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Understanding and constructively using natural sound in the ocean has become of prime importance with the shift of emphasis to protecting the environment and exercising responsible global resource management which has followed the end of the Cold War. Especially now that we realise that marine mammals and other inhabitants of the oceans are threatened by our acoustic pollution of their environment, the use of natural sound as a non-intrusive remote sensing probe has become particularly germane. This was the first meeting on the subject since the fall of Soviet Western barriers, and the proceedings include significant work from premier researchers in the former Soviet Union. It was also the first meeting which specifically addressed the new and exciting idea of using natural sound in applications for monitoring the marine environment. The proceedings include a number of papers on various aspects of this topic. Further new work on the basic physics of sound production and propagation is also included. This volume includes leading-edge work from the foremost researchers in the field, including Bill Carey, Lawrence Crum, Nikolai Dubrovskii, David Farmer, Brian Kerman, Bill Kuperman, Michael Longuet-Higgins, Hank Medwin, Ken Melville, A Prosperetti and many others.Contents: Applications of Natural Ocean Noise: Oceanographic Applications of Natural Sea Surface Sound (W K Melville) Applications of Matched-Phase Noise Reduction to Wind-Wave Generated Noise (B E McDonald & G J Orris) Wind and Precipitation Noise: Laboratory Acoustical Studies of Micro-Scale Sea Surface Activity During Wind and Rain (H Medwin) Ambient Noise Dependence on Local and Regional Wind Speeds (D H Cato et al.) Breaking Waves: New Insights into Breaking Waves and Bubble Entrainment (M S Longuet-Higgins) High Frequency Noise Emitted from Ocean Breaking Waves (P H Dahl) Bubbles: Unresolved Issues in Bubble-Related Ambient Noise (L A Crum) Artificial Bubble Cloud Targets (P A Hwang et al.) Spatial/Temporal Characteristics of Natural Ocean Noise: Source Localization in Noisy Ocean Environments (M D Collins et al.) A Comparison of Deep and Shallow Water Ambient Noise Measurements at Selected Sites Off Western Vancouver Island Using a Multi-Element Vertical Array (P Scrimger et al.) Ice Noise: Acoustical Tracking of Ice Failure Processes (Y-B Xie) Ridge Source Localization Through Matched-Field Processing (P Zakarauskas et al.) and other papersReadership: Applied physicists.

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