October 2000 Newsletter - Naval Postgraduate School

ENGINEERING ACOUSTICS CHAIR ESTABLISHED AT NPS
A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was formalized
between the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) and the Space
and Naval Warfare Systems Center (SSC)-San Diego for the
establishment and support of the Engineering Acoustics Chair
in the Department of Physics at NPS.
Sonar systems development and its applications to Navy
missions are of primary concern to SSC-San Diego. The
Engineering Acoustics (EA) Academic Committee at NPS was
formed to foster research and graduate education for Naval
officers and employees in this field of study. The Engineering
Acoustics Chair will bring additional expertise to NPS in this
crucial area, provide research and curricular leadership, and
enhance coordination of activities in this area between SSC-
San Diego and NPS programs. The general purpose of the
Chair is to advance sonar system science, technology, require-
RELATIONSHIPS
NPS CHAIR PROFESSORSHIPS ARE A VALUED ASSET
NPS currently has over twenty Chair Professorships. A Chair is
established by a Memorandum of Understanding/Agreement with a
sponsoring activity. The agreement outlines the scope of the position
and lists the responsibilities of the partners to the agreement.
Chair Professors work closely with both students and faculty, as well
as serving as a link to the external partner.
• Conrad Chair of Financial Management
• Chair of Strategic Planning
• Naval Space Systems Academic Chair
• Navy TENCAP Chair
• Naval Space Technology Program Chair
• National Security Agency Cryptologic Chair
• NASA Michael J. Smith Space System Chair
• Chair of Tactical Analysis
• Chair of Logistics
• Chair of Arctic Marine Science
• Chair of Mine Warfare
• Chair of Manpower Modeling
• Chair in Applied Systems Analysis
• Admiral Boorda Chair of Management and Analysis
• RADM George F. Wagner Chair in Public Management
• Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Chair
• Measurement and Signature Intelligence (MASINT) Chair
Professor
• Chair of Expeditionary Warfare
• Federal Aviation Agency Aviation Security Chair
• National Reconnaissance Office Chair Professorship
• Engineering Acoustics Chair
ments, and concepts, and to assist SSC-San Diego in
defining sonar system development directions. The MOU
identifies the broad roles and responsibilities of the parties
entering into the agreement.
Mr. Joseph Rice of SSC-San Diego will join NPS in
January 2000 as the first Engineering Acoustics Chair
Professor. Under the technical leadership of Mr. Rice, SSC
San Diego is pioneering the use of acoustic energy and
digital communications for undersea wireless telemetry, a
technology now known as telesonar. In addition to fulfilling
the terms of the agreement, Mr. Rice will continue to
pursue his research in the emerging field of telesonar, with
particular emphasis on signaling, channel adaptation,
directional transducers, distributed networks, and Naval
applications.
CHAIR OF ARCTIC MARINE
SCIENCE BEGINS 24 th YEAR
The Office of Naval Research sponsored
Chair of Arctic Marine Science will
begin its twenty-fourth year at the
Naval Postgraduate School. Professor
Ursula Schauer, a senior scientist at the
Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and
Marine Research at Bremerhaven,
Germany, will be the next chairholder.
Professor Schauer has had a distinguished
career as an Arctic observational
physical oceanographer with emphasis
on water mass modification, shelf basin
exchange and the interchange of the
Nordic Seas with the Arctic Ocean.
During her tenure as the Arctic Chair,
she will collaborate with Professor Bert
Semtner and his colleagues, Research
Assistant Professors Wieslaw Maslowski
and Yuxia Zhang in their efforts to
develop a very high resolution (9km
horizontally) air-sea-ice model. Professor
Schauer will also provide lectures
and seminars to the faculty and students
at NPS and assist with teaching in the
Polar Oceanography class.
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October 2000