ECUA 2012 - 11th European Conference on Underwater Acoustics

The European Conference on Underwater Acoustics (ECUA) provides a key international forum for presentation of the latest research and developments in hydroacoustical science and engineering. It was established in 1992 by the European Commission in co-operation with three European Acoustical Societies (IOA; DEGA; SFA) and has become an established and renowned conference series. In 2012 the Institute of Acoustics (IOA) is bringing ECUA to the UK for the first time.
Conference Themes:
Contributed papers are invited in all areas of underwater acoustics. The main themes are: Underwater Acoustics; Acoustical Oceanography; Ambient and Radiated Noise; Bioacoustics; Scattering; Communications; Simulation and Modelling; Transducers and Calibration; Measurement and Signal Processing. The conference is organised around Structured Sessions, which include for ECUA 2012:
UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS
FLUCTUATIONS & SCATTERING ? BARRY USCINSKI MEMORIAL SESSION
? Keynote: Terry Ewart
Peter Dobbins, Michael Ainslie & Andrew Holden
SEABED INTERACTIONS
Peter Thorne, Mike Buckingham & Mike Richardson
VOLUME SCATTERING & BUBBLY MEDIA (TBC)
R Lee Culver & Tim Leighton
ADVANCES IN FINITE-ELEMENT & SPECTRAL ELEMENT MODELLING
Mario Zampolli & Paul Cristini
VECTOR ACOUSTICS: THEORY, SENSORS & APPLICATIONS
Jean-Pierre Hermand, Tuncay Akal, Sérgio Jesus & Paulo Felisberto
SONAR PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT & MODELLING
Charles Holland, Dale Ellis & Michael Ainslie
BIOACOUSTICS
? Keynote: Peter Tyack
HEARING RESPONSE: Klaus Lucke
BIOSONAR & BIOMIMETICS: James Flint & Peter Dobbins
PROCESSING OF BIOACOUSTIC SIGNALS: Paul White
LONG-TERM MONITORING OF MARINE LIFE: THE USE OF PASSIVE ACOUSTIC DATA FOR QUANTITATIVE ESTIMATES OF ABUNDANCE: Michel André & John Hildebrand
BEHAVIOURAL RESPONSE TO UNDERWATER SOUND: Tony Hawkins, Art Popper & Jakob Tougaard
IMPACT OF UNDERWATER SOUND ON MARINE LIFE: RISK ASSESSMENT & MITIGATION: Sander van Benda-Beckmann & Martin Siderius
ACOUSTICAL OCEANOGRAPHY
SEAFLOOR CHARACTERISATION: Gary Heald & Anatoliy Ivakin
POLAR ACOUSTICS: Jarek Tegowski & Sasha Gavrilov
ACOUSTIC MAPPING FOR UNDERWATER ARCHAEOLOGY: Andrea Caiti
HABITAT MAPPING: TECHNIQUES & APPLICATIONS: Philippe Blondel
MARINE GIS & 3D/4D VISUALISATION & MAPPING: Andrzej Stepnowski
HIGH-FREQUENCY MIDWATER MAPPING: Tom Weber
MARINE RENEWABLES: MAPPING AND MONITORING OF DEVICES AND THEIR ENVIRONMENT: Philippe Blondel & Paul Lepper
AMBIENT & RADIATED NOISE
? Keynote Michel André
MONITORING TECHNIQUES & LONG-TERM TRENDS IN OCEAN AMBIENT NOISE: Mark Prior & Ross Chapman
NOISE AND VIBRATION FROM MARINE PILING: Stephen Robinson & Paul Lepper
OPERATIONAL NOISE FROM MARINE RENEWABLES: Stephen Robinson & Paul Lepper
RADIATED NOISE FROM SHIPS AND SURFACE PLATFORMS: Christ de Jong & Anton Homm
SENSORS & CALIBRATION
SONAR & TRANSDUCER TEST & CALIBRATION: Victor Humphrey & Pete Theobald
MULTIBEAM ECHO SOUNDER CALIBRATION METHODS: Tom Weber
TRANSDUCERS: Keith Mayne & Mark Walsh
COMMUNICATIONS & SIGNAL PROCESSING
UNDERWATER COMMUNICATIONS: Bayan Sharif, Oliver Hinton & Charalampos Tsimenidis
MODEL-BASED SIGNAL PROCESSING: Douglas Abraham
TARGET STRENGTH & SCATTERING FROM OBJECTS ON THE SEABED: Duncan Williams & Andrew Holden
AUTOMATIC TARGET RECOGNITION: Yan Pailhas & Chris Capus
SYNTHETIC APERTURE SONAR: Hans Groen & Michel Couillard
BATHYMETRY & MULTIBEAM SONAR: Mirjam Snellen & Dick Simons
NOISE CORRELATION PROCESSING (TBC): Martin Siderius & Chris Harrison
ACOUSTICS FOR OIL & GAS INDUSTRY: Robert Laws & Andrew Curtis
AUTONOMY AND UNDERWATER SENSING: Kevin LePage, Henrik Schmidt & Yvan Petillot
MARITIME SECURITY: Andrew Holden & Julian Deeks
Further details about ECUA 2012 can be found on our website at: www.ecua2012.com. The ECUA committee and IOA look forward to welcoming you to Edinburgh in 2012.