2nd International Conference on Shallow Water Acoustics 16–20 September 2009 Shanghai, CHINA Overview    |    Registration    |    Travel / Accommodations CONFERENCE TOPICS: •  Acoustic propagation and reverberation models •  Effects of water column variability on acoustics       –  effects due to physical structures (internal waves, fronts, turbulence, …)       –  scattering from biologics (fish, plankton, …)       –  tomography and assimilation •  Seafloor acoustic interaction       –  sediment acoustics       –  geo-acoustic models and inversion •  Sea-surface acoustic interaction       –  effects due to bubbles and rough surfaces •  Ambient noise •  Field characteristics in the (shallow-water) sound waveguide •  Experimental techniques and instrumentation CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS: HONORARY CO-CHAIRS: Jeffrey Simmen Applied Physics Laboratory-UW (USA) simmen@apl.washington.edu Jing Tian Institute of Acoustics, Chinese Academy of Sciences tian@mail.ioa.ac.cn Renhe Zhang National Laboratory of Acoustics, Chinese Academy of Sciences zrh@farad.ioa.ac.cn Jixun Zhou Georgia Institute of Technology (USA) jixun.zhou@me.gatech.edu ORGANIZERS Chinese Academy of Sciences     Institute of Acoustics     National Laboratory of Acoustics Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington Georgia Institute of Technology QUESTIONS? swac09@apl.washington.edu