Congratulations to the New Fellows Elected at the Spring 2026 Meeting, Shigeto Furukawa, Francesco Martelletta, Jonathan Mamou, and Joseph F. Vignola! More at https://acousticalsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Spring-2026-Fellows.pdf

The Summer 2023 cover of Acoustics Today features an illustration of the gravitational waves emanating from binary black holes, from “The ‘Sounds’ of Black Holes” by Delilah E. A. Gates (page 21). Read the issue at https://acousticstoday.org/volume-19-2023/ Image credit: LIGO/T. Pyle.

From Wagner’s Rhine to jazz, funk, and ceremonial fanfares, brass instruments shape unforgettable musical moments. This accessible, illustrated book explores their history, science, sound, and evolution from the Celtic carnyx to modern trumpets, trombones, horns, and tubas. https://ow.ly/gTyR50Z78SE

SPECIAL ISSUE: ECOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON HEARING How do hearing loss and hearing aid use affect environmental sound ratings in laboratory and real-world contexts? https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0044116

What's in OMB's proposed Uniform Guidance rewrite, and what does it mean for federally funded research? AIP is breaking down the proposal in a webinar, with a live audience Q&A. June 17, 4 PM EDT Register: bit.ly/3QivC75

SPECIAL ISSUE: ECOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON HEARING Quantifying the effect of forest edge on tropical fauna using explainable ecoacoustics metrics https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0043951

What Emotion Catches Your Ear’s Attention? How anxiety affects what you hear https://acoustics.org/what-emotion-catches-your-ears-attention-how-anxiety-affects-what-you-hear/

The Spring 2023 cover of Acoustics Today features a schematic of zebrafish life stages, from “Zebrafish as a Key to Unlocking Human Genetic Diseases of Hearing” by Erin Jimenez and Ashwin A. Bhandiwad. Issue at https://acousticstoday.org/volume-19-2023/ Journal cover created with BioRender.com.

SPECIAL ISSUE: BAYESIAN METHODS IN ACOUSTICAL SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING Learning the relationship between operating condition and flame response from acoustic data https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0043841

SPECIAL ISSUE: ECOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON HEARING Hearing natural animal sounds: Human emotional valence appraisal is strongly linked with auditory roughness perception https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0043952

Evaluation of geophysical and anthropogenic sources of hydroacoustic noise in the Alaskan arctic https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0044094

Sonidos de guitarra: de las vibraciones de la madera a una mini planta de energí https://acousticstoday.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Guitar-Torres-FINAL-SPANISH.pdf

EDITOR'S PICK Toward harmonizing ultrasound-based cortical bone characterization: A comparison of attenuation measurement techniques https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0043816

ATTENTION STUDENTS! Did you present at the Philly meeting? Submit to the POMA Student Paper Competition! You can win $300 and have your research featured on our podcast, Across Acoustics! Learn more: https://ow.ly/8HmQ50YUwwo 2 days left to submit! Deadline 14 June 2026.

A finite solid impedance matching mechanism with large bandwidth for acoustic transmission between water and air https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0044117

E.F.F. Chladni’s pioneering studies of sound and vibration helped shape modern acoustics. This volume is the 1st complete English translation of his expanded 1809 French Traité d’Acoustique, cross-referenced with the 1802 German edition and translated by Robert T. Beyer. https://ow.ly/HMaB50Z78uG

REFLECTIONS This month's Reflection looks back on "Speech Analysis and Synthesis by Linear Prediction of the Speech Wave Available to Purchase" by B. S. Atal and S. L. Hanauer. Read this seminal article that impacted researcher's ability to analyze and synthesize speech: https://ow.ly/6tYt50Z6RWh

Optimizing typical wall and floor constructions for sound insulation performance and Global Warming Potential https://doi.org/10.1121/2.0002330

Underwater acoustic target recognition with scarce data: a generative–discriminative framework using a variational autoencoder for latent space completion. It reconstructs more continuous class structure, improving few-shot robustness under complex ocean noise conditions. https://ow.ly/T2FE50Z6iMK

This work shows that micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) sensors are as effective as the reference accelerometer and microphones for measuring diesel engine cylinder noise and vibration, thereby assisting in detecting faults and predicting failures in the machine's life: https://ow.ly/aopA50Z6RPn

This POMA presents a method to reconstruct impulse responses of Roman theatre in Aspendos using Python: https://doi.org/10.1121/2.0002326

SPECIAL ISSUE: ECOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON HEARING Data-driven sampling strategies for fine-tuning bird detection models https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0043947

SPECIAL ISSUE: GENERATIVE AND PHYSICS-INFORMED AI This work proposes a noise-aware, physics-consistent neural deconvolution for active sonar beamforming maps: https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0044118

Check out the JASA study from 2022! Acoustic localization, validation, and characterization of Rice's whale calls doi.org/10.1121/10.0...

REFLECTIONS This month's Reflection looks back on a pivotal article that detailed a method for representing speech signals based on principles of linear predictive coding. Learn about its lasting impact: https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0044102

ATTENTION STUDENTS! Did you present at the Philly meeting? Submit to the POMA Student Paper Competition! You can win $300 and have your research featured on our podcast, Across Acoustics! Learn more: https://acousticalsociety.org/philadelphia-poma-student-paper-competition/ Deadline 14 June 2026.

