congratulations to the new Fellows elected at the Fall 2025 Meeting! https://acousticalsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Fall_2025_fellows.pdf

Happy #WorldWildlifeDay! The theme is Medicinal and Aromatic Plants 🌿 In “Bearing Fruit – Plant Bioacoustics is Blossoming” (Winter 2019), author Aaron M. Thode explores the growing field of research asking: Do plants transmit, generate, or respond to sound? https://doi.org/10.1121/AT.2019.15.4.47

JASA EXPRESS LETTERS The February JASA-EL cover features a diagram of a piezoelectric cell for observing a piezoelectric signal generated in cancellous bone by ultrasound irradiation with a device for observing an ultrasound signal propagated through the bone. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0042394

On March 16, 1926, Robert Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket. That 41-foot flight sparked a century of innovation and some of the loudest sounds humans have ever made. https://acousticstoday.org/from-sputnik-to-spacex-60-years-of-rocket-launch-acoustics-caroline-p-lubert/ #Goddard100

ASA PRESS This open access book tackles the design of 3D spatial interactions in an audio-centered and audio-first perspective, providing the fundamental notions related to the creation and evaluation of immersive sonic experiences. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-04021-4

JASA New cover! The feature image was created by Tyce Olaveson, the lead author of the article, "Sound power from a collection of monopoles with arbitrary coherence: Theory and application to aeroacoustic noise sources." You can read the article at https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0042361!

🎓✨ Students — This One’s for You! ✨🎓 Are you planning to attend the 190th ASA Meeting in Philadelphia? Don’t let travel costs hold you back, there are funding opportunities available to help you get there! https://acousticalsociety.org/philadelphia-funding-opportunities/

POMA Performance of a random forest classifier on auditory brainstem responses to echo glint structure https://doi.org/10.1121/2.0002246

Register for Sonic Connexions - Listening at Scale: Edge and Cloud Computing for Large Bioacoustic Datasets with Dr. David Mann, Loggerhead Instruments 🗓️ Date: Thursday, March 5, 2026 🕒 Time: 4:00 PM (Brazil/Argentina time, UTC -3) https://whoi-edu.zoom.us/meeting/register/Td2bKuFKQCGVxSnlP4zyuA

The James E. West Fellowship supports graduate-level study in acoustics. West's career, driven by his own experience with systemic barriers, embodies ASA’s commitment to broad and accessible inquiry into acoustics. Application due 23 March. https://acousticalsociety.org/fellowships-and-scholarships/

REFLECTIONS Don't miss the seminal article that's the subject of this month's Reflection,"Sound Transmission through Double Panels Using Statistical Energy Analysis," by A. J. Price and M. J. Crocker! https://doi.org/10.1121/1.1911951

ACOUSTICS TODAY Musical psychoacoustics has the ambitious goal of reverse engineering music perception by relating the perceptual implications of music to the acoustical properties of music signals. Read Musical Psychoacoustics: The Science of Sound Artifice https://doi.org/10.1121/AT.2025.21.2.59

The Committee on Women in Acoustics is offering $500 subsidies to help offset dependent care costs for the Philadelphia meeting. Deadline: March 27, 2026 Eligible: Presenters or ASA leaders (all genders) One award per dependent/group https://acousticalsociety.org/philadelphia-funding-opportunities

POMA These work presents a matched pair of acoustic holograms for therapy and monitoring in transcranial ultrasound. This passive beamforming strategy offers a practical route to localized, low-cost monitoring of cavitation-based therapies. https://doi.org/10.1121/2.0002196

Let’s make the ASA meeting accessible together! If you have accessibility needs, send them by 30 March 2026 so we can plan support. Include your name, contact info, and details, and we’ll work with you directly: [email protected]

ACROSS ACOUSTICS Can AI teach people how to speak better? In this episode, we talk with @mixedlinguist.bsky.social about some issues that can arise with the use of new technologies that are designed to evaluate users' speech. www.buzzsprout.com/1537384/epis...

POMA Hemoglobin microbubbles enable ultrasound to sense oxygen levels, paving the way for real-time, acoustic blood oxygen level dependent imaging using clinical scanners. https://doi.org/10.1121/2.0002224

ASA PRESS Understanding Acoustics: An Experimentalist’s View of Sound and Vibration is an open access book that provides graduate-level treatment of acoustics and vibration suitable for use in courses, for self-study, and as a reference https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-44787-8

JASA EXPRESS LETTERS Clear speech led to shorter reaction times—but not improved intelligibility—in Mandarin fricative perception, highlighting processing speed as an important yet underrecognized dimension of clear-speech's benefit. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0042407

JASA EXPRESS LETTERS A Bayes factor high-frequency broadband active sonar discriminant expansion via depth invariant modes https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0042317

The Daoma and Murray Strasberg Scholarship awards one scholarship to a U.S.-enrolled PhD student researching naval-relevant ocean acoustics, related physical or marine structural acoustics, or signal processing. Apply by 23 March 2026. https://acousticalsociety.org/fellowships-and-scholarships/

JASA EXPRESS LETTERS Development of a device for simultaneous observation of piezoelectric and ultrasound signals in cancellous bone https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0042394

No ears, no problem. The tobacco hornworm caterpillar can detect airborne sound via microscopic hairs on its body, according to a team at Binghamton University: https://phys.org/news/2026-01-caterpillars-tiny-body-hairs-microphones.html Research presented at the 6th Joint Meeting ASA and ASJ

Register for Sonic Connexions - Listening at Scale: Edge and Cloud Computing for Large Bioacoustic Datasets with Dr. David Mann, Loggerhead Instruments 🗓️ Date: Thursday, March 5, 2026 🕒 Time: 4:00 PM (Brazil/Argentina time, UTC -3) https://whoi-edu.zoom.us/meeting/register/Td2bKuFKQCGVxSnlP4zyuA

REFLECTIONS This month's Reflection looks back on A. J. Price and M. J. Crocker's application of the statistical energy analysis (SEA) method to double panels, a critical and challenging case for SEA. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0042351

ACOUSTICS TODAY How do fish localize sound sources? Read "The Enigma of Sound Source Localization by Fishes" at https://doi.org/10.1121/AT.2025.21.2.49