Fall 2018 Meeting – Victoria, BC, Canada
Annual Report: Fall 2017 (New Orleans, LA) and Sprint 2018 (Minneapolis, MN)
This annual report reviews activities of the Technical Committee on Acoustical Oceanography (TCAO) for the 174th and 175th meetings of Acoustical Society of America (ASA) in New Orleans, Louisiana and in Minneapolis, Minnesota. While we took our foot off the gas pedal this year after two internationally coordinated meetings in the previous year the AOTC enjoyed a wonderfully productive and eventful year.
A highlight is always our special sessions where we heard from scores of our talented researchers including 20 student papers. Here we focused on the topics of 1) Oceanographic contributions to ocean soundscapes, 2) Acoustic scattering from hydrocarbons and hydrothermal vent systems, 3) Biological effects on seabed geoacoustics, 4) Acoustics in estuaries, bays, inlets, fjords and rivers, 5) Acoustic seabed characterization, and 6) Ambient noise oceanography in polar regions. I thank all my skilled session organizers for their successful planning and execution of their sessions, many of which were live broadcast.
Over the year there were also several awards to be celebrated. At the New Orleans meeting Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) Senior Scientist Dr. Andone Lavery was the recipient of the 2017 Walter Munk Award where she delivered the prize lecture entitled “New platforms, technologies, and approaches for remote inference of physical and biological parameters using acoustic scattering techniques’’. Her citation reads “Through discrimination between the scattering by zooplankton and physical microstructure using broadband acoustic measurement methods and models, Andone Lavery has quantified important biological and physical parameters leading to new understanding of both ocean physical processes and marine biology ”. Also at the New Orleans meeting we acknowledged AO founding father Michael Buckingham for his Pioneers of Underwater Acoustics Silver medal, awarded to him by the Underwater Acoustics technical Committee. Michael’s citation reads “For contributions to the understanding of ocean ambient noise and marine sediment acoustics’’. Following along at the Minneapolis meeting WHOI Associate Scientist YT Lin was recognized with the AOTC Medwin Prize. Dr. Lin’s prize lecture was entitled “Three-dimensional shallow water sound propagation and applications toward acoustical oceanography’’, and his citation reads “For fundamental advances in 3-D shallow water acoustics and applications to geoacoustic inversion and marine mammal acoustics’’.
The AO students also shined during this past year with several exemplary papers. Award winners for New Orleans were in first place Elizabeth Weidner of the University of New Hampshire (UNH) with her paper entitled “Investigating bubble transport and fate in the watercolumn with calibrated broadband split-beam echosounder data’’ and in second place Jay Johnson of the University of Texas at Austin (UTA) with his paper “Variations in Ultrasonic Transmission Behavior Along Seagrass Leaf Blades’’. In Minneapolis the first place paper was given by Josée Belcourt of the University of Victoria with the title “Gradient-based Bayesian geoacoustic inversion for sediment properties at the New England mud patch’’ and getting equal second places was Matthew Zeh of UTA with his talk entitled “Acoustical characteristics and contributions of bubbles released from melting glacier ice’’ and Elisabeth Brown from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute for her paper entitled “Implications from a clay/silt suspension model of mud for data from the Seabed Characterization Experiment’’. Well done students and I must say you made the judges life quite difficult because of the high quality of your work.
Continuing on the topic of awards, the AO and Underwater Acoustics (UW) technical committees are pleased to announce the establishment of the yearly Urick prize for the best AO or UW student paper published in the Journal of the Acoustical Society. The $500 prize is named in honor of Dr. Robert Urick of Catholic University of America who authored the classic and still very popular text book “Principles of Underwater Sound’’. We thank Charles Wiseman for helping establish the prize by offering to use a portion of the royalties from an upcoming re-issuing of the Urick text. We also thank Jim Miller, Chair of the Acoustical Society Foundation Board for turning the idea into a reality.
Lastly I want to thank everyone in the TC for all the effort that they put out this year in creating an energetic and dynamic atmosphere in AO and the greater society as a whole. We look forward to a productive and exciting year ahead.
