ACOUSTICAL OCEANOGRAPHY MINI-TUTORIAL SERIES
The Acoustical Oceanography (AO) Mini-Tutorial series continues with two one-hour lectures. The goal of the AO Mini-Tutorial series is to provide up-to-date overviews of ocean processes that affect acoustics and that in turn can be studied using acoustic methods. The distinguished speaker in the AO special session on Geoacoustic Inversion is Stan E. Dosso (University of Victoria, Canada), who will speak on "Probabilistic Geoacoustic Inversion" in Session XXAO on XXXX at XXXX in Room XXX. This special session focuses on the use of general inversion techniques to characterize the bottom geoacoustic environment. The distinguished speakers in the AO special session on Bioacoustic Resonance Spectroscopy are David T. I. Frances (University of Birmingham, UK) and Kenneth G. Foote (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), who will speak on "Acoustic swimbladder resonance spectroscopy: fundamentals in scattering theory" in Session XXAO on XXXX at XXXX in Room XXX. This special session focuses on the 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.
Discovery of Sound in the Sea
The Office of Marine Programs at URI launched a new web site last Monday, entitled "Discovery of Sound in the Sea (DOSITS)." I would very much appreciate it if you could add a link to the DOSITS site from the ASA Acoustical Oceanography Technical Committee web site. The address is: http://omp.gso.uri.edu/dosits/dosits.htm.
2003 Medwin Prize in Acoustical Oceanography
Dr. Jeffrey A. Nystuen of the Applied Physics Laboratory of the University of Washington has been selected as the recipient of the 2003 Medwin Prize in Acoustical Oceanography from the Acoustical Society of America. He is receiving the Prize for the development and effective use of measurements of underwater sound generated by rain to determine rainfall rate and type at sea. He will receive the Prize and give the Medwin Prize lecture at the spring 2003 ASA meeting in Nashville. The title of the Medwin Prize lecture is "The Sound of Rainfall at Sea."
Best Student Papers in Acoustical Oceanography at the Cancun ASA Meeting
1st Place ($300): Robert Heitsenrether (Ocean Acoust. Lab., College of Marine Studies, Univ. of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716), for: 1pAO15. Influence of fetch limited surface roughness on mid-to-high frequency acoustic propagation in shallow water. Robert Heitsenrether, Mohsen Badiey, James Kirby, and Steve Forsythe
2nd Place ($200): Kelly Benoit-Bird (Hawaii Inst. of Marine Biol., P.O. Box 1106, Kailua, HI 96734), for: 1pAO10. Measuring acoustic backscattering of deepwater fish in situ using a manned submersible. Kelly Benoit-Bird, Whitlow Au, Christopher Kelley, and Christopher Taylor
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Dr. Peter Worcester
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
La Jolla, CA 92093-0225
Telephone: (858) 534-4688 ; Fax: (858) 534-6251; E-mail: pworcester@ucsd.edu