Eva-Marie Nosal

 Professor and Graduate Chair

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  • 2540 Dole Street, Holmes Hall 401
    Honolulu, HI 96822 USA
  • nosal@hawaii.edu

Passive acoustic monitoring methods, ocean ambient noise, sediment acoustics, bioacoustics, signal processing, inverse methods

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Professional Qualifications

  • PhD Geology and Geophysics, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, 2007
  • MSc Applied Mathematics, University of British Columbia, 2003
  • BSc Pure Mathematics (first class honors), University of Calgary, 2000
  • BSc Applied Mathematics (first class honors), University of Calgary, 2000
  • BMus Piano Performance (with distinction), University of Calgary, 2000

Professional Experience

  • Department of Ocean and Resources Engineering, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
    • Professor and Graduate Chair, 2024-present
    • Department Chair, 2016 – 2021
    • Associate Professor with tenure, 2014 – 2024
    • Assistant Professor, 2008 – 2014
  • Abakai International LLC. President and Senior Scientist,  2010 – present
  • Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
    • Assistant Researcher, 2008
    • Teaching and Research Assistant, 2003-2007
  • Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of British Columbia, Research Assistant, 2001-2002
  • Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of British Columbia, Teaching Assistant, 2000
  • Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Calgary, Teaching and Research Assistant, 1998-2000
  • STATSCON Statistical Consulting, Analyst, Modeler, Programmer, 1995-2002

