structured sessions

The following Structured Sessions on topics of current interest in underwater acoustics are organized:

• 01. Acoustic Monitoring of Ocean Environments and Processes: Biology, Ecology, Geophysics and Man-made activities
  (presentations related to COVID-19 effects in the ocean acoustic record are highly encouraged)
  Organizer: Jennifer Miksis-Olds
  
• 02. Acoustics in polar environments
  Organizers: Jaroslaw Tegowski, Philippe Blondel, Hanne Sagen
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• 03. Advances in acoustic measurement systems: Technologies and applications, hydrophone research
  Organizer: Alessandra Tesei 
  
• 04. Comprehensive nuclear test-ban treaty monitoring
  Organizers: Georgios Haralabus, Mario Zampolli and Peter Nielsen
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• 05. Design of new experimental facilities to address future problems in underwater acoustics
  Organiser: Jean-Pierre Sessarego, Dominique Fattaccioli, Gaultier Real
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• 06. Environmental acoustics and noise- Modelling and Measurements
  Organiser: David Barclay, Alexander Gavrilov, Michael Taroudakis
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• 07. Marine Mammals Research: Acoustic perspectives
  Organizers:Angeliki Xenaki, Peter Gerstoft
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• 08. Marine sediment acoustics
  Organizers: Megan Ballard, Kevin Lee
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• 09. Modeling techniques for underwater acoustic scattering and propagation (including 3D effects)
  Organizers: Aaron Gunderson, Boris Katsnelson, Pavel Petrov
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• 10. Multibeam Echo Sounding: Bathymetry and sediment Classification
  Organizers: Dick Simons, Mirjam Snellen , Tannaz Haji Mohammadloo 
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• 11. Situation-adaptive distributed networked systems
  Organizers: Frank Ehlers, Arne Schulz  
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• 12. Sonar performance modeling and verification. Applications to active and passive sonar
  Organizers: Mathieu Colin, Mark Prior, Kevin Heaney and Dale Ellis
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• 13. Towards Automatic Target Recognition. Detection, Classification and Modelling
  Organizers: Johannes Groen, Wolfgang Jans, Yan Pailhas, Vincent Myers, Roy Edgar Hansen
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• 14. Underwater acoustic calibration, testing, facilities and standards
  Organizers: Stephen Robinson, Markus Linné, Steven Crocker
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• 15. Underwater Communications and Networking
  Organizers: Charalampos Tsimenidis, Paul Mitchell, Konstantinos Pelekanakis
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• 16. Underwater Unexploded Ordnance (UXO) Detection and Remediation
  Organizers: Wolfgang Jans, Mike Richardson, David Bradley
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The following Regular Sessions on topics of current interest in underwater acoustics are organized:

• 17. Signal Processing
• 18. Propagation Modelling II
• 19. Marine Security