OTTAWA, Ontario, May 3, 2024 – The Acoustical Society of America and the Canadian Acoustical Association will host three press conferences Tuesday, May 14, in room 105 of the Shaw Centre/Westin Ottawa Hotel. The in-person presentations will also be livestreamed and recorded. (Full schedule below.)
Press conference topics will focus on a wide range of newsworthy sessions from the upcoming meeting, which runs May 13-17 and aligns with Acoustics Week in Canada. Featured sessions include navigating community challenges with pickleball noise, examining abnormal gas in accidentally caught sea turtles with ultrasound, and altering the environment to reduce noise in a hair salon.
Press releases for a selection of topics will be shared under embargo the week of May 6 and conference highlights can be found on social media by searching the #ASA186 hashtag.
To register for in-person attendance, email
media@aip.org. To join press conferences virtually, please visit
our registration page. Video recordings of the press conference sessions will be available upon request.
ASA186 Press Conference Schedule – Tuesday, May 14, 9 a.m., 11 a.m., and 2 p.m. EDT
Learn more about these and all other meeting sessions via
ASA's meeting page and in the
technical program. (topics/times subject to change)
9:00 a.m. EDT
- Making Every Hair Appointment a Sound Experience – Donna Ellis, Lines by Nature LLC
Session 2pAAa8: An analysis and retrofit of the acoustics at Image Creators Health and Beauty Salon, Tuesday, May 14, 3:00 p.m. EDT
- Intense Ultrasound Extracts Genetic Info for Less Invasive Cancer Biopsies – Roger Zemp, University of Alberta
Session 1aBAa2: Releasing Genetic Biomarkers from Cells and Tissues with Ultrasound, Monday, May 13, 8:30 a.m. EDT
11:00 a.m. EDT
- Catch and Release Can Give Sea Turtles the Bends – Katherine Eltz, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Session 1pBAa12: Analysis of gas evolution in the heart, liver and kidney of turtles presenting with gas embolic pathology based on ultrasonography, Monday, May 13, 4:00 p.m. EDT
- Analyzing Androgynous Characteristics in an Emperor Penguin Courtship Call – Kerri Seger, Applied Ocean Sciences
Session 3aAB9: Characteristics of courtship calls that could provide clues to physiological state or genetics of the emperor penguin, Aptenodytes forsteri: A case study of analysis using the Teager-Kaiser energy operator, Wednesday, May 15, 10:15 a.m. EDT
- To Sound like a Hockey Player, Speak like a Canadian – Andrew Bray, University of Rochester
Session 4aSCa2: Acoustics and ice hockey: The sociophonetic impact of Canadian English on American-born players, Thursday, May 16, 8:25 a.m. EDT
2:00 p.m. EDT
- Courtship Through Flute Song in Indigenous Southern Plains Culture – Paula Conlon, University of Oklahoma
Session 2aMU4: Power and good music: The Indigenous southern plains flute tradition, Tuesday, May 14, 9:45 a.m. EDT
- Spider Silk Sound System – Ronald Miles, Binghamton University
Session 4aPA6: Sensing viscous acoustic flow: Using spider silk to hear, Thursday, May 16, 10:00 a.m. EDT
- Pickleball Courts in a Legal Pickle – Charles Leahy
Session 5aNS3: Improving the Persuasiveness of the Noise Consultant Report - A Critique and Proposal, Friday, May 17, 8:35 a.m. EDT
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