David Barclay

Chair, Acoustical Oceanography Technical Committee

Term 2022-2025

David R. Barclay is an associate professor in the Department of Oceanography at Dalhousie University where he holds a Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in Ocean Technology Systems.  He received a B.Sc. (Honours) in physics with a minor in Music Technology from McGill University in 2005 and completed a Ph.D. at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego in 2011.  He was a Deep Ocean Exploration Institute postdoctoral scholar and an Office of Naval Research postdoctoral fellow in Ocean Acoustics at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, as well as a postdoctoral researcher at the Memorial University of Newfoundland.  He is an associate editor in acoustical oceanography for the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America-Express Letters and the IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering.  He received and Medwin Prize from the Acoustical Society of America, and the A.B. Wood Medal from the Institute of Acoustics.  

Degrees:

PhD – Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, 2011, Oceanography

BSs – McGill Univeristy, Canada, 2005, Honors in Physics, minor in Music Technology

Mailing Address:

Dalhousie University

Department of Oceanography

Room 5672, LSC Ocean Wing, 1355 Oxford St

PO Box 15000

Halifax, Nova Scotia

Canada B3H 4R2

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Former Chairs:

Grant Deane, Term 2019-2022 Background

John Colosi, Term 2016-2019 Background

Andone Lavery, Term 2013-2016 Background

Martin Siderius, Term 2010-2013 Background

James H. Miller, Term 2007 – 2010 Background

N. Ross Chapman, Term 2004 – 2007

Peter F. Worcester, Term 2001 – 2004

James F. Lynch, Term 1998 – 2001

Michael J. Buckingham, Term 1992 – 1995

Herman Medwin, Term 1989 – 1992