Students in the Ocean Acoustics Department at the Applied Physics Laboratory (APL)

Several investigators in the Ocean Acoustics Department at APL hold joint appointments with Oceanography (OCEAN), Electrical Engineering (EE), Mechanical Engineering (ME), or Earth and Space Sciences (ESS). Graduate students can therefore work under the tutelage of OA investigators through there respective departments. Prospective students are urged to contact members of OA group directly, or the APL student liason , prior to submitting an applications to the home department.

OA and affiliated reseachers with joint appointments:

Kevin Williams (Ocean)
Peter Dahl (ME)
Bob Odom (ESS)
Eric Thorsos (EE)
Jim Mercer (ESS)
Warren Fox (EE)

Current graduate students in the OA Department:

Mike Yargus (EE)
Daren Soukup (ESS)

In addition to the core courses of a student's home department (Oceanography, EE, ESS, etc.) possible courses relevant to the subject of ocean acoustics that a student might take are:

School of Oceanography:

OCEAN 510 Physics of Ocean Circulation
OCEAN 512 Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
OCEAN 514 Waves
OCEAN 535 Biological Oceanography for Physical Scientists
OCEAN 540 Marine Geological Processes
OCEAN 541 Marine Sedimentary Processes
OCEAN 542 Sediment Dynamics and Boundary-Layer Physics
OCEAN 560 Atmosphere/Ocean Interactions
OCEAN 569 Acoustical Oceanography

College of Engineering:

E E 466 Design in Electromagnetics, Optics, and Acoustics
E E 501 Radar Remote Sensing
E E 505 Probability and Random Processes
E E 508 Stochastic Processes
E E 518 Digital Signal Processing
E E 519 Stochastic Analysis of Data From Physical Systems
E E 520 Spectral Analysis of Time Series
E E 524 Waves in Random Media II
M E 525,526 Acoustics in Engineering I,II
E E 570 Antenna Engineering
E E 573 Electromagnetic Computations and Applications I
E E 572 Electromagnetic Theory and Applications I
E E 575 Waves in Random Media
E E 578 Microwave Detection and Imaging Techniques
E E 579 Advanced Topics in Electromagnetics, Optics, and Acoustics

College of Earth and Space Sciences (ESS)

GPHYS 401/501 Geophysical Continuum Mechanics
GPHYS 402/502 Seismology
GPHYS 541/542 Theoretical Seismology I,II
GPHYS 551 / OCEAN 551 Marine Seismology
GPHYS 563 Geophysical Data Collection and Analysis
GPHYS 564 Geophysical Inverse Theory

The University of Washington's entire course catalog can be found HERE .