Fall 2017 Meeting – New Orleans, LA
Annual Report: Fall 2016 (Hawaii, HI) and Spring 2017 (Boston, MA)
This annual report reviews activities of the Technical Committee on Acoustical Oceanography (TCAO) from the 172nd and 173rd meetings of Acoustical Society of America (ASA) in Honolulu, Hawaii, held jointly with the Acoustical Society of Japan and in Boston, Massachusetts, held jointly with the European Acoustics Association. These were extremely event filled meetings for the AOTC as we enjoy strong collaborations with our Pacific-rim and trans-Atlantic colleagues.
The year was particularly meaningful for the AOTC as we celebrated our 25th anniversary with a special session at the Honolulu meeting. The audience enjoyed invited talks from our TC founders, Michael Buckingham and David Farmer, ASA honorary fellow Walter Munk, and field luminaries Peter Worcester, James Lynch, Tim Stanton, Aaron Thode, Grant Deane, Martin Siderius, Ross Chapman, and Darrell Jackson. The 25th anniversary spirit continued at the Honolulu meeting with special sessions in two strong AO subject areas: Ocean Acoustic Tomography and Acoustic Scattering by Aquatic Organisms.
The high energy from the Honolulu meeting carried over to Boston which was co-hosted with the European Acoustics Association. In Boston we paid tribute to our colleague David Farmer whose remarkable career in theory, experimentation and engineering has touched if not created nearly every discipline of acoustical oceanography. Much to the delight of David, talks from students and colleagues addressed contributions to our understanding of turbulence, internal waves, mesoscale and submesoscale processes, air-sea interaction, Langmuir circulation, bubble acoustics, zooplankton, fish and marine mammal acoustics, sediment transport, and geoacoustics. Other successful special sessions in Boston included, Acoustic Measurements of Sediment Transport and Near-Bottom Structures, Acoustics and Acoustic Ecology of Benthic Communities, and Tools and Methods of Ocean Mapping.
Over the year there were also several awards. At the Honolulu meeting the AOTC was pleased to award the 2016 Medwin prize to Tom Weber of the University of New Hampshire (UNH) where the citation reads “In recognition of his work on the development and use of acoustic techniques for understanding and quantifying gas bubbles in the ocean’’. Dr. Weber delivered the Medwin address at the Honolulu meeting entitled “Acoustic observations and characterization of oceanic methane gas bubbles rising from the seabed’’. At the Boston meeting it was our pleasure to award the 2017 Medwin prize to Jennifer Miksis-Olds also of UNH. The citation reads “For the development of novel ocean acoustic field techniques and analyses for understanding marine life and ecosystems.’’ Dr. Miksis-Olds delivered the Medwin lecture entitled “ Exploring ocean ecosystems and dynamics through sound’’.
Fall 2016 Meeting – Honolulu, HI
Annual Report: Fall 2015 (Jacksonville, FL) and Sprint 2016 (Salt Lake City, UT)
This annual report reviews activities of the Technical Committee on Acoustical Oceanography (TCAO) from the 170th and 171st meetings of Acoustical Society of America (ASA) held in Jacksonville, Florida, in Fall 2015 and Salt Lake City, Utah, in Spring 2016, respectively. It has been a strong year for AOTC, with many well-attended sessions, a number of recipients of prestigious prizes and awards, and a resurgence in the number of student papers presented.
Two well-attended special sessions were organized by the TCOA at the Jacksonville meeting: 1) “Acoustics of High Latitude Oceans,” joint with SP, UW, and AB, chaired by Aaron Thode (Scripps) and co-organized by John Colosi (Naval Postgraduate School), and 2) “Passive-Acoustic Inversion Using Sources of Opportunity,” joint with SP and UW, co-chaired by Karim Sabra (Georgia Institute of Technology) and Kathleen Wage (George Mason University). In addition, there were 3 special sessions that AO co-sponsored: 1) “Direction of Arrival (DOA) Estimation, Source Localization, Classification, and Tracking Using Small Aperture Arrays,” co-sponsored with SP and UW and co-chaired by R. Lee Culver, (ARL, Penn State University) and Geoffrey H. Goldman, (US Army Research Laboratory), 2) “50 Years of Underwater Acoustics under ASA,” co-sponsored with UW, AB, and SP, chaired by David Bradley (Penn State University) and co-organized by John Colosi (Naval Postgraduate School), and 3) “Bioacoustics Research In Latin America,” co-sponsored with AB and co-organized by Juliana R. Moron (Universida de Federal de Juiz de Fora, Brazil) and Marie Trone (Valencia College). A very-well attended AO Hot Topics talk entitled Hot topics in “cold” acoustical oceanography was presented by Grant B. Deane (Marine Physical Laboratories, Scripps, University of San Diego), complementing the earlier session on the acoustics of high-latitudes. One of the highlights of this meeting was the 2015 Munk Award Lecture given by Carl Wunsch, an Emeritus Professor of Physical Oceanography at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, during the Wednesday afternoon plenary session, entitled “Ocean acoustic tomography: Past, present, and maybe future”. The Munk Award is granted jointly by The Oceanography Society, the Office of Naval Research, and the Office of the Oceanographer of the Navy for distinguished research in oceanography related to sound and the sea. There were also an encouraging number of student papers presented, with the first place prize given to Katherine Wolfe, from the Georgia Institute of Technology, for her paper entitled “Optimized extraction of coherent arrivals from ambient noise correlations in a rapidly fluctuating medium, with an application to passive acoustic tomography”, and second place prize given to Graham Warner, from the University of Victoria, for his paper entitled “Environmental inversion using bowhead whale calls in the Chukchi Sea”.
