Instructors
For more than sixty years, Penn State's Applied Research Laboratory (ARL) has been actively involved in the acoustic aspects of naval underwater weapons systems—from the formulation
and analysis of advanced concepts through the detailed orchestration of field programs and prototype equipment. The instructors selected for this course are all staff and faculty
members of ARL; all are experienced educators, involved in both the theoretical and the practical aspects of the material they present, and are available to confer with individual
participants about particular questions or problems.
D. Christopher Barber, a research associate at ARL, holds a Ph.D. in acoustics. His experience in underwater acoustics over the last eighteen years includes ship
acoustic trials, sonar system self-noise testing, sonar performance evaluation, and ship-silencing research. His current research includes new methods for ship-radiated noise
characterization; short-range, shallow-water acoustic propagation; and applications of acoustic intensity techniques.
Kyle M. Becker, a research associate at ARL, holds a Ph.D. in applied ocean science. He is actively engaged in both theoretical and experimental studies in underwater acoustics and acoustical oceanography. His research interests include scattering from rough surfaces, the impact of water column and seabed variability on low-frequency propagation, and inverse problems.
David L. Bradley, a senior scientist at ARL, holds a Ph.D. in acoustics. He is investigating sound propagation and modeling of the impact of ocean boundaries on the acoustic field, and inhomogeneous (bubble-filled) media.
R. Lee Culver, a research associate at ARL, holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering. He has spent more than sixteen years conducting ocean acoustics experiments,
including very-low-frequency ambient and ship-radiated noise measurements and higher-frequency environmental acoustics measurements.
Anthony P. Lyons, a senior research associate at ARL, holds a Ph.D. in oceanography, and has spent more than a decade conducting theoretical and experimental
investigations in underwater acoustics. He is currently engaged in studies of high-frequency shallow-water propagation, acoustic interaction with the seafloor, and high-resolution
characterization of seafloor sediments.
Martin A. Mazur, an associate research engineer at ARL, holds a Ph.D. in acoustics. His research experience is in underwater acoustic propagation. He has nearly
twenty years of experience in satellite communications system analysis; sonar system analysis and simulation; signal processing; and tracking, guidance, and control algorithms for
autonomous vehicles.
Francis R. Menotti, a research associate at ARL, holds a Ph.D. in physics. His research experience of more than thirty years has focused on the physics of scattering
processes both at the molecular level and, for the last sixteen years, in underwater acoustics. His current interest is the active acoustic response of submarines and surface ship
wakes.
Thomas C. Montgomery, a research associate at ARL, holds a Ph.D. in engineering acoustics. For more than twenty years he has worked on the design and fabrication
of underwater transducers and sonar systems. His current research interests include broadband transducer arrays, synthetic aperture sonar (SAS), and transduction materials
characterization.
Jon Reeves, a senior research associate at ARL, holds a Ph.D. in acoustics and has more than twenty-six years of experience in underwater acoustics and signal
processing. His current projects include both basic and applied research in broadband techniques in the undersea littoral environment.
Richard L. Tutwiler, a senior research associate at ARL, holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering. His research interests are ultrasonic imaging architectures, 3D
image reconstruction, parallel processing, image processing/analysis, and pattern recognition.
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