NAG Meetings 8-31-16 and 9-28-16

The beginning of another school year is always exciting!  This year, we were pleased to welcome two new graduate students to NAG: Anna Catton and Yoshimi Hasegawa.  At the first NAG meeting of the semester on 8/31/16, members discussed their summer experiences at various acoustic endeavors, and the nugget of the month highlighted a story on CBS that focused on the sounds of a US national park “On The Trail: Great Sand Dunes National Park”.  Then at the 9/28/16 NAG meeting, members of Dr. Ryherd’s research group introduced the new acoustic camera that was recently acquired at UNL – what a cool device!  The nugget that month was on metamaterials and their potential to absorb low frequencies without great mass.