Alexander Gavrilov

Research interests

Experimental and theoretical underwater acoustics, oceanography, and signal processing.

Areas of expertise

Experimental and theoretical research in ocean acoustics and Arctic acoustics, including low frequency sound propagation, bottom-interacting acoustics, acoustic tomography of ocean environment and sea floor sediments, ice scattering, acoustic thermometry of ocean climate (ATOC), signal processing, and design of acoustic receiving arrays.

Recent relevant assignments

Participation in the international Heard Island Feasibility Test Experiment as a PI of the Russian team of R/V Akademik Andreyev (January 1990)
Participation in the US-Russian Trans-arctic Acoustic Propagation Experiment as a Co-PI of the project and Chief Scientist of Ice Camp Turpan (April 1994)
Member of the Joint US-Russian Science Working Group on Scientific and Technical Cooperation in Acoustic Thermometry of Ocean Climate (1995-present)
Participation in the US-Russian Arctic Climate Observations using Underwater Sound (ACOUS) Program and the ACOUS Experiment (1998-present) as a Co-PI of the Program
Studies of acoustic propagation loss in the Arctic Ocean conducted for Office of Naval Research (2001-2002).

Experience

2003-present: Centre for Marine Science and Technology, Professor of Marine Acoustics.
1996-2003: P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Science, Senior Research Scientist in the Wave Propagation Laboratory.
1997-2003: Science Applications International Corporation – Global Technology (Western Services Corporation since 1999), Moscow, Senior Scientist (part time).
1993-1996: Ocean Acoustic & Information Co. Ltd., Moscow, Division Senior Scientist (part time).
1989-1996: N.N. Andreyev Acoustics Institute, Moscow, Head of the Arctic Acoustics Department.
1979-1989: N.N. Andreyev Acoustics Institute, Research Scientist.

Publications

• A.N. Gavrilov and P.N. Mikhalevsky, "Acoustic thermometry in a range-dependent ocean", Proc. of 4th European Conf. on Underwater Acoustic, Rome, 1998, v.1, pp.433-439.
• A.N. Gavrilov, "On the ACOUS experiment", Proc. 7th L.M.Brekhovskikh Conf. On Underwater Acoustics, GEOS, Moscow, 1998, pp.3-8 (in Russian)
• P.N. Mikhalevsky, A.N. Gavrilov, and A.B. Baggeroer, "The Transarctic Acoustic Propagation Experiment and climate monitoring in the Arctic", IEEE J. Oceanic Eng., v. 24, No. 2, pp.182-202 (1999)
• P.N. Mikhalevsky and A.N. Gavrilov, "Acoustic thermometry in the Arctic Ocean", Proc. 5th European Conf. on Underwater Acoustic, Lyon, France, 2000, v.2, pp.1291-1296
• A.N. Gavrilov, "The present-day status and outlook of acoustic thermometry of the ocean", Proc. 10th Session of the Russian Acoust. Soc. & 8-th L.M. Brekhovskikh Conf. On Underwater Acoustics, GEOS, Moscow, 2000 (in Russian, abstract in English: http://www.akin.ru/Rao/sess10/oc2.htm)
• P.N. Mikhalevsky, A.N. Gavrilov, M.S. Moustafa, and B. Sperry, "Arctic Ocean warming: submarine and acoustic measurements", Proc. of Oceans’ 2001 IEEE Conf., Honolulu, 2001, v.3, pp.1523-1528 (Oceans2001_ArcticWarm.pdf [74KB])
• P.N. Mikhalevsky and A.N. Gavrilov, " Acoustic measure of climate change in the Arctic Ocean", Proc. 2nd Wadati Conf. on Global Change and Polar Climate, Tsukuba, Japan, 2001, v.1, pp. 433-439
• P.N. Mikhalevsky and A.N. Gavrilov, "Acoustic Thermometry in the Arctic Ocean", Polar Research, v.20, No.4, pp.185-193 (2001)
• A.N. Gavrilov and P.N. Mikhalevsky, "Mode-coupling effects in acoustic thermometry of the Arctic Ocean", in: Inverse Problems in Underwater Acoustics (M. Taroudakis and G. Makrakis, eds.), Springer-Verlag NY, 2001, pp.105-125
• A.N. Gavrilov, V.V. Goncharov, Yu.A. Chepurin, and P.N. Mikhalevsky, "Arctic Ocean warming from the data of direct oceanographic and remote acoustic measurements", Proc. 9-th L.M. Brekhovskikh Conf. On Underwater Acoustics, GEOS, Moscow, 2002, pp.92-101 (in Russian)
• A.N. Gavrilov and V.V. Goncharov, "Modelling acoustic propagation along the transarctic path of the ACOUS experiment", Proc. 9-th L.M. Brekhovskikh Conf. On Underwater Acoustics, GEOS, Moscow, 2002, pp.103-107 (in Russian)
• Yu.A. Chepurin and A.N. Gavrilov, "Filtration of acoustic modes in the Arctic waveguide", Proc. 9th L.M. Brekhovskikh Conf. On Underwater Acoustics, GEOS, Moscow, 2002, pp.182-187 (in Russian)
• A.N. Gavrilov and P.N. Mikhalevsky, "Recent results of the ACOUS Program", Proc. 6th European Conf. on Underwater Acoustic, Gdansk, Poland, 2002, pp. 595-604
• A.N. Gavrilov and P.N. Mikhalevsky, " Recent results of the ACOUS (Arctic Climate Observations using Underwater Sound) Program", Acta Acustica united with Acustica, v.88, No.5, pp.783-791 (2002, AA-AGavrilov.pdf [745KB])
• L.M. Brekhovskikh, A.N. Gavrilov, V.V. Goncharov, S.V. Pisarev, Yu.A. Chepurin, and P.N. Mikhalevsky, "ACOUS Experiment Results", Izvestiya, Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics, v.38, No.6, pp. 642-652 (2002)
• L.M. Brekhovskikh, A.N. Gavrilov, V.V. Goncharov, Yu.A. Chepurin, and P.N. Mikhalevsky, "Present-day achievements of acoustics in oceanographic research", Proc. World Ocean Conf. Of Russian Academy of Science (2003, in press).
• "Study of acoustic propagation loss in the Arctic Ocean using the data of the ACOUS experiment", Tech. Rep. by A.N. Gavrilov, Shirshov Inst. of Oceanology & Western Services Corp. for ONR, Moscow, 2002 (ONRReport.pdf [1.4MB])