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Showing 1 to 20 of 85 for “"Joint Program in Applied Ocean Science and Engineering."”.
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A distributed approach to underwater acoustic communications
Thesis (S.M.)--Joint Program in Applied Ocean Science and Engineering (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Ocean Engineering; and, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), 2003.
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Vortical patterns behind a tapered cylinder
Thesis (M.S.)--Joint Program in Applied Ocean Science and Engineering (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Ocean Engineering; and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), 1998.
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Search methods for an autonomous underwater vehicle using scalar measurements
Thesis (S.M.)--Joint Program in Applied Ocean Science and Engineering (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Ocean Engineering; and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), 1996.
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Large area underwater mosaicing for scientific applications by Oscar Pizarro.
Thesis (S.M.)--Joint Program in Applied Ocean Science and Engineering (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Ocean Engineering; and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), 2003.
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Free-surface turbulence and air-water gas exchange
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Joint Program in Applied Ocean Science and Engineering (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Ocean Engineering; and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), 2000.
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Directional wavenumber characteristics of short sea waves
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Joint Program in Applied Ocean Science and Engineering (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Ocean Engineering; and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), 2000.
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Observations and modeling of sand transport in a wave dominated environment
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Joint Program in Applied Ocean Science and Engineering (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Ocean Engineering; and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), 1998.
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Underwater object localization using a biomimetic binaural sonar
Thesis (S.M. in Oceanographic Engineering)--Joint Program in Applied Ocean Science and Engineering (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Ocean Engineering; and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), 1999.
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An investigation of shallow water mode coupling effects during single mode transmission
Thesis (M.S.)--Joint Program in Applied Ocean Science and Engineering (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), 1994.
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Analysis of acoustic propagation in the region of the New England continental shelfbreak
During July and August of 1996, a large acoustics/physical oceanography experiment was fielded in the Mid-Atlantic Bight, south of Nantucket Island, MA. Known as the Shelfbreak Front PRIMER Experiment, the study combined acoustic data from a moored array of sources and receivers with very high …
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Defining the ecological and physiological traits of phytoplankton across marine ecosystem
Marine phytoplankton are central players in the global carbon cycle, responsible for nearly half of global primary production. The identification of the factors controlling phytoplankton ecology, physiology, and, ultimately, bloom dynamics has been a central problem in the field of biological …
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Phenotypic diversity within two toxic dinoflagellate genera : environmental and transcriptomic studies of species diversity in alexandrium and gambierdiscus
Dinoflagellates are a diverse group of single-celled eukaryotic phytoplankton that are important for their unique genetics and molecular biology, the multitude of ecological roles they play, and the ability of multiple species to produce toxins that affect human and ecosystems health. Two …
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Effects and added drag on cetaceans : fishing gear entanglement and external tag
Animal movement is motivated in part by energetic constraints, where fitness is maximized by minimizing energy consumption. The energetic cost of movement depends on the resistive forces acting on an animal; changes in this force balance can occur naturally or unnaturally. Fishing gear that …
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Characterization of underwater target geometry from autonomous underwater vehicle sampling of bistatic acoustic scattered fields
… goals of Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) minehunting is to have multiple inexpensive AUVs in a harbor autonomously classify hazards. Existing acoustic methods for target classification using AUV-based sensing, such as sidescan and synthetic aperture sonar, require an expensive payload on …
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Coastal ocean variability off the coast of Taiwan in response to typhoon Morakot : river forcing, atmospheric forcing, and cold dome dynamics
The ocean is a complex, constantly changing, highly dynamical system. Prediction capabilities are constantly being improved in order to better understand and forecast ocean properties for applications in science, industry, and maritime interests. Our overarching goal is to better predict the ocean …
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Perception-driven optimal motion planning under resource constraints
… the past few years there has been a new wave of interest in fully autonomous robots operating in the real world, with applications from autonomous driving to search and rescue. These robots are expected to operate at high speeds in unknown, unstructured environments using only onboard sensing and …
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Physical control of the distributions of a key Arctic copepod in the Northeast Chukchi Sea
… is one of the most important zooplankton taxa in the Arctic shelf seas where it serves as a key grazer, predator, and food source. Its summer distribution and abundance has direct effects on much of the food web, from blooming phytoplankton to migrating bowhead whales. The Chukchi Sea …
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Development and deployment of a novel deep-sea in situ bubble sampling instrument for understanding the fate of methane in the water column
… is a potent greenhouse gas that is often found in a solid, hydrate clathrate form in marine sediments along continental margins and will often escape from the seafloor and rise through the water column as bubbles. The estimated marine methane hydrate inventory is over 600 times greater than the …
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Measurements and dynamics of multiple scale bedforms in tidally energetic environments
… tidal environments. Due to their wide range in scale, it is difficult to simultaneously observe these features over tidal timescales. This thesis examines the morphological response of superimposed bedforms to a tidally reversing flow using novel instrumentation and platform systems. A method …
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Real time bottom reverberation simulation in deep and shallow ocean environments
Due to the costs involved and time required to perform experiments at sea, it is important to provide accurate simulations of the ocean environment. Using the ray tracing code, BELLHOP, the Mission Oriented Operating Suite (MOOS), methods outlined by the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) for bottom …
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