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Student Interests Congratulations to Philip Gillett and Claire Debever, first and second prize winners at the Salt Lake City Meeting, June 2007! Underwater Acoustics Technical Committee Student Representative Go to the ASA Student Website ASA Student Paper Award Previous Award Recipients Graduate Funding Opportunities Underwater Acoustics TC Student Representative Andy Ganse Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington E-mail Andy Best Student Paper Award The Underwater Acoustics Technical committee is one of several technical committees that offers a best student paper award to students who present papers at Society meetings. If you want your paper to be considered for an award, you must indicate this when you submit your abstract. Award Amounts For each of the Technical Committees granting awards, up to two awards will be presented to students presenting papers in sessions organized by the specific Technical Committee: $300 for first prize and $200 for second prize. Qualifications To qualify for each of these awards, the author must: Be enrolled as a student at least half time (graduates are eligible if the work being presented was performed as a student within one year of the meeting). Note that you do not need to be a member of the ASA to qualify. Be listed as the first author on the submitted abstract. Present the paper at the meeting. Submit a copy of the presentation materials or a written text to the copy center at the meeting, unless the paper is presented in a poster session (except for entries in Speech Communication and Underwater Acoustics). Selection The award winners will be selected by a subcommittee of each of the Technical Committees granting awards, based upon the quality of both the content of the paper and its presentation. The awards are usually announced after the close of the meeting. Application All those who wish to participate in the competition for these awards must indicate their intention by putting the following statement at the bottom of the abstract submitted for the meeting:         "For Underwater Acoustic Technical Committee Best Student Paper Award" Other Technical Committees that offer this award are: Acoustical Oceanography, Animal Bioacoustics, Biomedical Ultrasound/Bioresponse to Vibration, Engineering Acoustics, Musical Acoustics, Physical Acoustics, Speech Communication, Structural Acoustics and Vibration. Latest Award Recipients Salt Lake City Meeting, June 2007 First Prize: Philip Gillett,Virginia Tech Presentation title: Advantages of using diffracting cylinders and spheres in acoustic arrays Second Prize Clair Debever, Scripps Institute of Oceanography Presentation title: Coherent-broadband, white noise constraint, matched-field processing Previous Award Recipients Honolulu Meeting, November 2006 First Prize: Claire Debever, Scripps Institute of Oceanography Presentation title: Higher frequency matched field processing Second Prize Andrew A. Ganse, University of Washington Presentation title: Adapting results in filtering theory to inverse theory, to address the statistics of nonlinear geoacoustic inverse problems Providence Meeting, June 2006 First Prize: Kevin James, University of Michigan Presentation title: Approximating acoustic field uncertainty in underwater sound channels Second Prize Jason D. Holmes, Boston University Presentation title: Shallow water waveguide characterization using an autonomous underwater vehicle towed hydrophone array Minneapolis Meeting, October 2005 First Prize: Weichang Li, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Presentation title: Identification of rapidly time-varying acoustic communication channels Second Prize Jason D. Holmes, Boston University Presentation title: An autonomous underwater vehicle technique for in-situ waveguide characterization Vancouver Meeting, May 2005 First Prize: Alexander O. MacGillivray, University of Victoria Presentation title: An Acoustic modeling study of airgun noise from seismic surveys performed offshore British Columbia Second Prize Jie Yang, Georgia Institute of Technology Presentation title: Influence of internal waves on vertical coherence of sound propagation in the East China Sea San Diego Meeting, November 2004 First Prize: Elizabeth T. Kusel, Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst. Presentation title: A single-scattering solution that handles large contrasts across interfaces Second Prize Alexander O. MacGillivray, University of Victoria Presentation title: An airgun array source signature model for environmental impact assessments New York City Meeting, May 2004 First Prize: Jed Wilber, Boston University Presentation title: Development of a submersible baffled impedance tube for characterization of bubbly fluids Second Prize Shawn Johnson, Applied Research Laboratory, Penn State University Presentation title: Resolution cell size effects on the statistics of seafloor backscatter Austin Meeting, November 2003 First Prize: Geoff Edelmann, Marine Physical Laboratory, Scripps Institution of Oceanography Presentation title: The stability of the time-reversal process in a fluctuating ocean Second Prize Donald Outing, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Presentation title: Geoacoustic characterization of a range dependent environment using towed array data Graduate Funding Opportunities National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship Fellowships from the U.S. Office of Naval Research Ocean Engineering and Instrumentation Fellowship Program