Acoustical Society of America#Discontinued publications

In the summer of 1928,{{cite book|author=Cavanaugh, William J.|author2=Tocci, Gregory C.|author3=Wilkes, Joseph A.|chapter=A timeline of some significant events in architectural acoustics since Sabine's pioneering work at the Fogg Museum Lecture Hall|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ktkrzNp8zCAC&pg=PT57| pages=38–39 |isbn=9780470190524 | title=Architectural Acoustics: Principles and Practice | date=16 November 2009 | publisher=John Wiley & Sons }} (See Wallace Clement Sabine.) Floyd R. Watson and Wallace Waterfall (1900–1974),{{cite journal|author=Beyer, Robert T.|author-link=Robert T. Beyer|title=Obituary. Wallace Waterfall|journal=Physics Today|date=November 1974|volume=27|issue=11|pages=79, 81, & 83|doi=10.1063/1.3129008|doi-access=free}} a former doctoral student of Watson, were invited by UCLA's Vern Oliver Knudsen to an evening dinner at Knudsen's beach club in Santa Monica. The three physicists decided to form a society of acoustical engineers interested in architectural acoustics. In the early part of December 1928, Wallace Waterfall sent letters to sixteen people inquiring about the possibility of organizing such a society. Harvey Fletcher offered the use of the Bell Telephone Laboratories at 463 West Street in Manhattan as a meeting place for an organizational, initial meeting to be held on December 27, 1928. The meeting was attended by forty scientists and engineers who started the Acoustical Society of America (ASA). Temporary officers were elected: Harvey Fletcher as president, V. O. Knudsen as vice-president, Wallace Waterfall as secretary, and Charles Fuller Stoddard (1876–1958) as treasurer.{{cite web|title=Clarence Hickman and Charles Stoddard papers, 1886–1999|website=Indiana Historical Society (indianahistory.org)|url=https://indianahistory.org/wp-content/uploads/clarence-hickman-and-charles-stoddard-papers-1886.pdf}}{{cite web|title=The Reproducing Piano - Ampico|website=The Pianola Institute (pianola.org)|url=http://www.pianola.org/reproducing/reproducing_ampico.cfm}} A constitution and by-laws were drafted. The first issue of the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America was published in October 1929.{{cite journal|author=Waterfall, Wallace|title=History of Acoustical Society of America|journal=The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America|volume=1|issue=1|date=October 1929|pages=5–8|doi=10.1121/1.1901431}}

The Society has 13 technical committees that represent specialized interests in the field of acoustics. The committees organize technical sessions at conferences and are responsible for the representation of their sub-field in ASA publications.{{Cite web |title=Governance |url=https://acousticalsociety.org/governance-officers-executive-council-technical-council/ |access-date=July 31, 2023 |website=Acoustical Society of America}} The committees include:

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• Acoustical oceanography
• Animal bioacoustics
• Architectural acoustics
• Biomedical acoustics
• Computational acoustics (Technical Specialty Group)
• Acoustical engineering
• Musical acoustics
• Noise
• Physical acoustics
• Psychoacoustics
• Signal processing in acoustics
• Speech communication
• Structural acoustics and vibration
• Underwater acoustics{{div col end}}

The first meeting was attended by forty scientists and engineers who started the Acoustical Society of America (ASA).{{Cite web |date=2014-02-24 |title=About ASA - Acoustical Society of America |url=https://acoustics.org/about-asa/ |access-date=2023-08-01 |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Farrell |first=Dan |date=2019-10-11 |title=SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS OF HISTORY OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA - Charles E. Schmid and Elaine Moran |url=https://acousticstoday.org/seventy-five-years-of-history-of-the-acoustical-society-of-america-charles-e-schmid-and-elaine-moran/ |access-date=2023-08-01 |website=Acoustics Today |language=en-US}} Some of those members include:

• Edward Joseph Schroeter
• Harvey Fletcher
• Floyd K. Richtmyer
• Dayton Miller
• Harold D. Arnold
• Frederick Albert Saunders
• Floyd R. Watson
• Irving Wolff

The Acoustical Society of America publishes a wide variety of material related to the knowledge and practical application of acoustics in physics, engineering, architecture, noise, oceanography, biology, speech and hearing, psychology and music.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (JASA) - founded in 1929, this is a peer-reviewed academic journal operating on the traditional subscription model.
• JASA Express Letters (2021–present) [https://pubs.aip.org/asa/jel/issue online archive]- this is a peer-reviewed academic journal operating on the open access model.
• Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics (POMA) (2007–present) [https://pubs.aip.org/asa/poma/issue online archive] - repository for conference proceedings.
• Acoustics Today (2005–present) [https://acousticstoday.org/ online archive] a general interest magazine on acoustics.

