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MIT Sea Grant College Program & the Department of Mechanical Engineering's Center for Ocean Engineering Underwater Acoustic Communication, Vehicles, Environmental Observation Systems and Marine Mammals Dr. John R. Potter Acoustic Research Laboratory, Singapore Thursday 14 September, 2006 3:00pm – 5:00pm Seminar: Room 1-190, 3:00pm – 4:00pm Reception: Room 5-314, following seminar
The Acoustic Research Laboratory (ARL) in Singapore conducts fundamental and applied research in marine acoustics and has the long-term goal of providing Singapore with a self-contained marine acoustics research centre of excellence. The ARL is staffed by an international group of researchers with varied backgrounds in electronic and mechanical engineering, physics, mathematics, music, biology and the cognitive sciences. Together they span a wide range of apparently loosely-connected interests clustered around underwater acoustics. This presentation will offer a kaleidoscopic view of the ARL’s current work on acoustic communication, emergent behavior, underwater vehicles, environmental monitoring, and studies on the indigenous marine inhabitants who are masters of all these fields: marine mammals. URL: http://www.arl.nus.edu.sg/web/home John R. Potter founded the Acoustic Research Laboratory in Singapore 1996. He is also an Associate Director of the Tropical Marine Science Institute and an Associate Editor of the IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering. Previously Dr. Potter worked on acoustic propagation variability at the NATO SACLANT Undersea Research Centre in Italy, and on underwater acoustic imaging and marine mammals at Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) in San Diego. Joint Honours in Mathematics and Physics, Bristol University, 1979 Ph.D. in Oceanography & Glaciology, Univ. Cambridge, 1985 |
