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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

The acoustic bubble: ocean, cetacean and extraterrestrial acoustics, and cold water cleaning
2017, Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 797, 1-23
DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/797/1/012001
Type: article
Extraterrestrial sound for planetaria: a pedagogical study
Timothy Leighton, Nikhil Banda, Benoit Berges, Phillip Joseph & Paul White, 2016, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 140(2), 1469-1480
DOI: 10.1121/1.4960785
Type: article
Sonar equations for planetary exploration
2016, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 140(2), 1400-1419
DOI: 10.1121/1.4960786
Type: article
Modelling acoustic scattering, sound speed, and attenuation in gassy soft marine sediments
Agni Mantouka, Hakan Dogan, Paul White & Timothy Leighton, 2016, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 140(1), 274-282
DOI: 10.1121/1.4954753
Type: article
Anthropogenic sources of underwater sound can modify how sediment-dwelling invertebrates mediate ecosystem properties
Martin Solan, Chris Hauton, Jasmin A. Godbold, Christina L. Wood, Timothy G. Leighton & Paul White, 2016, Scientific Reports, 6
DOI: 10.1038/srep20540
Type: article