Department Publications

2020s

2025

5. Exploring the effect of rocket launch noise on coastal birds at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California

   Kent L. Gee, Levi T. Moats^†, Lucas K. Hall, Rachel H. Budge, Megan R. McCullah-Boozer, and Grant W. Hart

   Australian Acoustical Society, ACOUSTICS2025: Acoustics 2025, (Joondalup, Western Australia, November 2025).
   
6. Measuring the world's most powerful rocket: Noise from Starship Super Heavy

   Kent L. Gee, Noah L. Pulsipher^†, Makayle S. Kellison^‡, and Grant W. Hart

   Australian Acoustical Society, ACOUSTICS2025: Acoustics 2025, (Joondalup, Western Australia, November 2025).
   
7. Using Firefly Alpha’s first-stage anomaly to examine clustered nozzle effects in rocket noise

   Matthew G. Yancey^‡, Griffin Houston^‡, Grant W. Hart, Logan T. Mathews^†, Michael S. Bassett^‡, J. Taggart Durrant^‡, and Kent L. Gee

   182nd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, (Denver, CO, May 2022). Proc. Meet. Acoust. 46 (1), 040005 (2025).
   
8. Starship Super Heavy acoustics: Comparing launch noise from Flights 5 and 6

   Kent L. Gee, Noah L. Pulsipher^‡, Makayle S. Kellison^‡, Grant W. Hart, Logan T. Mathews^†, and Mark C. Anderson^†

   JASA Express Letters 5 (2), 023602 (2025).
   
9. Using photographs to verify the nature of Mach wave radiation from a Falcon 9 rocket plume

   Grant W. Hart, Kent L. Gee, Eric G. Hintz, Nathan F. Carlston^‡, Giovanna G. Nuccitelli^‡, and Trevor Mahlmann

   186th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the Canadian Acoustical Association, (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, May 2024). Proc. Meet. Acoust. 54 (1), 040012 (2025).
   

^‡Undergraduate Student Author

^†Graduate Student Author