| Applied
Ocean Physics and Engineering
Applied
Ocean Physics and Engineering department (AOPE) is a unique
collection of scientists, engineers, technical support personnel
and students conducting research into ocean processes from the
turbulent surf zone to the abyssal depths. 
DSV
Alvin is hoisted aboard R/V Atlantis following a dive. (Photo
by Craig Dickson, WHOI)
The
AOP&E Department is a major center for research in fluid
mechanics, coastal processes, ocean mixing, acoustics, air-sea
interaction, deep submergence, ocean systems and moorings,
remote sensing, robotics, certain biological processes, image
processing, signal processing and estimation, control theory,
and the dynamics of ocean cables. |
An
AOP&E engineer installs an acoustic modem into an
autonomous vehicle. (Photo by Matt Grund, WHOI)
AOPE
engineers design a wide array of instruments, vehicles
and observing systems that extend the reach of WHOI scientists
and the entire oceanographic community to the furthest
depth and breadth of ocean research and exploration.
Additional departmental research focuses
on the proliferation and scattering of sound in the ocean
in small regions or over an entire ocean basin. The scattering
of sound is affected by marine life, seafloor structure,
and physical oceanographic processes like internal waves
and turbulence. Once acoustic propagation and scattering
effects are understood, acoustics can be used to detect
biological and geological objects, and to probe oceanographic
processes. Above, an engineer installs an acoustic modem
in an autonomous underwater vehicle.
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