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BUCKINGHAM, MICHAEL

Professor

Degrees:

• B.S., University of Reading, England
• Ph.D., University of Reading, England

Research Interests:

• Shallow-water ocean acoustic propagation
• Ambient noise inversions for sediment geoacoustic properties
• 3-D acoustic propagation in range-dependent channels
• Acoustic imaging using ambient noise (acoustic daylight)
• Volcano acoustics
• Bubble dynamics
• Bubble acoustics (collective oscillations)
• Sediment acoustics
• Waves in porous media
• Causality and the transient solutions of partial differential wave equations
• High Doppler airborne sources for underwater acoustics research
• Statistical properties of sand grain shapes
• Packing statistics of irregular particles
• Ambient noise profiling in the deep (11 km) ocean
• Underwater detection and modeling of sonic booms
• Acoustic pulse propagation in dispersive media
• Very-high-energy neutrino detection in the ocean

Courses Recently Taught:

• SIO 204: Acoustics
• SIO 221A: Anlys/Physicl Oceanograph Data
• SIO204: Advanced Acoustics
• SIO204: Acoustics
• SIO204B: Advanced Acoustics II

Honors and Awards:

• Finalist, Discover Magazine Awards for Technological Innovation, Sight Category, for pioneering acoustic daylight imaging, 1998
• Science Writing Award for Professionals in Acoustics, Acoustical Society of America, 1997
• Alan Berman Publication Award, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C., 1988
• Commendation for Distinguished Contributions to Ocean Acoustics, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C., 1984
• A. B. Wood Medal, Institute of Acoustics, UK, 1982
• Clerk Maxwell Premium, IERE, UK, 1972

Mentoring:

• Walker, Shane (Post Doc; 2007-)
• Barclay, David (Graduate; 2005-)
• Giddens, Eric (Post Doc; 2005-2006)
• Guerra, Melania (Graduate; 2003-)
• Lynch, Stephen (Graduate; 2001-2008)
• Berger, Thomas (Post Doc; 1999-2001)
• Giddens, Eric (Graduate; 1998-2005)
• Carbone, Nicholas (Graduate; 1991-1996)
• Epifanio, Chad (Graduate; 1991-1997)
• Berkhout, Broderick (Graduate; 1990-1992)
• Burch, Holly (Graduate; 1990-1998)
• Garcés, Milton (Graduate; 1989-1995)
• Berger, Thomas (Graduate; -1999)
• Hahn, Thomas (Graduate; -1999)

Buckingham, M.J. and C. L. Epifanio. Bubbles and breaking waves: imaging in space, time and frequency. Proceedings of Sea Surface Sound ‘97, T. Leighton, ed., pp. 39-44 (Southampton, 1997). CHAPTER IN BOOK

Buckingham, M.J. Sound speed and void fraction profiles in the sea surface bubble layer. Applied Acoustics. Special issue on Ambient Noise. C. Harrison, ed., 51(No.3):225-250. (1997). [Elsevier Science Ltd.] RESEARCH ARTICLE

Buckingham, M.J. and N.M. Carbone. Source depth and the spatial coherence of ambient noise in the ocean. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. (102)5:2637-2666 (1997). [American Institute of Physics] RESEARCH ARTICLE

Buckingham, M.J. Theory of acoustic attenuation, dispersion and pulse propagation in unconsolidated granular materials including marine sediments. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. (102)5:2579-2596 (1997). [American Institute of Physics] RESEARCH ARTICLE

Carbone, N.M., G.B. Deane and M.J. Buckingham. Estimating the compressional and shear wave speeds of a shallow-water seabed from the vertical coherence of ambient noise in the water column. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. (1997).(103)2:801-813. [American Institute of Physics] RESEARCH ARTICLE

Deane, G.B., M.J. Buckingham and C.T. Tindle. Vertical coherence of ambient noise in shallow water overlying a fluid seabed. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. (102)6: 3413-3424, 1997. [American Institute of Physics] RESEARCH ARTICLE

Buckingham, M.J. Theory of compressional and shear waves in fluid-like marine sediments. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. (103)1:288-299 (1998). [American Institute of Physics] RESEARCH ARTICLE

Buckingham, Michael J. Theory of compressional, transverse and interface waves in porous media. Euromech Colloquium 376: Waves in Two-Phase Flows. Can F. Delale, and David G. Crighton, eds. pps. 4-5 (1998). [INVITED PAPER] CHAPTER IN BOOK [Reviewed]

