ASA Bestows Awards in Nashville

At the 145th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, which took place in Tennessee recently, five individuals were recognized for their contributions to the field.

Richard H. Lyon received ASA’s top honor, the Gold Medal. Lyon, professor emeritus of mechanical engineering at MIT and president of RH Lyon Corp in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was recognized for his “sustained leadership and ex-tensive contributions in the application of statistical concepts to structural acoustics and noise.”

The R. Bruce Lindsay Award went to Dani Byrd for her “research in motor control and timing in speech production.” Byrd is an associate professor of linguistics at the University of Southern California.

Brian C. J. Moore, the professor of auditory perception in the department of experimental psychology at the University of Cambridge, received the Silver Medal in Psychological and Physiological Acoustics. Moore was honored for his “contributions to understanding human auditory perception, especially the perceptual consequences of peripheral frequency analysis in normal and impaired listeners.”

The society’s Helmholtz–Rayleigh Interdisciplinary Silver Medal was presented to Arthur B. Baggeroer for his “applications of model-based signal processing to underwater acoustics and for contributions to Arctic acoustics.” He is the Ford Professor of Engineering and the Secretary of the Navy/Chief of Naval Operations Chair for Ocean Science in the departments of ocean and electrical engineering at MIT.

“The development of underwater sound measurements to determine rainfall rate and type at sea” garnered the Medwin Prize in Acoustical Oceanography for Jeffrey A. Nystuen, principal oceanographer in the air–sea remote sensing group at the University of Washington’s applied physics lab in Seattle.