Student Opportunities

The School of Earth and Ocean Sciences (SEOS) offers the following courses in ocean acoustics at the graduate level.

EOS 516A: Ocean Acoustics I

This course provides an introduction to the ocean as an acoustic medium, sound sources in the ocean, ray theory, normal modes, reflection and refraction processes at ocean boundaries and discusses sound propagation in deep and shallow water. The basic concepts are applied to special topics such as parabolic equation propagation models, sound propagation in bubbly fluids and ambient noise models.

EOS 516B: Ocean Acoustics II

This course deals with theory and applications of ocean acoustic propagation modelling and acoustic signal processing. Propagation modelling topics to be considered include the normal-mode model, including adiabatic and coupled modes and the ray-mode equivalence, and wave number integration methods. Applications to acoustic interaction with the seabed, such as reflection from elastic media, are considered. Signal processing topics include the sonar equation, plane-wave
beamforming techniques, and matched-field processing and inversion.

EOS 526: Selected Topics in Geophysics: Inverse theory

Inverse theory and its applications in Earth and Ocean Sciences. Topics include non-uniqueness, general linear least-squares, singular-value decomposition, regularization, empirical orthogonal functions, iterative inverse methods such as simulated annealing and genetic algorithms. Applications will be drawn from the research literature and include topics such as inversion of geo-electromagnetic
and seismic data, tomography, model decomposition, matched-field inversion, satellite remote sensing and physical oceanography.

Information on other courses is available at the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences web site. Information on admissions into graduate programs at the University of Victoria is available at the Graduate Admissions web site.

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