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STUDENT AND YOUNG PRESENTERS' BEST PAPER AWARDS

Several ASA Technical Committees offer Best Paper Awards to students who present papers at Society meetings. If you would like your paper to be considered for an award, you must indicate this when you submit your abstract. Application is made through the normal abstract submission process for ASA meetings.

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Recent Best Paper Award Winners:

Session 153, Spring 2007 — Salt Lake City, UT

Kevin Cockrell, First Prize Winner
Title: A proposed technique for source localization using an autonomous underwater vehicle

Jan Dettmer, Second Prize Winner
Title: Bayesian full-wavefield reflection coefficient inversion and uncertainty estimation

Session 152, Fall 2006 — Honolulu, HI

Paul Roberts, First Prize Winner
Title: Multiple-angle acoustic scattering and classification of zooplankton

Tadanori Fujino, Second Prize Winner
Title: Target strength of a mesopelagic fish Maurolicus japonicus at 38 and 120 kHz

Session 151, Spring 2006 — Providence, RI

Matthias Meyer, First Prize Winner
Title: Adjoint approach to the physical characterization of a shallow water environment

Jason Holmes, Second Prize Winner
Title: Low frequency sound reflection and conversion to Darcytype diffusion waves at bottom interfaces with marine sediments

Session 150, Fall 2005 — Minneapolis, MN

Morley, Michael G., First Prize Winner
Title: Estimating geoacoustic properties of marine sediments by matched field inversion using ship noise as a sound source. (1pAO5)

Oswald, Julie N., Second Prize Winner
Title: A new tool for real-time acoustic species identification of delphinid whistles. (2pAO7)

Session 149, Spring 2005 — Vancouver, BC

Srinivasan Jagannathan (MIT), First Prize Winner.
Title: Could animals detect the approaching tsunami? (1pAOb2)

Ben Biffard (University of Victoria), Second Prize Winner.
Title: Single beam echo sounding: considerations of depth and sea bed slope (2pAO3).

Previous Best Paper Award Winners:

Session 148, Fall 2004 — San Diego, CA

Eric Giddens, First Prize Winner.
Title: Geoacoustic inversions in shallow water using Doppler shifted modes from a moving source. (3aAO6)

Erica Summers-Morris, Second Prize Winner.
Title: Geographical information systems (GIS) analysis of high-resolution multibeam bathymetry and remotely operated vehicle data to model rockfish habitat preference. (1pAOa1)

Session 147, Spring 2004 — New York, NY

Joshua Wilson (MIT), First Prize Winner.
Title: Experimental demonstration of accurate hurricane classification from local wind speed estimates obtained with underwater sound.

Cristina Tollefsen (Memorial University), Second Prize Winner.
Title: Sources of uncertainty in Doppler sonar measurements of fish speed.

Session 146, Fall 2003 — Austin, TX

Deanelle Symonds (MIT), First Prize Winner.
Title: Fish schools are the dominant cause of long-range active sonar clutter in the New Jersey continental shelf: Quantitative correlations.

Ioannis Bertsatos (MIT), Second Prize Winner.
Title: Optimally resolving Lambertian surface orientation.

Session 145, Spring 2003 — Nashville, TN

Kelley Benoit-Bird (Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology), First Prize Winner.
Title: Target strength and density structure of Hawaiian mesopelagic boundary community patches (Paper 3aA09)

Mark Fallat (SACLANT Undersea research Center), Second Prize Winner.
Title: Geoacoustic characterization of a range dependent environment using towed array data. (Paper 2pA05)

Information on ASA Technical Committees' Best Paper Awards

Committees Offering Best Student Paper Awards:

Award Amounts:

Each of the Technical Committees listed above can provide two awards to students presenting papers in their specific sessions.

The awarded amounts are:

$300 for first prize
$200 for second prize

Qualifications:

To qualify for these awards, an author must:

Be a student enrolled at least a half-time in a recognized university or college. Graduates are eligible if the work being presented was performed as a student within one year of the meeting. Please 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. Presentation materials or a written text must be provided 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:

Award winners will be selected by a subcommittee of each award granting Technical Committee.

Selection will be based upon the quality of both the paper's content and its presentation.

The awards will be announced either at the meeting of the Technical Committee or after the close of the meeting.

Application:

All applicants wishing be considered for these awards must indicate their intention by putting the following statement at the bottom of their submitted abstract:

For (name of appropriate Technical Committee) Best Student Paper Award.