Robert I. Odom Jr.
Principal Physicist and
Assoc. Director for Education Programs; Research Assoc. Prof., Geophysics
B.S. Physics 1971, University of Washington
M.S. Nuclear Engineering 1973, University of Washington
Ph.D. Geophysics 1980, University of Washington
Underwater Acoustics, Geophysics, Wave Propagation Modeling, Inverse Problems
Dr. Odom's background is in acoustic and elastic wave propagation. He is principal investigator on projects to model propagation in range-dependent shallow water with elastic bottom effects and to develop improvements to the Navy bottom backscatter/bottom loss models and databases at mid-frequencies. He is also the APL lead for the Ocean Acoustic Observatory Federation, part of the ONR National Ocean Partnership Program. He has published papers on wave propagation and nonlinear inverse problems in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Geophysical Journal International, Bulletin of the Seismological Society, and Geophysics. Dr. Odom joined the Laboratory in 1990.