Buckingham, Michael J. Seismic wave propagation in rocks and marine sediments: a new theoretical approach. Proceedings of the 4th European Conference on Underwater Acoustics, Alippi, Adriano and Giovanni B. Cannelli, eds. Italian National Research Council.Vol 1, pps. 301-306 (1998). [KEYNOTE LECTURE] CHAPTER IN BOOK [Reviewed]

Buckingham, Michael J. Wave propagation, stress relaxation, and grain-to-grain shearing in saturated, unconsolidated marine sediments. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. (108), 2796-2815 (2000) [Am. Inst. Physics] RESEARCH ARTICLE

Buckingham, Michael J. Acoustics of marine sediments: a new approach. Proceedings of PORSEC'98-Qingdao, He, Ming-Xia and Ge Chen, eds. (PORSEC'98 Secretariat, Qingdao, China), Vol. 1, pps. 689-692 (1998) [INVITED PAPER] CHAPTER IN BOOK [Reviewed]

Buckingham, Michael J. Geoacoustic theory of unconsolidated marine sediments in Shallow-Water Acoustics, (China Ocean Press, Beijing, China), Zhang, Renhe and Jixun Zhou, eds., pp. 133-138, 1999. [INVITED PAPER] CHAPTER IN BOOK [Reviewed]

Buckingham, Michael J. Acoustic daylight imaging in the ocean. Handbook on Computer Vision and Applications, Jähne, Bernd, Horst Haußecker and Peter Geißler,eds. (Academic Press), Volume 1, Sensors and Imaging, 415-424 (1999). CHAPTER IN BOOK

Buckingham, Michael J. On the phase speed and attenuation of an interface wave in an unconsolidated marine sediment. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. (106)4: 1694-1703 (1999). RESEARCH ARTICLE

Buckingham, Michael J. Theory of compressional and transverse wave propagation in consolidated porous media. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. (106)2: 575-581 (1999) RESEARCH ARTICLE

Epifanio, Chad L., John R. Potter, Grant B. Deane, Mark L. Readhead and Michael J. Buckingham. Imaging in the ocean with ambient noise: the ORB experiments. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. (106)6: 3211-3225 (1999) [Am. Inst. of Physics] RESEARCH ARTICLE

Buckingham, Michael J. New theoretical basis for determining the geoacoustic parameters of the seabed. Experimental Acoustic Inversion Methods for Exploration of the Shallow Water Environment, Hermand, Jeanne-Pierre, Michael B. Porter, Sergio M. Jesus and Andrea Caiti, eds., (Kluwer, Dordrecht, Holland) 195-209 (2000). CHAPTER IN BOOK

Buckingham, Michael J. Wave propagation in saturated porous media. Proceedings of the First International Conference on Acoustics, Noise and Vibration, Guran, Arde, ed., ICANOV conference, Montreal, August 2000. 6 ms pgs., (2000) [KEYNOTE] [IN PRESS] (no change, still in press 2003) CHAPTER IN BOOK [Reviewed]

Buckingham, Michael J. and Milton A. Garces. Airborne acoustics of explosive volcanic explosions. J. Comp Acoust. 9(3):1215-1225 (2001). RESEARCH ARTICLE

Richardson, Michael D., Kevin B. Briggs, Dale L. Bibee, Peter A. Jumars, W. B. Sawyer, D. B. Albert, Thomas B. Berger, Michael J. Buckingham, Nicholas P. Chotiros, Peter H. Dahl, N. T. Dewitt, P. Fleischer, R. Flood, Charles F. Greenlaw, D. Van Holliday, M. H. Hulbert, M. P. Hutnak, P. D. Jackson, Jules S. Jaffe, H. P. Johnson, Dawn L. Lavoie, Anthony P. Lyons, C. S. Martens, Duncan E. McGehee, K. D. Moore, Tim Orsi, J. N. Piper, Ricky I. Ray, A. H. Reed, R. F. L. Self, Jill L. Schmidt, S. G. Schock, F. Simonet, Robert D. Stoll, D. J. Tang, D. E. Thistle, Eric I. Thorsos, D. J. Walter and Rob A. Wheatcroft. Overview of SAX99: environmental considerations. IEEE J. of Oceanic Eng. (26)1: 26-53 (2001). RESEARCH ARTICLE

