Acoustics play a central role in humankind's interactions with the ocean and the life within.
Passive listening to ocean “soundscapes” informs us about the physical and bio-acoustic …

Marine mammals face a large array of stressors, including loss of habitat, chemical and
noise pollution, and bycatch in fishing, which alone kills hundreds of thousands of marine …

Presented in a clear and concise way as an introductory text and practical handbook, the
book provides the basic physical phenomena governing underwater acoustical waves …

This book provides an up-to-date introduction to the theory of sound propagation in the
ocean. The text treats both ray and wave propagation and pays considerable attention to …

This book is written for upper-division undergraduates and new graduate students in
meteorology, ocean engineering, and oceanography. Because these students have a …

This is the story of the marriage of two disciplines: physical oceanography and ocean
acoustics. It was a marriage of convenience, but with mutual respect, even love. I have spent …

Shallow water acoustics (SWA), the study of how low and medium frequency sound
propagates and scatters on the continental shelves of the worlds oceans, has both technical …

The impact of anthropogenic noise on marine mammals has been an area of increasing
concern over the past two decades. Most low-frequency anthropogenic noise in the ocean …

In recent years, it has become common for opponents of environmental action to argue that
the scientific basis for purported harms is uncertain, unreliable, and fundamentally …

Attention has been drawn to the subject of how ocean noise affects marine mammals by a
series of marine mammal strandings, lawsuits, and legislative hearings, and most recently …