Professor of Ocean Acoustics
Research Interests:
- Shallow-water ocean acoustic propagation
- Ambient noise inversions for sediment geoacoustic properties
- 3-D acoustic propagation in range-dependent channels
- Acoustic imaging using ambient noise (acoustic daylight)
- Volcano acoustics
- Bubble dynamics
- Bubble acoustics (collective oscillations)
- Sediment acoustics
- Waves in porous media
- Causality and the transient solutions of partial differential wave equations
- High Doppler airborne sources for underwater acoustics research
- Statistical properties of sand grain shapes
- Packing statistics of irregular particles
- Ambient noise profiling in the deep (11 km) ocean
- Underwater detection and modeling of sonic booms
- Acoustic pulse propagation in dispersive media
- Very-high-energy neutrino detection in the ocean
Degrees:
- B.S., University of Reading, England
- Ph.D., University of Reading, England