Publications

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Book chapters
  1. Mellinger DK, MA Roch, Nosal E-M, H Klinck (2016). Signal Processing. In: Eds. WWL Au and MO Lammers, Listening in the Ocean – New Discoveries and Insights on Marine Life from Autonomous Passive Acoustic Recorders. Springer-Verlag New York. url
  2. Nosal E-M (2013). Chapter 8: Model-based marine mammal localization methods. In: Eds. O Adam and F Samaran, Detection Classification and Localization of Marine Mammal using Passive Acoustics – 10 years of progress. Dirac NGO, Paris. pdf
Peer-reviewed journal papers
  1. Fleishman E, D Cholewiak, D Gillespie, T Helble, H Klinck, E-M Nosal, MA Roch (2023). Ecological inferences about marine mammals from passive acoustic data (BRV-11-2022-0333). Biological Reviews. pdf
  2. Li P, MA Roch, H Klinck, E Fleishman, D Gillespie, E-M Nosal, Y Shiu, X Liu (2023). Learning Stage-wise GANs for Whistle Extraction in Time-Frequency Spectrograms. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. pdf
  3. Conant* PC, P Li, X Liu, H Klinck, E Fleishman, D Gillespie, E-M Nosal, MA Roch (2022). Silbido profundo: An open source package for the use of deep learning to detect odontocete whistles. JASA 152(6) 3800–3808. DOI: 10.1121/10.0016631. pdf
  4. Gruden P, Nosal E-M, Oleson E (2021). Tracking time differences of arrivals of multiple sources in the presence of clutter and missed detections. JASA 150(5), 3399-3416. DOI: 10.1121/10.0006780. pdf
  5. Barkley* Y, Nosal E-M, Oleson E (2021). Model-based localization of deep-diving cetaceans using towed line array acoustic data. JASA 150 (2) 1120-1132. DOI: 10.1121/10.0005847. pdf
  6. Madhusudhana S, Y Shiu, H Klinck, E Fleishman, X Liu, E-M Nosal, T Helble, D Cholewiak, D Gillespie, A Širović, MA Roch (2021). Improve automatic detection of animal call sequences with temporal context. Journal of Royal Society Interface 18: 20210297. available here
  7. Shiu Y, Palmer KJ, Roch MA, Fleishman E, Liu X, Nosal E-M, Helble T, Cholewiak D, Gillespie D, Klinck H (2020). Deep neural networks for automated detection of marine mammal species. Scientific Reports 10(1):607. available here
  8. Young* J, Høst-Madsen A, Nosal E-M (2019).  Deinterleaving of Mixtures of Renewal Processes. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing 67(4), 885-898. pdf
  9. Scherrer* S, Rideout* BP, Giorli G, Nosal E-M,  Weng KC (2018). Depth- and range-dependent variation in the performance of aquatic telemetry systems: Understanding and predicting the susceptibility of acoustic tag–receiver pairs to close proximity detection interference. PeerJ 6:e4249; DOI 10.7717/peerj.4249. pdf
  10. Gemba* K, Nosal E-M, Reed T (2017). Estimating and removing colorations from the deconvolved impulse response of an underwater acoustic channel. JASA 141 (1), EL 6-10. pdf
  11. Gemba* K, Nosal E-M (2016). Source characterization using recordings made in a reverberant underwater channel. Applied Acoustics 105, 24-34. pdf
  12. Van Uffelen LJ, Howe BM, Nosal E-M, Carter GS, Worcester PF, and Dzieciuch MA (2015). Localization and subsurface position error estimation of gliders using broadband acoustic signals at long range. IEEE J. Ocean. Eng. 99, 1-8. pdf
  13. Gemba* K, Nosal E-M, Reed T (2014). Partial dereverberation used to characterize open circuit scuba diver signatures. JASA 136(2), 623-633. pdf
  14. VanUffelen L, Nosal E-M, Howe B, Carter G, Worcester PF, Dzieciuch MA, Heaney KD, Campbell RL, Cross PS (2013). Estimating uncertainty in subsurface glider position using transmissions from fixed acoustic tomography sources. JASA 134(4) Pt.2, 3260-3271. pdf
  15. Nosal E-M (2013). Methods for tracking multiple marine mammals with wide-baseline passive acoustic arrays. JASA 134(3), 2383-2392. pdf
  16. Stimpert AK, Mattila D, Nosal E-M, Au WWL (2012). Tagging young humpback whale calves: Methodology, dive behavior, and acoustics. Endangered Species Res. 19, 11-17. pdf
  17. Duennebier F, Lukas R, Nosal E-M, Aucan J, Weller R (2012). Wind, waves, and acoustic background levels at Station ALOHA. Journal of Geophysical Research. 117, 21 pages, C03017. pdf
  18. Fedenczuk T, Nosal E-M (2011). Hawaii experimental acoustics range (HEAR) for shallow water applications. Journal of the Marine Technology Society 45(3), 69-76. pdf
  19. Nosal E-M, Tau C, Baffi S, Wilkens R, Fu SS, Richardson M (2008). Compressional wave velocity and attenuation in carbonate sediments of Kaneohe Bay, Oahu. IEEE J. Oceanic Eng. 33(4), 367-374. pdf
  20. Nosal E-M, Frazer LN (2008). Pair-wise spectrogram processing used to track a sperm whale. Canadian Acoustics 36(1), 132-138. pdf
  21. Nosal E-M, Frazer LN (2007). Modified pair-wise spectrogram processing for localization of unknown broadband sources. IEEE J. Oceanic Eng. 32(3), 721-728. pdf
  22. Nosal E-M, Frazer LN (2007). Sperm whale 3D track, swim orientation, beam pattern, and click levels observed on bottom-mounted hydrophones. JASA 122(4), 1969-1978. pdf
  23. Nosal E-M, Frazer LN (2006). Track of a sperm whale from delays between direct and surface-reflected clicks. Applied Acoustics, 67, 1187-1201. pdf
  24. Hodgson M, Nosal E-M (2006). Experimental evaluation of radiosity for room sound-field prediction JASA 120 (2), 808-819. pdf
  25. Nosal E-M, Hodgson M, Ashdown I (2004). Investigation of the validity of radiosity for sound-field prediction in cubic rooms JASA 116 (6), 3505-3514. pdf
