Special Sessions — Acoustical Oceanography Committee

 Upcoming Meeting: 

 Session 151,  November 2007 — New Orleans, LA

• Deep and shallow seismic sensing of geological structure in the ocean bottom:
  Applications of seismic methods to investigate geophysical processes and geological structure in the ocean bottom.
  
  
• Storms and intense air-sea interactions:
  Passive and active acoustic remote sensing of the physical processes in storms and intense air-sea interactions.

 Past Meetings: 

 Session 153,  Spring 2007 — Salt Lake City, UT

• Acoustic sensing of the ocean and seabed using gliders and AUVs
  Organized by Jim Lynch (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution).
  
  
• Acoustics of bubble clouds:
  Organized by Grant Deane (Marine Physical Laboratory, UCSD).

• Hank Medwin Memorial Session: Organized by Mike Buckingham, David Farmer, and Van Holliday

 Session 152,  Fall 2006 — Honolulu, HI

• Acoustic scattering by aquatic organisms
  Organized by Ken Foote (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) and Masahiro Furusawa from the Acoustical Society of Japan.
  
  
• 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.

 Session 151,  June 2006 — Providence, RI

• Exploitation of sound by marine mammals:
  Marine mammals are sophisticated users of sound, both self generated and the surrounding ambient. This session features research that shows examples of this behavior.
  
  
• Ultra-low and low frequency marine seismo-acoustics:
  Focus is on acoustic sensing of natural seismic phenomena such as tsunamis, earthquakes and ocean storm events.

Session 150, Fall 2005 — Minneapolis, MN

• Ocean ecosystem measurement:
  Use of acoustics to determine the abundance, distribution, and behavior of marine organisms in relation to their environment.
  
  
• Inversion using ambient noise sources:
  Inversion techniques for estimation of ocean environments using natural and man-made noise as sound sources.
  

Session 149, Spring 2005 — Vancouver, BC

• Riverine Acoustics
   
  
• Acoustics and ocean observatories:
  Science results and development efforts related to sustained ocean observing, in all fields from physics to biology.
  

Session 148, Fall 2004 — San Diego, CA

• Acoustic characterization of the benthic habitat.
  
  
• Acoustic sensing of internal waves. (Joint with Underwater Acoustics)
  

Session 147, Spring 2004 — New York, NY

• D. Van Holliday special session on acoustical measurements of marine organisms. (Joint with Animal Bioacoustics)
  
  
• Ocean acoustics of earthquakes.
  

Session 146, Fall 2003  — Austin, TX

• Aubrey L. Anderson memorial session on acoustics of gas-bearing sediments. (Joint with Underwater Acoustics)
  
  
• Developments in multibeam sonar for water-column measurements.
  

Session 145, Spring 2003 — Nashville, TN

• Bioacoustic resonance spectroscopy:
  Backscattering and absorptivity at resonance frequencies of the swim bladders of fish, lungs of marine mammals, and air chambers of plankton and other marine life. (Joint with Underwater Acoustics)
  
  
• Geoacoustic inversions:
  General inversion techniques to characterize the bottom geoacoustic environment. (Joint with Underwater Acoustics and Signal Processing in Acoustics)

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