Stinson, Michael R. (Michael Roy)
Oral history interview with Michael Stinson, 2018 December 5.
In this interview with former Acoustical Society of America president Mike Stinson, the discussion begins with Stinsons experiences as a member of the society and recollections of his work with Shyam Khanna. The interview then shifts to Stinsons youth near Vancouver, British Columbia, including his undergraduate education and masters degree work in physics at Simon Fraser University. Stinson then recounts work in the sawmill industry and his decision to pursue a doctorate at Queens University in Kingston, Ontario, involving research on the electrical and thermal conduction properties of metals at low temperatures. Stinson discusses his career at the National Research Council of Canada, where he moved into acoustics, working with researchers such as Gilles Daigle, Dave Havelock, Edgar Shaw, and Tony Embleton, and technicians such as Allen Hellard and Marina Vaillancourt. He also recounts particular projects, such as work on the acoustics of Blackberry devices and the effects of atmospheric turbulence on sound, as well as the NRCs decision to discontinue his group and his establishment of the company MG Acoustics with Daigle, who is also the interviewer.
Michael Stinson is a former president of the Acoustical Society of America. He completed his doctoral studies at Queen's University in Ontario. Stinson was a longtime Research Officer at the National Research Council of Canada, and he is a co-founder of MG Acoustics.
Daigle, Gilles A.
Embleton, Tony F. W.
Stinson, Michael R. (Michael Roy)
Acoustical Society of America
National Research Council of Canada.
Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.)
Simon Fraser University.
Atmospheric turbulence.
Meteorology
Microphone.
Noise control
Sound
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Daigle, Gilles A. interviewer.
AIP-ICOS
American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA