Ocean acoustics education in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) Joint Program (JP) is a five-year doctoral program conferring a PhD degree awarded by both institutions. It is organized in five disciplines: Applied Ocean Science and Engineering (AOSE), Biological Oceanography, Chemical Oceanography, Marine Geology and Geophysics, and Physical Oceanography. Because the MIT-WHOI JP is so broad in scope, it is an ideal place for advanced studies in acoustical oceanography. The MIT-WHOI acoustic curriculum falls mostly under the AOSE umbrella. Students can take classes both at WHOI and MIT and can do research on a variety of topics covering acoustic propagation and scattering, undersea navigation/communication, remote sensing and environmental inversion, bioacoustics, robotics, and high latitude acoustics. JP students have access to courses, programs and resources at one of the top oceanographic research institutions in the world (WHOI) and one of the top research universities in the world (MIT). By benefiting from the best of these two institutions theoretical and sea going strengths, JP students can become part of the next generation of ocean science leaders, allowing them to pursue careers all over the world in diverse areas including universities, research institutions, government, private industry or NGOs.