The Salt Lake City meeting was punctuated by the presentation of the 2016 R. Bruce Lindsay Award to Megan S. Ballard, a member of the AOTC, for contributions to underwater acoustic propagation modeling and inversion techniques in acoustical oceanography. The R. Bruce Lindsay Award is presented in the Spring to a member of the Society who is under 35 years of age and who has been active in the affairs of the Society and has contributed substantially, through published papers, to the advancement of theoretical or applied acoustics, or both. Also at Salt Lake City, the 2016 Medwin Prize was awarded to Thomas Weber from the University of New Hampshire, also an AOTC member. The prize award lecture will be presented at the Hawaii meeting. The Medwin Prize recognizes the accomplishments of young and mid- career scientists involved in research that addresses the effective use of sound in the discovery and understanding of physical and biological parameters and processes in the sea. The new incoming TCAO chair was announced at Salt Lake City, and a hearty congratulations goes to John Colosi (Naval Postgraduate School). There were three well-attended special sessions organized by the TCOA at the Salt Lake City meeting: “Acoustic Consistency of Ocean Models,” co-sponsored by SP, and organized by Tim Duda (WHOI) and Bruce Cornuelle (Scripps), 2) “Noise Impacts from the Industrialization of the Outer Continental Shelf and High Seas,” co-sponsored by AB, and organized by Michael stocker (Ocean Conservation Research), and 3) “Acoustical Oceanographic Tools for the Study of Marine Ecosystems,” co-sponsored by AB, and organized by David Barclay (Dalhousie University) and Wu-Jung Lee (Johns Hopkins University). Though the TCAO seems to be generally skeptical of live broadcasting of special sessions, the latter two special sessions were broadcast live and seemed to enjoy strong on-line attendance. In addition, there was a special session on “Sediment Characterization Using Direct and Inverse Techniques,” that AO co-sponsored with SP and UW and which was co-chaired by David Knobles (KSA LLC) and Preston Wilson (University of Texas at Austin). There were again a very healthy number of student papers presented, with the first place prize given to Scott Loranger, from the University of New Hampshire, for his paper entitled “An evaluation of the frequency response of hydrocarbon droplets”,
and the second place prize was a tie between Jacquelyn Kubicko, for her paper entitled “Passive ocean acoustic tomography using ships as sources of opportunity recorded on an irregularly spaced free-floating array: A feasibility study”, and Graham Warner, for his paper entitled “Time-difference-of-arrival localization of bowhead whales using asynchronous recorders”.
This report is my last as Chair of the AO Technical Committee. I want to close by thanking the volunteers who made the activities of the AO Technical Committee possible this year. I look forward to continuing to work with the AO Technical Committee and the ASA community more broadly.
Fall 2015 Meeting — Jacksonville, FL
Annual Report: Fall 2014 (Indianapolis, IN) and Spring 2015 (Pittsburgh, PA)
Fall 2014 Meeting — Indianapolis, IN
Annual Report: Fall 2013 (San Francisco, CA) and Spring 2014 (Providence, RI)
The Acoustical Oceanography Technical Committee had a very productive year in 2013‐2014. This annual report reviews events from the 166th and 167th meetings of Acoustical Society of America (ASA) in San Francisco, CA and Providence, RI.