  26. Nosal E-M, Hodgson M, Ashdown I (2004). Improved algorithms and methods for room sound-field prediction by acoustical radiosity in arbitrary polyhedral rooms. JASA 116 (2), 970-980. pdf
  27. Hodgson M, Nosal E-M (2002). Effect of noise and occupancy on optimum reverberation time for speech intelligibility in classrooms. JASA 111(2), 9931-939. pdf
Peer-reviewed conference papers
  1. Gruden P, E-M Nosal, E Henderson (2024). Automated Acoustic Tracking of a Sperm Whale (Physeter macrocephalus) using a Wide Baseline Array of Sensors. 2024 27th International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION). pdf
  2. Li P, Liu X, Palmer K, Fleishman E, Gillespie D, Nosal E-M, Shiu Y, Klinck H, Cholewiak D, Helble T, Roch M (2020). Learning Deep Models from Synthetic Data for Extracting Dolphin Whistle Contours. International Joint Conference on Neural Networks 2020 Glasgow, UK. pdf
  3. Young* J, Host-Madsen A, Nosal E-M (2013). Impulsive source separation with application to sperm whale clicks, Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE Digital Signal Processing workshop, Napa California. pdf
  4. Nosal E-M, Nosal M (2009). Passive acoustic monitoring of surface vessel activity. Proceedings of the ASME 28th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering, Honolulu, May 2009, 5pp. pdf
Magazine articles
  1. Nosal E-M, Frazer LN (2006). Pair-wise processing of spectrograms for localization of multiple broadband CW sources. Newsletter of the IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society, Winter 2006. pdf
Conference papers (not reviewed)
  1. Rideout* BP, Nosal E-M, Host-Madsen A (2016). Blind channel estimation of underwater acoustic waveguide impulse responses using marine mammal vocalizations. Canadian Acoustics 44(3), 2pp. pdf
  2. Lammers MO, Howe M, Engelhaupt A, Zang E, Munger L, Nosal E-M (2016). Acoustic monitoring of dolphin occurrence and activity in a MINEX training range. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics 27(1), 7pp. pdf
  3. VanUffelen L, Howe B, Nosal E-M, Carter G, Worcester P, Dzieciuch M (2013). Long-range glider localization using broadband acoustic signals and a linearized model of glider motion. Proceedings of MTS/IEEE OCEANS’13 San Diego, Sept. 2013. pdf
  4. VanUffelen L, Nosal E-M, Howe B, Carter G, Worcester P, Dzieciuch M, Heaney K, Campbell R, Cross P. (2013) Towards subsurface positioning of gliders using fixed acoustic tomography sources. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics Vol. 19, 4pp. pdf
  5. Gemba* K, Nosal E-M (2013) Source signature characterization and detection of open-circuit SCUBA regulators. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics Vol. 19, 4pp. pdf
  6. Howe B, Bingham B, Carter G, Duennebier F, Kraus N, Nosal E-M, Roth E, VanUffelen L (2013). Acoustics in ocean observing: From abyssal cabled systems to gliders. International conference & exhibition on underwater acoustics, Corfu Greece, June 2013. pdf
  7. Norris T, Martin S, Thomas L, Yack T, Oswald JN, Nosal E-M, V Janik (2011) Acoustic Ecology and Behavior of Minke Whales in the Hawaiian and Marianas Islands: Localization, Abundance Estimation and Characterization of Minke Whale ”Boings” in eds Popper, Hawkins: The effects of noise on aquatic life: Second international congress, Springer. pdf
  8. Howe B, VanUffelen L, Carter G, Nosal E-M (2011). Acoustic seagliders in PhilSea10: Preliminary results. Proceedings of MTS/IEEE OCEANS’11 Kona, Sept. 2011. pdf
  9. Nosal E-M, Fedenczuk T (2010). Measured and modeled high-frequency acoustic impulse responses in very shallow water. Proceedings of the 2nd International Waterside Security Conference, Marina di Carrara, Italy. pdf
  10. Fedenczuk T, Nosal E-M, Suka* R, Diguc* W, Olson J (2010). Timing synchronization of independent transmitting and receiving acoustic devices. Proceedings of the 2nd International Waterside Security Conference, Marina di Carrara, Italy. pdf
  11. Nosal E-M (2008). Flood-fill algorithms used for passive acoustic detection and tracking. Proceedings of Passive ’08: New trends for environmental monitoring using passive systems, Hyeres, France, October 2008, 5pp. pdf
  12. Nosal E-M, Frazer LN (2005). Pair-wise processing of spectrograms for localization of multiple broadband CW sources. Proceedings of IEEE Oceans ’05, Brest, France, June 2005. pdf
  13. Nosal M, Nosal EM, Nosal E-M (2004). Spectral coherence analysis of killer whale (Orcinus orca) vocalizations. Proceedings of the 2004 Hawaii International Conference on Statistics, Mathematics and Related Fields in Honolulu HI, June 2004. pdf
  14. Nosal M, Nosal EM, Nosal E-M (2003). Three-parameter Weibull generator for replacing missing observations. Proceedings of the 2003 Hawaii International Conference on Statistics and Related Fields, Honolulu HI, June 2003. pdf
  15. Nosal M, Nosal EM, Nosal E-M (2003). WWW based statistical resources center in JAVA. Proceedings of the World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications, Honolulu, HI vol. 2, 1344-1353, June 2003. pdf
  16. Nosal E-M, Hodgson M (2002). Preliminary experimental validation of the radiosity technique for predicting room sound fields. Proceedings of the Forum Acusticum Sevilla (the Third European Congress on Acoustics) in Seville, Spain, Sept. 2002. pdf
  17. Nosal E-M (1999). Can One Hear the Shape of a Drum? Proceedings of the Canadian Undergrad. Math Conference, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada, May 1999. pdf