Buckingham, Michael J. Precision correlations between the geoacoustic parameters of an unconsolidated, sandy marine sediment. J. Comp Acoust. 9(1): 101-123 (2001). RESEARCH ARTICLE

Michael J. Buckingham J. Acoustical oceanography in perspective. Acoustical Oceanography, T. G. Leighton, G. J. Heald, H. D. Griffiths, and G. Griffiths, (eds). Bath Univ. Press (23)2, pp. 1-10 (2001). [KEYNOTE ADDRESS] CHAPTER IN BOOK [Reviewed]

Michael J. Buckingham. Wave propagation in dispersive marine sediments: a memorial to David G. Crighton E. C. Shang, ed. 5th International Conference on Theoretical and Computational Acoustics, Beijing, China, May 21-25, pp. 7-14, (2001). [KEYNOTE ADDRESS] CHAPTER IN BOOK [Reviewed]

Michael J. Buckingham and Thomas K. Berger. Low frequency sound from a bubble plume. Proceedings of the 17th Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Rome, Italy Rivista Italiana di Acustica. 2 pps. (2001) [CD ROM] [CLOSING KEYNOTE ADDRESS] CHAPTER IN BOOK [Reviewed]

Lehtinen, Nikolai G., Shaffique Adam, Giorgio Gratta, Thomas K.Berger and Michael J. Buckingham. Sensitivity of an underwater acoustic array to ultra-high energy neutrinos. J. Astroparticle Physics 17: 279-293 (2002). RESEARCH ARTICLE

Buckingham, Michael J. and Michael D. Richardson. On tone-burst measurements of sound speed and attenuation in sandy marine sediments. IEEE J. Oceanic Eng. 27 (3): 429-453 (2002). RESEARCH ARTICLE

Buckingham, Michael J., Eric M. Giddens, Jonathan B. Pompa, Fernando Simonet and Thomas R. Hahn. Sound from a light aircraft for underwater acoustics experiments? Acta Acustica united with Acustica 88 (5): 752-755 (2002) RESEARCH ARTICLE

Buckingham, Michael J., Eric M. Giddens, Fernando Simonet, Thomas R. Hahn. Propeller noise from a light aircraft for low-frequency measurements of the speed of sound in a marine sediment. J. Comp. Acoust. 10 (4): 445-464 (2002). RESEARCH ARTICLE

Buckingham, Michael J. On the sound field from a moving source in a viscous medium. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 114(6):3112-3118 (2003). RESEARCH ARTICLE

Hahn, Thomas R., Thomas K. Berger and Michael J. Buckingham. Acoustic resonances in the bubble plume formed by a plunging water jet. Proc. Royal Society Lond. A 459, 1751-1782 (2003). RESEARCH ARTICLE

Buckingham, Michael J. A three-parameter dispersion relationship for Biot’s fast compressional wave in a marine sediment. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 116(2):769-776 (2004). RESEARCH ARTICLE

Buckingham, Michael J. Compressional and shear wave properties of marine sediments: comparisons between theory and data. J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 117(1): 137-152 (2005). RESEARCH ARTICLE

Thorne, Peter D. and Michael J. Buckingham. Measurements of the form function and total scattering cross section for suspensions of sands. J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 116(5): 2876-2890 (2004) RESEARCH ARTICLE

Buckingham, Michael J.. Causality, Stokes’ wave equation, and acoustic pulse propagation on a viscous fluid. Physical Review E 72: 026610 (1-9) (2005). RESEARCH ARTICLE

Buckingham, Michael J. and Eric M. Giddens. On the acoustic field in a Pekeris waveguide with attenuation in the bottom half space. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 119 (1): 123-142 (2006). RESEARCH ARTICLE

Buckingham, Michael J. and Eric M. Giddens. Theory of sound propagation from a moving source in a three-layer Pekeris waveguide. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 120 (4): 1825-1841 (2006). RESEARCH ARTICLE

Buckingham, Michael J. On pore-fluid viscosity and the wave properties of saturated granular materials including marine sediments. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 122 (3): 1486-1501 (2007). RESEARCH ARTICLE

Buckingham, Michael J. On the transient solutions of three acoustic wave equations: van Wijngaarden’s equation, Stokes’ equation and the time-dependent diffusion equation. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 124(4): 1909-1920, (2008). RESEARCH ARTICLE

Barclay, David R. and Buckingham, Michael J. On the shapes of natural sand grains. J. Geophys. Res. in press, (2008). RESEARCH ARTICLE