An introduction to the acoustical oceanography technical committee

Abstract

Acoustics is a critical modality for interpreting the ocean environment, as evidenced by the complex acoustic physiology and sophisticated auditory processing capability of marine organisms, for example. The acoustical oceanography (AO) technical committee (TC) seeks to foster a broad range of work in pure and applied acoustics aimed at gaining new and fundamental understanding of physical, biological, geophysical, and chemical processes in the ocean and at its boundaries. With this focus, the AO TC is necessarily strongly interdisciplinary, having close ties to other TC’s such as animal bioacoustics, physical acoustics, signal processing, and underwater acoustics. This talk will describe many of the break-through discoveries that have been made in our field and point to inspiring present and future work.Acoustics is a critical modality for interpreting the ocean environment, as evidenced by the complex acoustic physiology and sophisticated auditory processing capability of marine organisms, for example. The acoustical oceanography (AO) technical committee (TC) seeks to foster a broad range of work in pure and applied acoustics aimed at gaining new and fundamental understanding of physical, biological, geophysical, and chemical processes in the ocean and at its boundaries. With this focus, the AO TC is necessarily strongly interdisciplinary, having close ties to other TC’s such as animal bioacoustics, physical acoustics, signal processing, and underwater acoustics. This talk will describe many of the break-through discoveries that have been made in our field and point to inspiring present and future work.