The highlight of the San Francisco meeting was the 2013 Munk Award Lecture, presented by W. Stephen Holbrook of the University of Wyoming, entitled “Ten years of seismic oceanography: Accomplishments and challenges”. The Munk Award and Medal are granted jointly by The Oceanography Society, The Office of Naval Research, and the Office of the Oceanographer of the Navy. The award was given for his use of low frequency seismic reflection profiling to image the water column has provided quantitative and novel insights into the structure and dynamics of internal waves, eddies and mixing processes. Steve Holbrook is honored as the father of the new field of “Seismic Oceanography”. Also at the San Francisco meeting, AO sponsored two special sessions: 1) “Acoustics for Cabled Observatories,” organized by Thomas Dakin (Ocean Networks Canada) and Bruce Howe (University of Hawaii), and 2) “Properties Trends, and Utilization of Ocean Noise,” organized by Jennifer Miksis‐Olds (ARL‐Penn. State) and Zoi‐Heleni Michalopoulou (New Jersey Institute of Technology). The AO Technical Committee would like to thank Jim Lynch for representing AO at the Technical Program Organizing Meeting held in San Francisco in July 2013, and for diverging from tradition and organizing a highly successful, joint AO and UW, poster session. The AO and UW student papers and posters were combined at the San Francisco meeting. Erin Fischell (MIT) won first prize in the competition for Best Student Paper for her poster entitled “Supervised machine learning for estimation of rough bottom anisotropy direction using bistatic acoustic scattered fields,” and Sean Walstead (Scripps) was awarded second prize for his poster entitled “Surface wave shape inversion from forward scattered ocean acoustic data”. Katherine Woolfe (Georgia Institute of Technology) won first prize in the competition for Best Student Paper for her presentation entitled “Passive acoustic thermometry of the deep water sound channel using ambient noise,” and Tao Lin (New Jersey Institute of Technology) was awarded second prize for his presentation entitled “An inverse method for estimating sediment sound speed”.
The highlight of the Providence meeting was the presentation of the 2014 Medwin Prize in Acoustical Oceanography, awarded to Andone Lavery, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts. This prize recognizes the accomplishments of young and mid‐ career scientists involved in research that addresses the effective use of sound in the discovery and understanding of physical and biological parameters and processes in the sea. Dr. Lavery presented the prize lecture, entitled “Title”. Also at the Providence meeting, AO sponsored a very well‐attended special session on “Using Acoustics to Study Fish Distribution and Behavior,” organized by Kelly Benoit‐Bird (Oregon State University) and Timothy K. Stanton (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. The AO Technical Committee would like to thank Tim Stanton for representing AO at the Technical Program Organizing Meeting held in Providence in January 2014. Craig Dolder (Appl. Res. Labs, The Univ. of Texas at Austin) won first prize in the competition for Best Student Paper for his presentation on “Extracting effective medium properties for fish schools from resonator and free‐field measurements” and Adaleena Mookerjee (Univ. of Michigan) was awarded second prize for her presentation on “Comparison of near‐ field acoustic coherent backscattering simulations with optics theory and experiments”.
This report is my first as Chair of the AO Technical Committee. I want to close by thanking the outgoing chair, Martin Siderius, for helping to make the transition as smooth as possible, and also by thanking all the many volunteers who make the activities of the AO Technical Committee possible. I look forward to working with the AO Technical Committee and the ASA community more broadly for the rest of my term as chair.
Fall 2013 Meeting — San Francisco, California
Annual Report: Fall 2012 (Kansas City), Spring 2013 (Montreal)
The Acoustic Oceanography Technical Committee (AO TC) continued to be very active in 2012-2013. This annual report reviews events from the 164th and 165th meetings of Acoustical Society of America (ASA) in Kansas City, USA and Montreal, Canada.
At the Kansas City meeting, John Colosi was awarded the 2012 Medwin Prize in Acoustical Oceanography and gave the prize lecture, “The problem of sound propagation through the fluctuation ocean and the interplay between ocean acoustics and physical oceanography”. This prize is given to recognize a person for the effective use of sound in the discovery and understanding of physical and biological parameters and processes in the sea. John was given the award for work on ocean internal waves as they relate to sound fluctuations in the sea. The 2013 Medwin Prize in Acoustical Oceanography was awarded at the Montreal meeting to Philippe Roux. Philippe gave the Medwin Prize lecture, “Acoustical tomography in the shallow water ocean: Dream or reality?”
