Marine Acoustics Laboratory of IO PAS

MARINE ACOUSTICS LABORATORY
(PRACOWNIA AKUSTYKI MORZA)

Marine Acoustics Laboratory

The people

Prof. Zygmunt Klusek - Head of Marine Physics Department	klusek
Assoc. Prof. Joanna Szczucka - Head of the Laboratory	szczucka
Dr. Eng. Aleksandra Kruss	kruss
M.Sc. Agata Dragan	adragan
M.Sc. Piotr Majewski	piotr_m
M.Sc. Eng. Łukasz Wysocki	wysocki
M.Sc. Eng. Jakub Dębowski	debowski
Jan Wejer	jwejer

The People

Main fields of activity

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Acoustical species identification of plankton, fish and sea vegetation

        - numerical modelling of sound scattering at single and aggregated biological targets (fish and zooplankton)
   - acoustical detection and classification of underwater meadow
       - acoustical observation of behaviour of biological objects

rura
Three frequency echosounder (60, 120, 210 kHz) working from r/v Oceania .

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Acoustical classification and identification of bottom sediments

- measurements and data processing

- modelling of sound scattering at rough bottom

- algorithms of bottom sediments identification

- nonlinear methods of gas bubbles detection (trapped in bottom sediments)

wiak
V-fin body & three frequency echosounder onboard r/v Oceania .

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Acoustical study of hydrodynamical processes

- noise generated by breaking waves

- noise generated by rain

- gas bubbles detection in waterbody using linear and nonlinear methods

rama
Transducers for nonlinear experiment

Numerical models of the propagation of acoustical waves

     - mode models,
     - parabolic equation,
     - geometrical acoustics - simulation of sonar work.

Publications & Conferences:

Research projects in the course:

Voices of the Baltic seals (page in Polish)

You may browse through the Acoustics part of Regional Oceanographic Database

Any comments, suggestion,proposition?

Kazimierz Groza 29.05.2007