Call for Papers
Call for Papers
ECUA 2012
11th European Conference on Underwater Acoustics
2-6 July 2012
Edinburgh Conference Centre
Heriot-Watt University
Edinburgh,
EH14 4AS UK.
Key Deadlines:
Abstract submission: 11th January, 2012
Author notification: 20th January, 2012
Final paper submission: 1st May, 2012
Use this link to submit your abstract
If you are a new user you will have to register first. You will be able to make changes to your abstract up until the abstract deadline. Please fill in all the details as this information will be used to form the proceedings. The abstract can be a max of 250 words.
Once the Abstract deadline has passed you will receive an email to ask you to submit your full paper.
At least one author must register and pay the conference fee to ensure your paper appears in the proceedings and programme.
CALL FOR PAPERS
The European Conference on Underwater Acoustics (ECUA) provides a key international forum for presentation of the latest research and developments in hydroacoustical science and engineering. It was established in 1992 by the European Commission in co-operation with three European Acoustical Societies (IOA; DEGA; SFA) and has become an established and renowned conference series. In 2012 the Institute of Acoustics (IOA) is bringing ECUA to the UK for the first time.
Conference Themes:
Contributed papers are invited in all areas of underwater acoustics. The main themes are: Underwater Acoustics; Acoustical Oceanography; Ambient and Radiated Noise; Bioacoustics; Scattering; Communications; Simulation and Modelling; Transducers and Calibration; Measurement and Signal Processing. The conference is organised around Structured Sessions, which include for ECUA 2012:
UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS
FLUCTUATIONS & SCATTERING – BARRY USCINSKI MEMORIAL SESSION
– Keynote: Terry Ewart
Peter Dobbins, Michael Ainslie & Andrew Holden
SEABED INTERACTIONS
Peter Thorne, Mike Buckingham & Mike Richardson
VOLUME SCATTERING & BUBBLY MEDIA (TBC)
R Lee Culver & Tim Leighton
ADVANCES IN FINITE-ELEMENT & SPECTRAL ELEMENT MODELLING
Mario Zampolli & Paul Cristini
VECTOR ACOUSTICS: THEORY, SENSORS & APPLICATIONS
Jean-Pierre Hermand, Tuncay Akal, Sérgio Jesus & Paulo Felisberto
SONAR PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT & MODELLING
Charles Holland, Dale Ellis & Michael Ainslie
BIOACOUSTICS
– Keynote: Peter Tyack
HEARING RESPONSE: Klaus Lucke
BIOSONAR & BIOMIMETICS: James Flint & Peter Dobbins
PROCESSING OF BIOACOUSTIC SIGNALS: Paul White
LONG-TERM MONITORING OF MARINE LIFE: THE USE OF PASSIVE ACOUSTIC DATA FOR QUANTITATIVE ESTIMATES OF ABUNDANCE: Michel André & John Hildebrand
BEHAVIOURAL RESPONSE TO UNDERWATER SOUND: Tony Hawkins, Art Popper & Jakob Tougaard
IMPACT OF UNDERWATER SOUND ON MARINE LIFE: RISK ASSESSMENT & MITIGATION: Sander van Benda-Beckmann & Martin Siderius
ACOUSTICAL OCEANOGRAPHY
SEAFLOOR CHARACTERISATION: Gary Heald & Anatoliy Ivakin
POLAR ACOUSTICS: Jarek Tegowski & Sasha Gavrilov
ACOUSTIC MAPPING FOR UNDERWATER ARCHAEOLOGY: Andrea Caiti
HABITAT MAPPING: TECHNIQUES & APPLICATIONS: Philippe Blondel
MARINE GIS & 3D/4D VISUALISATION & MAPPING: Andrzej Stepnowski
HIGH-FREQUENCY MIDWATER MAPPING: Tom Weber
MARINE RENEWABLES: MAPPING AND MONITORING OF DEVICES AND THEIR ENVIRONMENT: Philippe Blondel & Paul Lepper
AMBIENT & RADIATED NOISE
– Keynote Michel André
MONITORING TECHNIQUES & LONG-TERM TRENDS IN OCEAN AMBIENT NOISE: Mark Prior & Ross Chapman
NOISE AND VIBRATION FROM MARINE PILING: Stephen Robinson & Paul Lepper
OPERATIONAL NOISE FROM MARINE RENEWABLES: Stephen Robinson & Paul Lepper
RADIATED NOISE FROM SHIPS AND SURFACE PLATFORMS: Christ de Jong & Anton Homm
SENSORS & CALIBRATION
TRANSDUCERS: Keith Mayne & Mark Walsh
METAMATERIALS: John D. Smith & Victor Humphrey
COMMUNICATIONS & SIGNAL PROCESSING
UNDERWATER COMMUNICATIONS: Bayan Sharif, Oliver Hinton & Charalampos Tsimenidis
MODEL-BASED SIGNAL PROCESSING: Douglas Abraham
TARGET STRENGTH & SCATTERING FROM OBJECTS ON THE SEABED: Duncan Williams & Andrew Holden
AUTOMATIC TARGET RECOGNITION: Yan Pailhas & Chris Capus
SYNTHETIC APERTURE SONAR: Hans Groen & Michel Couillard
BATHYMETRY & MULTIBEAM SONAR: Mirjam Snellen & Dick Simons
NOISE CORRELATION PROCESSING (TBC): Martin Siderius & Chris Harrison
ACOUSTICS FOR OIL & GAS INDUSTRY: Robert Laws & Andrew Curtis
AUTONOMY AND UNDERWATER SENSING: Kevin LePage, Henrik Schmidt & Yvan Petillot
MARITIME SECURITY: Andrew Holden & Julian Deeks
Further details about ECUA 2012 can be found on our website at: www.ecua2012.com. The ECUA committee and IOA look forward to welcoming you to Edinburgh in 2012.