The 2013 Helmholtz-Rayleigh Interdisciplinary Silver Medal was awarded to Tim Leighton at the Montreal meeting. The award was given to Tim for contributions to physical acoustics, biomedical ultrasound, sonochemistry, and acoustical oceanography.
A highlight of the Kansas City meeting was the special session honoring Clarence Clay. Clarence Clay passed away in 2011 and was well known in the Acoustical Oceanography community for his many contributions to the field. He received the first ASA Silver Medal in Acoustical Oceanography in 1993. The session was very well attended with an opening talk given by Ivan Tolstoy, which was an excellent tribute. There were also family members at the session and reception that followed.
The Montreal meeting had a special event to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Discovery of Sound in the Sea (DOSITS www.dosits.org). There was a symposium to commemorate the anniversary that included several excellent lectures describing research activities in Acoustical Oceanography, Animal Bioacoustics and Underwater Acoustics. Presentations were given by Gail Scowcroft from the University of Rhode Island, Dr. Arthur N. Popper from the University of Maryland, Dr. Darlene Ketten from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, Dr. Kathleen Vigness-Raposa from Marine Acoustics Inc., Dr. Peter Worcester from Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Dr. James Miller from the Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation and the University of Rhode Island.
Fall 2012 Meeting — Kansas City, Missouri
Annual Report: Fall 2011 (San Diego), Spring 2012 (Hong Kong)
It was a big year for William Kuperman as he was awarded the ASA Gold Metal at the Hong Kong meeting for leadership in underwater acoustics, mentoring generations of acousticians, and for service to the society. Bill was also awarded the 2011 Munk Award. This is awarded jointly by The Oceanography Society, the Office of Naval Research and the Office of the Oceanographer of the Navy. Bill received the award and presented the Munk Award lecture, “Underwater Acoustics and Acoustical Oceanography” at the San Diego Meeting.
John Colosi is the recipient of the 2012 Medwin Prize in Acoustical Oceanography. This prize is given to recognize a person for the effective use of sound in the discovery and understanding of physical and biological parameters and processes in the sea. John was given the award for work on ocean internal waves as they relate to sound fluctuations in the sea. John will give the 2012 Medwin Prize lecture at the Kansas City ASA meeting.
There were some notable special sessions at the San Diego meeting including a memorial session in honor of Van Holliday. Van was one of the pioneers of Acoustical Oceanography and the session highlighted the many contributions Van made to the field. The session attendees included family members and numerous long time colleagues and it was obvious to all that Van had an enormous impact on both Acoustical Oceanography and on the people in the field. In San Diego there was also a special session honoring the work of Steve Schock on acoustic bottom characterization and sub-bottom imaging. This session was also very well attended and had a variety of invited speakers describe the many contributions Steve has been making on this topic as well as the continuing developments in this area based on Steve’s work over the years. The Hong Kong meeting had a very interesting special session on new technologies for active and passive monitoring of fish.
Fall 2011 Meeting — San Diego, California
Annual Report: Fall 2010 (Cancun), Spring 2011 (Seattle)
At the 161st meeting in Seattle, the 2011 Medwin Prize in Acoustical Oceanography was awarded to Aaron Thode for his contributions to Acoustical Oceanography. His Acoustical Oceanography research has been primarily in marine mammal acoustics but Aaron has also made numerous contributions to Underwater Acoustics and Signal Processing. The Medwin Prize was formally presented at the awards ceremony. Also during the Seattle meeting, Aaron gave the prize lecture, “Skipping stones along the boundary between marine mammal acoustics and acoustical oceanography” to a room filled to capacity. The audience was clearly fascinated by the images and sounds he presented that summarized years of research.
In Seattle, a very successful fisheries workshop was held that was co-sponsored by the ASA the American Fisheries Society. The workshop title was, “Acoustic Challenges in Aquatic Ecosystem Assessment”. This was very well attended with posters and lectures presented over a two day period in parallel with the ASA meeting. The workshop organizers were John Horne, (University of Washington), Robert McClure (BioSonics Inc.), Charles Schmid (Acoustical Society of America) and Martin Siderius (Portland State University).
