Acoustical Oceanography and Underwater Acoustics Graduate Programs at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography of the University of California, San Diego Free

The Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) of the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), has graduate programs in all areas of acoustics that intersect oceanography. These programs are associated mostly with internal SIO divisions that include the Marine Physical Laboratory, Physical Oceanography, Geophysics, and Biological Oceanography as well as SIO opportunities for other UCSD graduate students in the science and engineering departments. Course work includes basic wave physics, graduate mathematics, acoustics and signal processing, oceanography and biology, digital signal processing, and geophysics/seismology. Much of the emphasis at SIO includes at-sea experience. Recent examples of thesis research has been in marine mammal acoustics, ocean tomography and seismic/acoustic inversion methodology, acoustical signal processing, ocean ambient noise inversion, ocean/acoustic exploration, and acoustic sensing of the air-sea interaction. An overview of the SIO/UCSD graduate program is presented.