Sponsored Research

Current Projects

  • Understanding the Acoustic Near-field of the Kauai Beacon
    PI: Eva-Marie Nosal; Co-PIs: Bruce Howe, Kai Gemba (Naval Postgraduate School)
    Sponsor: Office of Naval Research, Ocean Acoustics
    Previous studies have demonstrated the significant influence of near-field interactions between acoustic signals and the seafloor on long-range sound propagation. This study aims to expand upon these findings by examining the impact of local bathymetry and seabed properties on signals generated by the Kauai Beacon and received at the ALOHA Cabled Observatory, the deep portion of the Pacific Missile Test Range and ship or AUV deployed hydrophones in the area. Two and three-dimensional ray and parabolic equation models will be used to calculate along range and cross-range scattering of the signal. By considering the near-field effects in response to bathymetry and seabed in three dimensions, this work will contribute to understanding factors at play in long-range propagation, ultimately assisting in improving long-range acoustic applications, e. g., navigation and tomography. Additionally, this work will begin a publicly accessible long-term data time series of the signal to understand the ocean fluctuations, building upon the earlier Hawaii Ocean Mixing Experiment.
  • MAMBAT (Multiple-Animal Model-Based Acoustic Tracking): Improving underwater passive acoustic multi-target tracking methods
    PI: Eva-Marie Nosal; Co-PI: Pina Gruden (CIMAR)
    In collaboration Elizabeth Henderson (Navy Marine Mammal Program, NIWC Pacific) and Erin Oleson (Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, NOAA)
    Sponsor: Office of Naval Research, Marine mammals & biological oceanography
    This project aims to improve model-based passive acoustic methods for tracking multiple marine mammals, and to apply methods to new and challenging practical scenarios. We are developing and integrating a non-traditional multi-target tracking framework based on random finite sets to advance multiple-animal model-based methods. We aim to automate simultaneous tracking of multiple sources with diverse characteristics (broadband and narrowband), without requiring prior association, classification or source separation steps. The framework will be computationally efficient and will incorporate missed detections, false alarms, and source appearance and disappearance in the problem formulation. While the ultimate aim is to develop framework that is platform agnostic, method development will motivated by, tested on, and applied to large bottom mounted arrays (AUTEC and PMRF) and drifting 2-element vertical arrays (DASBRS).