In 2021, the ASA Publications' Office began producing Across Acoustics, a podcast to highlight authors' research from these four publications.{{Cite web |title=Across Acoustics |url=https://www.buzzsprout.com/1537384 |access-date=2021-11-28 |website=Buzzsprout |language=en}}

• Echoes (1991-2013) [https://acousticalsociety.org/echoes/ online archive] - Quarterly newsletter.
• Acoustics Research Letters Online (2000-2005) [https://pubs.aip.org/asa/arlo/issue online archive] - Launched as an open access journal. It became a section of the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America from 2006 to 2020, then in 2021 became the current journal JASA Express Letters.
• Noise Control (1955-1961) [https://pubs.aip.org/asa/noc/issue online archive]
• Sound: Its Uses and Control (1962-1963) [https://pubs.aip.org/asa/sou online archive] - A continuation of Noise Control, with broadened scope.

The ASA presents awards and prizes to individuals for contributions to the field of Acoustics.{{Cite web|url=https://acousticalsociety.org/acoustical-society-of-america-awards/|title=Awards|website=Acoustical Society of America}} These include:

• Gold Medal
• Silver Medal
• Interdisciplinary Silver Medal – Helmholtz-Rayleigh Interdisciplinary Silver Medal
• R. Bruce Lindsay Award
• Wallace Clement Sabine Medal
• Pioneers of Underwater Acoustics Medal
• A. B. Wood Medal and Prize of the Institute of Acoustics
• Trent-Crede Medal
• von Békésy Medal
• Honorary Fellows
• Distinguished Service Citation
• Science Communication Award {{Cite web|last=|first=|date=4 February 2015|title=Science Communication Awards|url=https://acoustics.org/science-communication-awards-call-for-entries/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200804222515/https://acoustics.org/science-communication-awards-call-for-entries/ |archive-date=2020-08-04 |access-date=|website=Acoustical Society of America Press Room}}
• Rossing Prize in Acoustics Education {{Cite web|last=|first=|date=14 May 2016|title=Awards & Prizes|url=https://asaedcom.org/awards/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200923051421/https://asaedcom.org/awards/ |archive-date=2020-09-23 |access-date=|website=Education in Acoustics Committee|language=en-US}}
• David T. Blackstock Mentor Award {{Cite web|last=|first=|title=Mentor Award|url=https://asastudents.org/mentor-award/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190513140126/https://asastudents.org/mentor-award/ |archive-date=2019-05-13 |website=ASA Students|date=4 December 2018|language=en-US}}
• Medwin Prize in Acoustical Oceanography {{Cite web|title=Medwin Prize in Acoustical Oceanography|url=https://tcaoasa.org/medwin-prize-in-acoustical-oceanography/|access-date=2021-05-25|website=Technical Committee on Acoustical Oceanography|language=en-US}}{{Cite news|last=Heald|first=Gary|date=2002|title=Timothy Leighton FIOA is awarded the Medwin Prize 2001|page=40|work=Acoustics Bulletin|url=https://www.southampton.ac.uk/~assets/doc/timothy_leighton_awarded_medwin_prize.pdf}}
• William and Christine Hartmann Prize in Auditory Neuroscience{{Cite web|title=Prizes|url=https://acousticalsociety.org/prizes/|url-status=live|access-date=28 November 2021|website=Acoustical Society of America Prizes|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180130172815/http://acousticalsociety.org:80/prizes/ |archive-date=2018-01-30 }}

Most technical committees also sponsor awards for best student or early career presenter at each conference.

The ASA offers membership and conference attendance to students at a substantially reduced rate. Conference attendance is further promoted by travel subsidies and formal and informal student meetings and social activities. The ASA also expanded services to students in 2004 by introducing regional student chapters.

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• [https://libserv.aip.org/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=16R9603975U46.1823&profile=rev-icos&source=~!horizon&view=subscriptionsummary&uri=full=3100006~!24075~!0&ri=25&aspect=power&menu=search&ipp=20&spp=20&staffonly=&term=ACOUSTICAL+SOCIETY+OF+AMERICA+MISCELLANEOUS+PUBLICATIONS&index=.GW&uindex=&aspect=power&menu=search&ri=25&limitbox_1=LO01+=+icos+not+CO01+=+co_icos&limitbox_2=LO01+=+icos+not+CO01+=+co_icos&limitbox_1=LO01+=+icos&limitbox_2=CO01+=+co_ar+or+CO01+=+co_mp&limitbox_1=LO01+=+icos+not+CO01+=+co_icos&limitbox_2=LO01+=+icos+not+CO01+=+co_icos Acoustical Society of America miscellaneous publications, 1934-2016, Niels Bohr Library & Archives]
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