Accession Number:

ADA621147

Title:

Shallow Scattering Layer (SSL): Emergence Behaviors of Coastal Macrofauna

Descriptive Note:

Annual rept.

Corporate Author:

MAINE UNIV AT WALPOLE DARLING MARINE CENTER

Personal Author(s):

• Jumars, Peter A.

Report Date:

2002-09-30

Pagination or Media Count:

5.0

Abstract:

Our long-term goals are to understand - to an extent that allows quantitative prediction - important interactions among acoustic propagation, marine organisms, particles including sediments, solutes and moving fluids. The reason for these goals is to allow us to solve interesting forward and inverse problems in the marine environment.

Descriptors:

• *ACOUSTIC SCATTERING
• *AQUATIC ORGANISMS
• *SHALLOW WATER
• AQUATIC ANIMALS
• COASTAL REGIONS
• ESTUARIES
• MAINE
• NEKTON
• OCEAN BOTTOM
• OCEAN ENVIRONMENTS
• PLANKTON
• SEDIMENTS
• SOLUTES
• SOUND TRANSMISSION

Subject Categories:

• Ecology
• Biological Oceanography
• Acoustics

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE