Download PDF Fall Bridge on Ocean Exploration and its Engineering Challenges September 18, 2018 Volume 48 Issue 3 This issue is dedicated to the engineering methods used to enhance understanding of the world’s oceans. Articles In This Issue Editor's Note: The Oceans of Planet Earth: Truly the Last Frontier Tuesday, September 18, 2018 AuthorAntononio Busalacchi Jr. and Cameron Fletcher The oceans have long been an important domain for exploration, resource extraction, shipping, national security, understanding of weather and climate, and more recently the emerging Blue Economy. The opening of Arctic sea lanes against the backdrop of climate change is a matter of national ... Ocean Engineering and National Uses of the Sea: The Long View Tuesday, September 18, 2018 AuthorDon Walsh Ocean engineering is an interdisciplinary field (like oceanography) that can be defined as the application of all engineering arts and sciences to ocean-related problems. Present use of the term “sea power” often implies only military uses. But in strategic maritime thought from the ... America's Ocean Observations: A Perspective Tuesday, September 18, 2018 AuthorPaul G. Gaffney II America is the greatest maritime nation, a nation whose place in the middle of the global ocean system has enabled prosperous trade and a unique security situation. Yet that ocean system is still largely unexplored, under-surveyed, and sparsely observed. A world power unavoidably dependent on the ... Ocean Observatories: An Engineering Challenge Tuesday, September 18, 2018 AuthorArthur B. Baggeroer, Bruce M. Howe, Peter N. Mikhalevsky, John Orcutt, and Henrik Schmidt Observatories are important components for ocean research in most developed countries with a coastline. For many decades oceanographic institutions followed what one might term “expeditionary research”: ships went to places to investigate various ocean processes; observations were made ... Mapping the World's Oceans Tuesday, September 18, 2018 AuthorLarry A. Mayer Mapping is fundamental for exploring, navigating, engineering, exploiting, protecting, and understanding the world. Through the great advances of modern remote sensing technology, it is now relatively simple to image and map the one-quarter of the earth’s surface that is readily visible to ... Using Noise to Image the Ocean Tuesday, September 18, 2018 AuthorWilliam A. Kuperman This article is about opportunities for using noise to image the ocean, its bottom, and objects in the water.[1] I review aspects of ocean sound propagation, sources of ocean ambient noise, and some relevant signal processing to deal with the fluctuating, incoherent nature of noise. Then, the ... Monitoring Global Sea Level Change from Spaceborne and In Situ Observing Systems Tuesday, September 18, 2018 AuthorLee-Lueng Fu and Dean H. Roemmich Sea level rise is an indicator of the extent of the warming of the Earth’s climate as well as a major threat to the world’s coastal zones. The rate of the rise of the global mean sea level has been accelerating since the Industrial Revolution, reaching over 3 mm/yr at present. New ... An Interview with... Ira Flatow of Science Friday Tuesday, September 18, 2018 AuthorIra Flatow RON LATANISION (RML): We are delighted to have you with us today, Ira. I understand you have a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering from SUNY Buffalo. Is that correct? IRA FLATOW: Yes, class of 1971. I was an engineering student and I really wasn’t enjoying it. Engineering was ...
Editor's Note: The Oceans of Planet Earth: Truly the Last Frontier Tuesday, September 18, 2018 AuthorAntononio Busalacchi Jr. and Cameron Fletcher The oceans have long been an important domain for exploration, resource extraction, shipping, national security, understanding of weather and climate, and more recently the emerging Blue Economy. The opening of Arctic sea lanes against the backdrop of climate change is a matter of national ...
Ocean Engineering and National Uses of the Sea: The Long View Tuesday, September 18, 2018 AuthorDon Walsh Ocean engineering is an interdisciplinary field (like oceanography) that can be defined as the application of all engineering arts and sciences to ocean-related problems. Present use of the term “sea power” often implies only military uses. But in strategic maritime thought from the ...
America's Ocean Observations: A Perspective Tuesday, September 18, 2018 AuthorPaul G. Gaffney II America is the greatest maritime nation, a nation whose place in the middle of the global ocean system has enabled prosperous trade and a unique security situation. Yet that ocean system is still largely unexplored, under-surveyed, and sparsely observed. A world power unavoidably dependent on the ...
Ocean Observatories: An Engineering Challenge Tuesday, September 18, 2018 AuthorArthur B. Baggeroer, Bruce M. Howe, Peter N. Mikhalevsky, John Orcutt, and Henrik Schmidt Observatories are important components for ocean research in most developed countries with a coastline. For many decades oceanographic institutions followed what one might term “expeditionary research”: ships went to places to investigate various ocean processes; observations were made ...
Mapping the World's Oceans Tuesday, September 18, 2018 AuthorLarry A. Mayer Mapping is fundamental for exploring, navigating, engineering, exploiting, protecting, and understanding the world. Through the great advances of modern remote sensing technology, it is now relatively simple to image and map the one-quarter of the earth’s surface that is readily visible to ...
Using Noise to Image the Ocean Tuesday, September 18, 2018 AuthorWilliam A. Kuperman This article is about opportunities for using noise to image the ocean, its bottom, and objects in the water.[1] I review aspects of ocean sound propagation, sources of ocean ambient noise, and some relevant signal processing to deal with the fluctuating, incoherent nature of noise. Then, the ...
Monitoring Global Sea Level Change from Spaceborne and In Situ Observing Systems Tuesday, September 18, 2018 AuthorLee-Lueng Fu and Dean H. Roemmich Sea level rise is an indicator of the extent of the warming of the Earth’s climate as well as a major threat to the world’s coastal zones. The rate of the rise of the global mean sea level has been accelerating since the Industrial Revolution, reaching over 3 mm/yr at present. New ...
An Interview with... Ira Flatow of Science Friday Tuesday, September 18, 2018 AuthorIra Flatow RON LATANISION (RML): We are delighted to have you with us today, Ira. I understand you have a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering from SUNY Buffalo. Is that correct? IRA FLATOW: Yes, class of 1971. I was an engineering student and I really wasn’t enjoying it. Engineering was ...