In 2011 there were several outstanding special sessions at both the Cancun and Seattle meetings. At the Cancun meeting there was “Acoustics of Fish Schools and Bubble Clouds” about experimental evidence and theoretical descriptions of low frequency resonances associated with fish schools and wave induced bubble clouds. This session organizer was Orest Diachok. Also in Cancun was the special session, “Remote Sensing with Ambient Noise” on using noise and interferometric methods to obtain information about the environment. Peter Gerstoft and Martin Siderius organized this session. Both Cancun sessions were well attended and had many contributed papers as well as invited lectures. In Seattle, Brian Dushaw and Tim Duda organized “Ocean Observing Systems: Acoustical Observations and Applications” on passive and active acoustic methods for long-term observations of physical, chemical, and biological processes. This session had invited speakers that spanned a wide variety of topics related to ocean observing systems and also had an impressive number of contributed papers. Also in Seattle Jim Lynch organized the special session “Integrating Ocean and Acoustic Observations With Models”. This session was primarily about improving results from forward and inverse problems by including physical, oceaongraphic, geologic, or biologic information in ocean models. Acoustical Oceanography was also featured in the Hot Topics session in Seattle where Brian Dushaw gave the lecture “Building the oceanic concert hall: Multidisciplinary applications of acoustic for ocean observing systems”.
Fall 2010 Meeting — Cancun, Mexico
Annual Report: Fall 2009 (San Antonio), Spring 2010 (Baltimore)
The Silver Medal won by Robert Spindel (Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington) in Acoustical Oceanography. This was presented at the Fall 2009 Meeting in San Antonio. The Silver Medal is presented to individuals, without age limitation, for contributions to the advancement of science, engineering, or human welfare through the application of acoustic principles, or through research accomplishment in acoustics. This is only the fourth Silver to be awarded in Acoustical Oceanography. The Silver Medal was awarded for implementation of ocean acoustic tomography and basin scale acoustic thermometry. Jim Lynch wrote the citation and introduced Bob at the award ceremony.
At the fall meeting in San Antonio the Walter Munk Award was presented for the first time at an ASA meeting to James (Jim) Lynch (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution). The Walter Munk Award is given in recognition of distinguished research in oceanography related to sound and the sea and is granted jointly by the Oceanography Society, the Office of Naval Research and the Office of the Oceanographer of the Navy. Jim Miller (University of Rhode Island) nominated Jim for the award and gave the introduction. The Navy was represented by Ellen Livingston and Linwood Vincent from the Office of Naval Research and Jennifer Ramarui represented the Oceanography Society. After the award was presented, Jim Lynch gave the Munk Award lecture “Acoustical oceanography and shallow water acoustics” to a standing room only crowd.
In San Antonio, the first place student paper award went to Joseph Senne for “Measurement and modeling of high frequency acoustic channels for a moving source in shallow water”, second place to Lora Van Uffelen for “Characterization of deep acoustic shadow zone arrivals”. For the Baltimore meeting the first place award went to Jorge Quijano for the paper, “Tank experiments for validation of volume scattering models”. Second place was awarded to Jit Sarkar for “Inverting for surface displacement fields using directly measured point-to-point sensitivity kernels”.
Juan Arvelo served as the Technical Program Organizing Meeting (TPOM) representative for AO at the San Antonio meeting and Altan Turgut for the Baltimore meeting. In San Antonio there were three special sessions and a Hot Topics presentation in Acoustical Oceanography. The first special session was organized and chaired by Thomas Weber and Ralph Stephen on “Acoustic measurements of water column scatterers using multibeam sonar”. The second, “Acoustics and ocean acidity” was organized and chaired by, Tim Duda and Peter Worcester. And, the third was the “Session in honor of Stan Flatte´”, organized and chaired by John Colosi and Jeff Simmen. The Hot Topics presentation was “Remote sensing with ambient noise” presented by Peter Gerstoft. For the Baltimore meeting there were two special sessions, “Acoustics in Polar Environments”, which was organized and chaired by Jennifer Miksis-Olds and Ann Bowles and “Impact of Shallow Water Acoustic Propagation by Linear Internal Waves and Neutrally Buoyant Intrusions”, organized and chaired by DJ Tang and David Bradley.
ANDONE LAVERY, Acoustical Oceanography Chair, 2013-2016
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