CAPABILITY STATEMENT

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).

EDUCATION:
M.S. degree in physics received in Moscow State University, Physics Department (1979);
Ph.D. degree in physics and mathematics received in N.N. Andreyev Acoustics Institute (1995);

EXPERIENCE RECORD:
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;

OVERSEAS ASSIGNMENTS:
Participant, as a researcher/chief scientist, of 10 Polar expeditions at drifting ice stations (1-3 months long) and 2 scientific cruises (2 and 4 months long) on research vessels;

LANGUAGES AND DEGREE OF PROFICIENCY:
Russian: native
English: reading, writing and speaking - vocational

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS (1998 - 2002):

• A.N. Gavrilov and P.N. Mikhalevsky, "Acoustic thermometry in a range-dependent ocean", Proc. of 4-th European Conf. on Underwater Acoustic, Rome, 1998, v.1, pp.433-439;
• A.N. Gavrilov, "On the ACOUS experiment", Proc. 7-th 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. 5-th 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. 10-th 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. 9-th 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. 6-th 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])