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Oceanography, sound propagation in the ocean, locating sounds

Description:

Visually identify calls from whales from receivers placed on the sea-bottom north of Cape Cod.  Data will be used to determine how well sounds can be located from measurements of their times-differences-of-arrival between pairs of receivers.

Students with skills in software, mathematics, physics, and engineering might later be involved in advanced oceanographic research areas.   Send resume and transcript to John Spiesberger at johnsr@sas.upenn.edu, in the Dept. of Earth and Environmental Science.  Up to 20 hours/week. Paid positions are workstudy only.

Preferred Qualifications

General interest and/or quantitative science training in computer science, physics, math, engineering, or the like.

Project Website

Learn more about the researcher and/or the project here.
https://earth.sas.upenn.edu/people/john-spiesberger

Details:

Preferred Student Year

First-year, Second-Year, Junior, Senior

Academic Term

Fall

I prefer to have students start during the above term(s).

Volunteer

Yes

Yes indicates that faculty are open to volunteers.

Paid

No

Yes indicates that faculty are open to paying students they engage in their research, regardless of their work-study eligibility.

Work Study

Yes

Yes indicates that faculty are open to hiring work-study-eligible students.