The May cover of JASA EL may be the cutest we've ever featured! It includes a photo of Mongolian gerbils by Yuta Tamai, lead author of "Evaluation of the effect of long-term pulsed laser irradiation on cochlear function in Mongolian gerbils (Meriones unguiculatus)." https://ow.ly/wg4k50Z5jif

...how would one pronounce a glottal stop at the beginning of a word? Such is the case in Hawaiian, which writes the sound with the consonant “‘okina.” https://doi.org/10.1063/10.0043940

The beautiful photo featured on the May cover of JASA was provided by Dale Stokes of Scripps Institution of Oceanography, one of the coauthors of the featured article, "Potential energy of air bubbles in glacier ice and its conversion into acoustic energy" https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0043866.

Happy Dinosaur Day! 🦖 What did dinosaurs actually sound like? Researchers are using acoustic models to recreate the voice of the Parasaurolophus millions of years later. Watch the press conference video to hear more about the quest to re-create dinosaur sounds. https://ow.ly/s3UI50Z4Hg6

Auditory regularity detection in the ferret https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0043920

Congratulations to the winners of the 2026 Student Design Competition! 🏆 First Honors: Leaf by Aleksandra Sawczuk, Karolina Gródek, & Szymon Kasprzyk (AGH University of Krakow & Cracow University of Technology) See all the winning student designs at https://ow.ly/Lo0750Z58vv

These researchers aimed to estimate the acoustic properties and their spatial variability on the New England Mud Patch using data collected during the Seabed Characterization Experiment 2017: https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0043874

To understand how people perceive the tiny timing differences that drive groove-based music, Câmara et al. measured participant responses to two musical timing concepts crucial to groove: asynchrony and non-isochrony. https://doi.org/10.1063/10.0044122

Room acoustics for classical halls, practice, theory and music: Nobody knows the sound of a C80 https://doi.org/10.1121/2.0002325

SPECIAL ISSUE: ECOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON HEARING Object and setting identification in natural auditory scenes https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0043922

Dynamic 3D MRI of vocal fold oscillations: In vivo assessment of vocal fold thickness, contact area, and glottal area waveform across phonation types in comparison with high-speed imaging https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0043582

ATTENTION STUDENTS! Did you present at the Philly meeting? Submit to the POMA Student Paper Competition! You can win $300 and have your research featured on our podcast, Across Acoustics! Learn more: https://acousticalsociety.org/philadelphia-poma-student-paper-competition/ Deadline 14 June 2026.

SPECIAL ISSUE: SOUND ABSORPTION AND DIFFUSION Bringing together 13 peer-reviewed articles from leading research groups, this collection showcases the latest advances in the prediction, measurement, and design of absorptive and diffusive surfaces. Introduction here: https://ow.ly/7x3I50Z4GuP

Tracking ships with submarine cables: Unsupervised arrival time detection and event localization using distributed acoustic sensing https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0043844

SPECIAL ISSUE: ECOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON HEARING Ecological soundscapes viewed through auditory cortical representations https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0043913

Can a video game teach the physics of sound? 🎧 Explore our Minecraft lesson plan where students build virtual rooms, calculate reverberation time (RT60), and hear how materials like carpet or concrete change the acoustics in real-time! https://ow.ly/ilIv50Z4sFQ #ASA190 #Acoustics #STEM #Minecraft

EDITOR'S PICK A model for a lipid-coated microbubble based on transient network theory https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0043845.

Researchers developed two different kits to teach children acoustic concepts. In one, children could construct a smartphone stand that amplifies the phone's sound. In the other, they constructed vocal tract models using everyday objects like bottles and straws. Learn more https://ow.ly/QM4c50Z4sKT

How frequently the audience returns to a venue to hear beautiful music will be determined mainly by the acoustic experience. Come learn how natural rock formations helped shape an outdoor amphitheater. https://ow.ly/RSkm50Z0zVg #ASA190

Why do polymer oboe reeds feel different? Our study makes the reed’s fast motion visible, showing that polymer and cane reeds can vibrate in different ways. https://acoustics.org/why-do-polymer-oboe-reeds-feel-different/ #ASA190

A new standard for assessing pickleball noise has been developed to better reflect how people actually experience the sound, especially in neighborhoods near courts. https://acoustics.org/a-recommended-noise-standard-for-pickleball/ #ASA190

Nature's best remedy doesn't always come from complete silence and floral breezes. Sometimes it comes from steam, sulfur, and the steady roar of falling water. https://acoustics.org/waterfall-sounds-and-sulfur-scent-shape-a-uniquely-relaxing-soundscape/ #ASA190

Tiny, hand-sized components that block sound in modern systems can now be tested at their true scale; thanks to a novel small reverberation chamber that brings sound transmission loss measurement in line with today’s designs. https://ow.ly/2yTA50Z0yO6 #ASA190

Using particle motion to estimate sediment properties https://acoustics.org/using-particle-motion-to-estimate-sediment-properties/ #ASA190