Below: Ice-generated hydroacoustic signals recorded within the Indian Ocean. (a) Spectrogram of received signal, (b) modeled transmission loss and (c) range-dependent sound velocity structure from Wilkesland Antarctica to a receiver near southwestern Australia.

Primary Research Topics: Passive Underwater Acoustics, Seafloor Mapping, Marine Seismotectonics

Major Field Areas: Mid-Atlantic Ridge, East Pacific Rise, Bransfield Strait Antarctica, Indian Ocean Basin, Lau Basin

Opportunities for graduate Ph.D. work involving Mid-Ocean Ridge Morpho-Tectonics, Ocean Noise Studies and Submarine Earthquakes!

Cross-Disciplinary Studies:

Reef Acoustics, Environmental Geophysics