Bob Odom



Title Assistant Director, Principal Physicist, and Research Associate Professor, Earth and Space Sciences
Department Ocean Acoustics (OA)


Email odom@apl.washington.edu
Phone 206-685-3788

Bob Odom's expertise 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.

Dr. Odom holds B.S. M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Washington in physics, nuclear engineering, and geophyics, respectively. He joined the Laboratory in 1990 and now serves as Principal Physicist and Assistant Director for Education and Development. He is also a Research Associate Professor in the UW Department of Earth and Space Sciences.


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