Abstract :
The following topics were dealt with:- oceanography, commercial aspects, military aspects, marine technology and engineering, acoustic imaging, mine counter measures, synthetic aperture sonar, buried object detection, real time measurement systems, marine debris, marine habitat restoration, modelling and simulation, unmanned underwater vehicles, marine geodesy, ocean energy studies, educational aspects, remote sensing methods, cables and connectors, ropes and tension members, geoacoustic inversion, signal processing, NOAA research projects, fisheries, diving, ocean currents, current measurement, oceanographic ships, sonar, coral reefs, robotics, remotely operated vehicles, ocean monitoring, real time methods, ocean information processing, communication technology, nowcasting, regional oceanography, marine mammals, pollution studies, marine law and policy, naval navigation, transducers and arrays, sonar signal processing, breathing systems for divers, advanced systems, geopositioning, underwater optics, optical imaging, ocean instrumentation, offshore structures, data visualization, economic resources, physical oceanography, telemetry, acoustic detection, acoustic communication, data access and retrieval, electronic chart display, marine geology and geophysics, air-sea interaction, coastal studies, buoys and moorings, seafloor studies, acoustic measurement applications, sediments, student papers