Weber-Shaugness Professor of Ocean Engineering
Massachusetts Insititute of Technology, Department of Ocean Engineering
Education
S.B., Physics, 1949
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
S.M., Physics, 1951
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ph.D. Physics, 1954
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Academic Employment
Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Inc.
Vice President, 1951-1970
Founder and President, General Oceanology, Inc., 1951-1969
Founder and Director, Physical Sciences Division, 1951-1968
Founder and Director, Program for Advanced Study, 1951-1967
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Senior Lecturer (visiting), 1970-1971
Director, Sea Grant Program, 1973-1975
Associate Director, Sea Grant Program, 1971-1973
Head, Department of Ocean Engineering, 1971-1981
Professor, Department of Ocean Engineering, 1971-present
Weber-Shaugness Professor of Ocean Engineering, 1989-present
Cambridge University
Visiting Fellow, Emmanuel College, and Vistor, Department of Engineering, 1979-1980
Non-Academic Activities
Member, American Geophysical Union
Chairman, U.S. Coast Guard Research Advisory Committee, 1976-1978
Member of Board of Trustees, Sea Education Association
Member, Institute of Noise Control Engineering
Honors
Fellow, Past Vice President, Past President and Recipient of the Lindsay Award, Acoustical Society of America
Member, National Academy of Engineering
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
Meritorious Public Service Award, United States Coast Guard, 1979
Distinguished Technical Contribution Award, IEEE Council on Oceanic Engineering, 1982
Robert Bruce Wallace Lecturer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982-1983
Selected Publications
"Sound Radiation into a Closed Space from Boundary Layer Turbulence," Proc. Second Symp. Naval Hydrodynamics, R.D. Cooper,
ed., Washington, D.C., 1958, pp. 151-177.
"Measurement of Noise Sources in Ducts," J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 30, 883-841, (1958).
"Response of Plates to a Decaying and Convecting Random Pressure Field," J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 31, 922-928, (1959).
"Moment Impedance of Plates," J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 32, 1290-1297, (1960).
"Estimation of Sound-Induced Missile Vibration," Chap. 9 in Random Vibration, S. H. Crandall, ed, Technology Press (John Wiley and
Sons, Inc., New York 1963), pp. 204-230.
"Statistics of Sound Propagation in the Ocean," J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 48, 337-345. (1970).
"Amplitude and Phase Fluctuation Periods for Long Range Propagation in the Ocean," J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 61, 937-942, (1977) (with G.
Shepard).
"Acoustic Backscattering from the Basin and Margins of the Arctic Ocean," J. Geophysical Res., 87, 9477-9488, (1982), (with A. B.
Baggeroer, J. D. Zittel, and R. J. Williams).
"Song of Sea Ice and Other Arctic Ocean Melodies," Proceedings, Arctic Technology and Policy, I. Dyer and C. Chyrssostomidis, eds.,Hemisphere Publishing Co., 1983.
"Noise from Arctic Ocean Earthquakes," J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 75, 819-825, (1984), (with Ruth Keenan).
"Environmental Correlates of Pack Ice Noise," J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 79, 1434-1440, 1986, (with N. Makris).
"Ocean Dynamics and Acoustic Fluctuations in the Marginal Ice Zone," SCIENCE, 435-436. April 1987. (with P. H. Dahl, A. B. Baggeroer,
and P. N. Mikhalevsky).
"Environmental Correlates of Arctic ice-edge noise," J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 90, 3288-3298, (with N. Makris), 1991.
"Discrete backscatter can be dominant in rough bottom reverberation," Ocean Reverberation, D. D. Ellis et al. eds, Kluwer Academic
Publishers 1993, pp. 51-57, (with A. B. Baggeroer, H. Schmidt, J. R. Fricke, N. Ozluer, and D. Giannoni).
"Source Mechanisms for Arctic Ocean Ambient Noise," Natural Process of Sea Surface Noise, B. R. Kerman, ed., Kluwer Academic
Publishers, 1993.
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