Autor: Michael D. Collins

Michael D. Collins was born in Greenville, Pennsylvania. He received the B.S. degree in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Ph.D. degree in applied mathematics from Northwestern University. Since 1985, he has worked for the Naval Research Laboratory. His research interests are ocean acoustics, wave propagation, inverse problems, and the Ivory-billed Woodpecker. Dr. Collins is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the American Geophysical Union, and the Society for Industrial and Applied Matehmatics. William L. Siegmann was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in mathematics and the Ph.D. in applied mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 1968 to 1970, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Mechanics at Johns Hopkins University. Since 1970, he has been in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. His research interests are ocean acoustics and wave propagation methods. Dr. Siegmann is a member of the IEEE Ocean Engineering Society, the Acoustical Society of America, and The Oceanography Society.