Completed Projects

  • Cetacean Acoustic Research in support of the PIFSC Cetacean Research Program
    In collaboration with Pina Gruden (CIMAR)
    Client: NOAA Pacific Island Fisheries Science Center via the Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research
  • DCLDE 2022, 9th Workshop on Detection, Classification, Localization and Density Estimation of Marine Mammals using Passive Acoustics
    Chairs: Eva-Marie Nosal and Erin Oleson
    Planning, preparation and organization for the 9th International workshop on detection, classification, localization, and density estimation of marine mammals using passive acoustics
  • Single sensor and compact array localization methods
    PI: Eva-Marie Nosal
    Sponsor: Office of Naval Research, Marine mammals & biological oceanography
    Prior work developed model‐based marine mammal tracking methods which incorporate sound propagation models and can consequently account for depth‐dependent sound speed profiles and multiple reflections. Although model‐based methods are generally applicable, prior work targeted large hydrophone ranges (such as AUTEC and PMRF). As a consequence, the details of implementation (which vary depending on array configuration and source characteristics) and applications are limited to these large arrays. Unfortunately such arrays are not widely available; many marine mammal projects make use of smaller arrays. This project will modify, implement and demonstrate application of model‐based localization methods for single hydrophone systems and compact arrays.
  • Signal processing methods for passive acoustic monitoring of marine mammals
    PI: Eva-Marie Nosal; Co-PI: Anders Host-Madsen
    Sponsor: US National Science Foundation
    Advanced signal processing methods were developed and tested for channel estimation and blind source separation in the case of marine mammal vocalization sources propagating through the marine acoustic environment.
  • Improvements to passive acoustic tracking methods for marine mammal monitoring
    PI: Eva-Marie Nosal
    Sponsor: Office of Naval Research, Marine mammals & biological oceanography
    This project investigated and implement several methods to improve the accuracy, efficiency, and applicability of model based passive acoustic methods to track marine mammals. Methods were developed and tested that:
    1) Invert for sound speed profiles, hydrophone position and hydrophone timing offset in addition to animal position.
    2) Use improve maximization schemes in model-based tracking.
    3) Use received sound pressure levels in addition to arrival times for tracking.
    This project also developed methods to simultaneously track multiple animals in cases where it is difficult/impossible to separate and associate calls from individual animals.
  • Acoustic monitoring of wave energy conversion devices
    PI: Eva-Marie Nosal
    Sponsor: US Department of Energy through the Hawaii National Marine Renewable Energy Center (HINMREC)
    The goal of this project was to deploy and maintain an array of hydrophones at the HINMREC wave energy conversion device test site and analyze data to determine the acoustic signature of wave energy conversion devices installed under different sea sates, ocean conditions and operational loads.
  • Harbor acoustic monitoring
    PI: Eva-Marie Nosal
    Sponsor: US Department of Homeland Security through the Center for Island, Maritime, and Extreme Environment Security (CIMES)
    This project:
    1) Advanced capabilities in underwater maritime surveillance through development, testing, and deployment passive acoustic monitoring systems
    2) Developed real-time techniques to 3D monitor harbor traffic, including surface vessels and underwater objects
    3) Characterized acoustic source and reflectance signatures of ships, divers, swimmers, AUVs, ROVs, and other underwater craft
  • Acoustic seagliders in the Philippine Sea
    PI: Bruce Howe; Co-PIs: Glenn Carter, Eva-Marie Nosal, Lora VanUffelen
    Sponsor: Office of Naval Research (ocean acoustics program)
    The project developed new techniques and technologies to improve the ability to measure and characterize the highly dynamic ocean environment and understand the effect of ocean variability due to mesoscale eddies, tides, currents, and internal waves on the acoustics. An accurate characterization of the ocean improves the predictability of acoustic propagation through it and, in turn, enables inversions for oceanic properties from acoustic receptions. The long-term goal was to use multiple platforms and techniques, old and new, acoustic and oceanographic, moored and mobile, to sense the ocean environment, and to understand the effect of oceanic fluctuations on deep-water acoustic propagation.
  • Passive Acoustic Methods for Tracking Marine Mammals Using Widely-Spaced Bottom-Mounted Hydrophones
    PI: Eva-Marie Nosal
    Sponsor: Office of Naval Research, Marine mammals & biological oceanography
    This project developed and implemented methods to deal with two specific challenges associated with tracking marine mammals using widely-spaced bottom-mounted hydrophone arrays: (1) Multiple animals whose calls cannot be easily separated or associated, and (2) Insufficient receiver coverage, in which case standard time-of-arrival tracking methods fail.
  • Passive acoustic tracking of minke whales
    PI: Eva-Marie Nosal
    Sponsor: Office of Naval Research, Marine mammals & biological oceanography
    This project:
    1) Improved and compared passive acoustic methods for tracking minke whales.
    2) Used these methods to study minke whale behavior and bioacoustics.
    3) Supported test cases that involved the integration of acoustic and visual survey methods.

