Fifteen Years of U.S.—China Cooperative Research in Underwater Acoustics: 1995–2010

Abstract

The Office of Naval Research and the Chinese Academy of Sciences established and continue to encourage an unprecedented collaboration between the United States and China in the basic research field of ocean acoustics. This paper describes the progression of events in the scientific relationship. This cooperative research effort, primarily focused on shallow‐water acoustics, has varied over fifteen years. It has involved numerous researchers and institutions from the U.S., China, and other countries, and it has resulted in productive workshops, conferences, field experiments, research collaborations, and scientific publications.