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T Leighton - Geophysical quantification of seafloor greenhouse gas

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Professor Paul White

Prof of Statistical Signal Processing

Research interests

  • Paul has research interests which include signal processing, underwater acoustics and bioacoustics (the way animals, especially marine mammals, use sound). He is primarily concerned with developing tools to assist in the computer-aided analysis of underwater sounds and understanding the role of those sounds in the marine environment.
  • Acoustics, in the form of sonar, is an important tool for the exploration of the marine environment. It is used by the seismic industry to locate oil and gas reserves, by the military to detect objects, by oceanographers to make measurements and by marine mammals to survive.
  • Man-made underwater acoustic systems rely upon computers to process the data coming from sensors to interpret the environment. The processing methods within the computer systems are a critical component often defining the overall success of the instrument.
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Email: [email protected]

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Research outputs

Broadband acoustic inversion for gas flux quantification - application to a methane plume at Scanner Pockmark, central North Sea
Jianghui Li, Ben Roche, Jonathan Bull, Paul White, Timothy Leighton, Giuseppe Provenzano, Marus Dewar & Timothy Henstock, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 125(9)
DOI: 10.1029/2020JC016360
Type: article
The response of anguilliform fish to underwater sound under an experimental setting
Mathias Deleau, Paul White, Graeme Peirson, Timothy Leighton & Paul Kemp, 2020, River Research and Applications, 36(3), 441-451
DOI: 10.1002/rra.3583
Type: article
Underwater radiated noise from hydrofoils in coastal water
Jianghui Li, Paul White, Ben Roche, John Davis & Timothy Leighton, 2019, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 146(5), 3552-3561
DOI: 10.1121/1.5134779
Type: article
Three-dimensional finite element simulation of acoustic propagation in spiral bubble net of humpback whale
Xin Qing, Paul White, Timothy Leighton, Songzuo Liu, Gang Qiao & Yu Zhang, 2019, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 146(3)
DOI: 10.1121/1.5126003
Type: article
Use of acoustics to enhance the efficiency of physical screens designed to protect downstream moving European eel (Anguilla anguilla)
Mathias J. C. Deleau, Paul R. White, Graeme Peirson, Timothy G. Leighton & Paul S. Kemp, 2019, Fisheries Management and Ecology, 27(1), 1-9
DOI: 10.1111/fme.12362
Type: article