Teaching

  • Courses Taught
    ORE 603 Oceanography for Engineers
    ORE 608 Probability and Statistics for Ocean Engineers
    ORE 766 Numerical Methods in Ocean Engineering
    ORE 792 Seminar in Ocean and Resources Engineering
  • Graduate students – principal advisor (advising, financial support for some)
  • In progress, Eliza Taylor (MS)
    In progress, Prajna Jandial (MS), co-advisor with Frankie Zhou, HIGP
    In progress, Kei Manabe (PhD)
    2023, Wyatt Burkley (MS), co-advisor with Milton Garces, HIGP, Tagging and mapping of low-flying aircraft via acoustic and radio broadcast data
    2022, Brendan Rideout (PhD), Of Rats and Men: Underwater passive acoustic localization investigations using relative arrival times and blind channel estimation
    2022, Jacob Foster (MS), Direction of arrival estimation of acoustic signals from a 2-element hydrophone array
    2021, Kei Manabe (MS), Detecting spinner dolphin (Stenella Longirostris) clicks in noisy and low sampling rate hydrophone recordings
    2014, Kara Silver (MS), Automatic detection of baleen whales at Station ALOHA
    2014, K Gemba (PhD), Characterization and passive acoustic detection of SCUBA signals
    2010, Blue Eisen (MS), A passive acoustic detector for central pacific minke whale calls
  • Graduate students – secondary advisor (financial support and co-advising)
    2019, Jeremy Young (PhD in EE) primary adviser A Host-Madsen, Timing based source separation
  • Undergraduate interns (financial support, management): Jennifer Sidebottom (Math, UMass, ’12), Willie Diguc (ME ‘10), Rhonda Suka (Geography, ‘10-‘11), Jesse Glasgow (ME, ’14)
  • Graduate interns (financial support, management):  Rhonda Suka (Geography, ‘12-‘13), Stephen Peters (ME ’11-‘12), Dianne Yap (Math ’11), Derek Linsley (’13)
  • Postdoctoral researchers supported and advised: Pina Gruden (JIMAR/CIMAR ’19 – present), Tom Fedenczuk (CIMES ‘09-‘13)
  • PhD committees served: Ian Wynn (Earth Science, current), Augusta Hollers (Marine Biology, current), Kiry Parnell (Marine Biology, current), Megan McElligott (Marine Biology, current), Elizabeth Benyshek (Earth Science, ’23), Troy Heitmann (’23), Yvonne Barkley (Marine Biology, ‘20), Sherry Chou (Oceanography, ‘20), Stephen Scherrer (Oceanography, ‘19), Kelly Pearson (Oceanography, ‘19), Linyan Li (‘18), Yaprak Onat (‘18), Jessica Chen (Zoology, ‘17), Lee Shannon (Zoology, ‘17), Alexis Rudd (Zoology, ‘15), Betsy Seiffert (‘14), Justin Stopa (‘14), Yefei Bai (‘12),  Suvabrata Das (‘11), Yongyan Wu (‘09), Liang Ge (‘09)
  • MS committees served: Guilherme Fernandes da Silva (’24), Sitthichat Sukpholthan (‘19), Ryan Braman (‘18), Vincent Varamo (’18), Dana Brodie (GG, ‘15), William Templeton (’14), Austin Barnes (’13), Matthew Morita (‘12), Lauren Tuthill (‘11), Jacob Tyler (‘11), Shi Shu (‘09), Miguel Quintero (‘09), L Yan (‘08)

