Acoustical Oceanography Annual Reports

Spring 2007 Meeting — Salt Lake City, Utah
Annual Report: Fall 2006, Spring 2007

The 2007 Medwin Prize in Acoustical Oceanography was awarded to Brian Dushaw of the University of Washington, Applied Physical Laboratory, Seattle, for his research on acoustic tomography to measure temperature change in the ocean. Dr. Dushaw presented the AO Prize Lecture entitled, “The recent history of our understanding of low-mode internal tides in the ocean.”

AO sponsored two special sessions and a memorial session for Hank Medwin. Jim Lynch (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) organized a special session entitled “Acoustic sensing of the ocean and seabed using gliders and AUVs.” Grant Deane (Marine Physical Laboratory, UCSD) organized a special session entitled “Acoustics of bubble clouds.” Mike Buckingham, David Farmer, and Van Holliday organized the memorial session for Hank Medwin.

Kevin Cockrell (MIT) won first prize in the competition for the Best Student Paper Award in Acoustical Oceanography for his paper entitled. “A proposed technique for source localization using an autonomous underwater vehicle,” and Jan Dettmer (University of Victoria) was awarded second prize for his paper entitled “Bayesian full-wavefield reflection coefficient inversion and uncertainty estimation.”

Matt Dzieciuch (UCSD) represented AO at the Technical Program Organizing Meeting.

Fall 2006 Meeting — Honolulu, Hawaii

The Technical Committee on Acoustical Oceanography (AO) sponsored two special sessions: (1) “Acoustic scattering by aquatic organisms,” organized by Ken Foote (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) and Masahiro Furusawa from the Acoustical Society of Japan; and (2) “Ocean acoustic tomography for coastal and deep water applications,” organized by Jim Mercer (Applied Physical Laboratory, Seattle) and Arato Kaneko from the Acoustical Society of Japan.

The Best Student Paper Awards in Acoustical Oceanography went to Paul Roberts of Scripps (first prize winner) for his paper, “Multiple-angle acoustic scattering and classification of zooplankton,” and Tadanori Fujino (Fisheries Research Agency, Hasaki, Japan) who won second prize for his paper, “Target strength of a mesopelagic fish (Maurolicus japonicus) at 38 and 120 kHz.”

Andone Lavery (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) represented AO at the Technical Program Organizing Meeting.

N. ROSS CHAPMAN, Acoustical Oceanography Chair, 2004–2007

 Previous Acoustical Oceanography Annual Reports: 

• Annual Report: Fall 2005, Spring 2006

• Annual Report: Fall 2004, Spring 2005

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