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Fisheries acoustics have been studied for over 40 years to assess biomass and optimize aquaculture applications, and researchers in France have examined the phenomenon of how fish scatter acoustic waves in a dense school of fish contained in an open-sea cage. They developed an approach to help overcome issues encountered in aquaculture relating to the evaluation of the total biomass of dense schools of fish. They will discuss their work at the 178th ASA Meeting.

Channels: Marine Science, Embargoed Feed - hidden, Scientific Meetings,

Keywords: Acoustics, Fisheries, fish, Aquaculture, mesoscopic, Sound Waves, Benoit Tallon, CNRS, ASA, 178th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America

Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed an innovative control system for repurposed electric vehicle battery packs to store electricity for home use and are scaling up the technology to a large, power grid-level project.

Channels: All Journal News, Automotive, DOE Science News, Energy, Technology, DOE Science News, Scientific Meetings,

Keywords: Electric Vehicles, electric vehicle batteries, second use batteries, control system, Power Grid, Energy Storage, Renewable Energy, grid energy storage

One of the first things viewers of “Rick and Morty” might notice about Rick is his penchant for punctuating his speech with burps. Brooke Kidner has analyzed the frequency and acoustics of belching while speaking, and by zeroing in on the specific pitches and sound qualities of a midspeech burp, aims to find what latent linguistic meaning might be found in the little-studied gastrointestinal grumbles. Kidner will present her findings at the 178th ASA Meeting.

Channels: All Journal News, Speech & Language, Local - California, Embargoed Feed - hidden, Arts and Entertainment, Physics, Staff Picks, Scientific Meetings,

Keywords: Belching, Speech, Linguistics, acoustic characteristics, Acoustics, burping, Brooke Kidner , University Of Southern California, ASA, 178th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America

Combined with networks of sensors and controllers, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Collaborative Research Augmented Immersive Virtual Environment Laboratory Lab provides its users new modes of interactions between humans and virtual worlds, with experiences ranging from the familiar to the otherwise remote or downright imaginary.

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Keywords: Virtual Reality, Virtual Environments, Immersive, hardware platforms, Scalability, Jerry Huang, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Collaborative Research Augmented Immersive Virtual Environment Laboratory, CRAIVE Lab, ASA, 178th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America

University of Washington researchers have found that warmer temperatures, at levels expected under most climate change projections, can lead to higher concentrations of arsenic in rice grains.

Channels: Agriculture, All Journal News, Climate Science, Environmental Science, Food and Water Safety, Food Science, Plants, Scientific Meetings,

Keywords: Climate Change, rice, Arsenic, warmer temperatures, Crops, crop yield, Health, Population Health

National Park Service scientists analyzed nearly 1 million 10-second audio recording samples from national parks across the country and discovered a small increase in bird sound detection when an aircraft sound is also detected. During the 178th ASA Meeting, Kurt Fristrup will present the findings and how human responses to noise might be studied.

Channels: Birds, Embargoed Feed - hidden, Scientific Meetings,

Keywords: National Parks, Aircraft, aircraft noise, Bird Populations, Noise, Human Behavior, acoustic behavior, Acoustics, Kurt Fristrup, National Park Service, ASA, 178th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America

Study investigates effects of irrigation management on yield and profit

Channels: Agriculture, All Journal News, Food and Water Safety, Technology, Drought, Scientific Meetings,

Keywords: Water, Agriculture, Soil Science, Crop Science, Agronomy, Sustainability, Irrigation, Technology, Yield, Profitability, Conservation, Management, Drought, Food Security

UW researchers have created Carpentry Compiler, a digital tool that allows users to design woodworking projects. Once a project is designed, the tool creates optimized fabrication instructions based on the materials and equipment a user has available.

Channels: All Journal News, Engineering, Technology, Scientific Meetings,

Keywords: Carpentry, Woodworking, Programming, programming languages, CAD, Design, Optimization, Computer Science, computer science and engineering

People with visual impairments use social media like everyone else, often with the help of screen reader software.

Channels: Arts and Entertainment, Engineering, Social Media, Technology, Vision, Staff Picks, Scientific Meetings,

Fog harvesting is a potential practical source of fresh water in foggy coastal deserts, and current solutions rely on meter scale nets/meshes. The mesh geometry, however, presents a physiologically inappropriate shape for millimeter scale bulk bodies, like insects.

Channels: Physics, Technology, Embargoed Feed - hidden, Scientific Meetings,

Keywords: American Physical Society, Division of Fluid Dynamics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, FOG, Fresh Water, Namib beetle, University of Akron, Tatooine