Service

  • Reviewer for: Acta Acustica; Animal Biotelemetry; Applied Acoustics; Acoustics Australia; Department of Energy; IEEE Journal of Ocean Engineering; IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing; Journal of the Acoustical Society of America; Marine Georesources & Geotechnology; Marine Technology Society Journal; Methods in Ecology and Evolution; Ocean Engineering Journal; Living Marine Resources Program (US Navy); National Oceanographic Partnership Program; National Science Foundation; North Pacific Research Board; WHOI Seagrant.
  • Conference sessions and committees:
    189th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, joint with the Acoustical Society of Japan, Honolulu, Hawaii (2025) [Technical Chair]
    10th International Workshop on Detection and Localization of Marine Mammals using Passive Acoustics, Rotterdam (2024) [Organizing Committee Member ]
    9th International Workshop on Detection and Localization of Marine Mammals using Passive Acoustics, Hawaii (2022) [co-Chair with Erin Oleson NOAA]
    6th International Workshop on Detection and Localization of Marine Mammals using Passive Acoustics, St. Andrews, Scotland (2013) [Session Chair]
    5th International Workshop on Detection and Localization of Marine Mammals using Passive Acoustics, Oregon (2011) [Organizing Committee Member]
    Oceans 2011 IEEE/MTS (2011) [Tutorials Chair, Technical Committee Member]
    28th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering (OMAE 2009) [Session Organizer]
    IEEE Conference on New Trends in Environmental Monitoring Using Passive Systems (2008) [Session Chair]
  • Expert advice given:  NSF Alaska Region Research Vessel, ARRV (2008)
  • UH committees served (S=Spring, F=Fall): SOEST research council (S25); ORE/HNEI faculty search committee (S25-present); UH Tenure and Promotion review committee (S24); ORE faculty search committee (F23 – S24, Chair); ORE admissions committee (F23 – S24); OCN faculty search (S23 – F23); ORE APT search (S23, Chair); ORE Department Personnel Committee (F22, Chair); UHM College of Engineering Graduate Program Review (F20, ME Chair); SOEST recruitment committee (F20-F21); ORE ABET committee (F20-present); ORE Kilo Nalu steering committee (S20-F21); ORE APT search (S21, Chair); UHM Mechanical Engineering chair search (F19 – S20, Chair); SOEST academic committee (S19-F21); SOEST associate dean search (S19 – F19); CoE dean search (S18-F18; F16-S17); SOEST EXCOM (S16 – F21); ORE faculty search (F15-S18, Chair); ORE faculty search (S12, co-Chair); ORE student admissions (F12-F14 as Chair, S10- S12 as member); SOEST curriculum (F08-S11); ORE PhD qualifying exam (F09-pres.); SOEST open house (F11,F13,F15,F17); SOEST Research Computing (S10); UH Manoa Green Days (F09); ORE ABET accreditation (S09, S15); ORE secretary search (S08); ORE faculty search (F08); SOEST young investigator search (F08); GG curriculum (F07); GG relations and honors (F06-S07).
  • Other committees served: Marine Technology Society, Hawaii Chapter (2024-present as Chair, 2019-present as student chapter faculty sponsor); Acoustical Oceanography Local Organizing Committee, Acoustical Society of America (2011-pres.)
  • Outreach: ORE Website development & maintenance, with Brooks Bays (2018-present). ORE Social media (ORE Facebook) (2018- present). ORE Newsletter (2016-24). DCLDE Hawaii Website development (2019-20). Marine Technology Society, Hawaii student section faculty lead (2019-pres). Underwater acoustics demos at SOEST Open House (biennially, 2005-17).  HEAR lab high school student volunteer program (2010-16). MATE Hawaii Underwater Robot Challenge, Judge (2011- 15).