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Paul Golden is the Director of the Geophysics Laboratory at Southern Methodist University and is responsi- ble for planning and implementation of the technical, financial, and scientif- ic efforts of the Laboratory. In this role he oversees daily operations and adherence to schedules and budgets. His scientific interests include seismic data acquisition and analysis, basic
research in infrasound phenomenology and seismo-acoustic studies. He has been involved in high-profile national and international programs over his 20+ year career.
Michael Hedlin received his Ph.D. in
Earth Sciences in 1991 from the
University of California, San Diego. He is
currently a research geophysicist and sen-
ior lecturer at the Scripps Institution of
Oceanography at UCSD. His research
interests include the use of seismic and
acoustic energy for nuclear test-ban veri-
fication, the analysis of acoustic signals
from large-scale atmospheric phenomena
and other sources such as volcanoes. One of his main activi- ties over the past several years has been the design, construc- tion and operation of infrasound monitoring arrays in the United States and the Atlantic Ocean. He founded the Laboratory for Atmospheric Acoustics at UCSD in 2002 and currently serves as the chief editor of InfraMatics (see www.inframatics.org). He has been nominated three times as the outstanding undergraduate lecturer at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. He is a member of the American Geophysical Union and the Acoustical Society of America.
David Norris is a Senior Scientist at BBN
Technologies. He has over 15 years of
experience in propagation modeling,
atmospheric characterizations, and sig-
nal processing. Dr. Norris received a
Ph.D. in Acoustics in the Graduate
Program in Acoustics at Pennsylvania
State University, and M.S. and B.S.
degrees in Electrical Engineering at
Arizona State University. At BBN, he has worked extensively in the creation of the infrasound propagation tool kit InfraMAP, developing and applying propagation and atmos- pheric models to the study of events of interest to the infra- sound monitoring community. Dr. Norris’ research interests include outdoor sound propagation experimentation and modeling, surface-layer atmospheric dynamics, and mathe- matical control theory.
Doug Shields received a Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University in 1956. He brought acoustics research to the University of Mississippi in 1959. At Ole Miss he has served as Professor of Physics and Associate Dean of Liberal Arts. Since 1988 he has worked as a senior research scientist at the National Center for Physical Acoustics. Dr. Shields’s early work was
in the use of acoustics to study vibrational relaxation process- es in gases. More recently he has been involved in building distributed arrays of infrasound sensors to filter wind noise from infrasound signals.
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Curt Szuberla is Assistant Professor of
Physics at the Geophysical Institute and
University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF).
Before joining the Geophysical Institute
as a Ph.D. student in 1992, Szuberla
served as an Airborne and Ranger-quali-
fied infantry officer in the U.S. Army and
is a graduate of the U.S. Military
Academy. Following graduate school, he
taught high school physics and mathe-
matics at North Pole High School for eight years. Since 2000, as a consultant and now a faculty member, he has helped to build an internationally recognized infrasound research pro- gram at UAF, known as the Wilson Infrasound Observatories.
Gene Herrin is the Shuler-Foscue Professor at Southern Methodist University whose research interests encompass infrasound, seismology, and other topics. His primary research interests in seismology include: (1) extension of seismological observa- tions to high frequencies, (2) seismic observations in deep boreholes, (3) processing of high frequency seismic
data, (4) design of advanced seismic instruments and obser- vatories, and (5) research in the seismic verification of nuclear arms-control treaties.