LABORATORY STAFF
Steven G. Schock Principal Investigator
He was born in Warwick, RI, in 1956. He received the B.S and Ph.D. degrees in Ocean Engineering, from the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD, and the University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, in 1979 and 1989, respectively.

He is a Professor of Ocean Engineering at Florida Atlantic University, where he has been conducting research and teaching since 1989. His research interests are bottom interacting acoustics, sediment classification, acoustic imaging and sonar design. He is a member of the Acoustical Society of America, Marine Technology Society, Institue of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and The Society of Exploration Geophysicists.

Recent publications include:

"Buried Object Scanning Sonar," published in IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, VOL 26, No. 4, October 2001

"Buried Object Sonar for AUV's," published at the MTS/IEEE Oceans Conference in September 2003.

"A Method for Estimating the Physical and Acoustic Properties of the Sea Bed Using Chirp Sonar Data," published in IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, VOL 29, No. 4, October 2004

"Remote Estimates of Physical and Acoustic Properties in the South China Sea Using Chirp Sonar Data and the Biot Model," published in IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, VOL 29, No. 4, October 2004

"Synthetic Aperture Processing of Buried Object Scanning Sonar Data," published in Proceedings IEEE Oceans 2005, Sept 19-23, 2005, Washington D.C..
Jim Wulf
Sonar Project Manager
He was born in Miami, FL, in 1940. He received the B.S.E.E. degree from the University of Florida, Gainsville in 1962.

He was with IBM Co. from which he retired as a Senior Technical Staff Member. He joined the Department of Ocean Engineering at Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, in 1997. He works as the Lead Engineer for several sonar development projects
Ed Henderson
Electrical Engineer
Ed was born in Milwaukee, WI in 1962. With over 20 years of experience in the electronics field, he is responsible for design and development of electronics associated with the various research projects within the OE department. His current projects include sonar imaging systems, acoustic modems, and AUV/ASVs. Prior to joining FAU in 1995, he worked for the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Watkins-Johnson Co, and was in the U.S. Air Force.
Csaba Vaczo
Ocean Engineer
cvaczo@oe.fau.edu
Csaba was born in 1972 in Nyiregyhaza, Hungary and finished college at Szecheny Istvan Foiskola, Gyor. He completed his BS in Ocean Engineering here at Florida Atlantic University. He has worked at the Sonar Lab at Seatech and is currently working in the Chirp Lab in Boca Raton since 2003. While at Seatech, he worked with the FLSS (Forward Looking Scanning Sonar). Currently, at the Chirp Lab he is working with our Deep Tow, Boss III, BOSS 160, Acoustic Camera, and Gap Filler
Victoria Ringle
Ocean Engineer
Victoria completed her BS in Ocean Engineering at Florida Atlantic University in 2008 and her MS in Ocean Engineering at Florida Atlantic University in 2009. She worked previously as an undergraduate and graduate research assistant in the chirp lab. Her duties in the lab included materials research, sonar data processing, ANSYS modeling, transducer fabrication and testing. Previous projects inlcude the BOSS 160, Acoustic Camera, and Gap Filler. Currently she is working on the a low frequency sub bottom profiler.
Fred Knapp
Machine Shop Supervisor
fknapp@oe.fau.edu
Fred was born in Holyoke, MA and after a year and half came to South Florida. His favorite class in High School was Metal Shop where he carried out his interest with a Vocational Degree in Machining. For 12 years he was a proprietor of Knapp Machining in Ft.Lauderdale. Since the early 90's, he has worked with many of the professors and projects for the Ocean Engineering Department with machining and design building of the numerous underwater vessels. Many of the vessels inlcude and are not limited to the Ocean Explorer, Morpheus, Ocean Voyager II, and the Chirp lab's Deep Tow and Boss I-III.
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