Shallow water acoustics and oceanography at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution over the last quarter century

Abstract

Shallow water (coastal) acoustics has been a topic of great interest over quarter century, both from the point of view of learning coastal oceanography and of learning coastal acoustics. Indeed, the two are difficult to separate. In this talk, the research done at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (very often in collaboration with other institutions) over the past 25 years will be discussed, with an emphasis on the major experimental efforts that have been fielded, but also including theoretical and computational efforts. The Barents Sea Polar Front experiment, the Shallow Water Acoustic Random Medium experiment, the Shelfbreak PRIMER experiment, the Asian Seas International Acoustics Experiment, the Shallow Water 2006 experiment, and the Quantifying, Predicting and Exploiting Uncertainty program are some of the at-sea efforts to be discussed. Theoretical advances in shallow water acoustics, as well as computational efforts, such as the Integrated Ocean Dynamics and Acoustics project, will also be ...