Henrik Schmidt

Professor of Ocean Engineering



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Professor Schmidt received his MS and PhD degrees in Structural Emgineering from the Technical University of Denmark in 1974 and 78, respectively. From 1978 to 82 he was a post-doctoral fellow at the Technical University and Risoe National Laboratory, carrying out research in non-destructive testing of materials and structures. From 1982 to 87 he was employed by SACLANT Undersea Research Centre in La Spezia, Italy, where he developed the SAFARI wavenumber integration code for seismo-acoustic propagation in the ocean, which together with its successor OASES is still in widespread use as a reference model in the ocean acoustics and geophysics communities. During this period, Prof. Schmidt also contributed to areas such as matched field processing, environmental inversion, ambient noise modeling, and elastic scattering. In 1987 Prof. Schmidt joined the Ocean Engineering faculty at MIT, where he has been Full Professor and Associate Department Head since 1994. He also serves as Associate Director for Research for the MIT Sea Grant College Program. His scientific contributions while at MIT concern the use of seismo-acoustic remote sensing in sea ice mechanics, development of models of elastic scattering in seabeds and ice covers, range-dependent seismo-acoustic modeling, and seismo-acoustic inversion. In recent years he has been pioneering the combined use of small underwater vehicles and acoustic tomography as part of a new paradigm for coastal ocean observation and forecasting, in regard to which he holds two US patents. Currently he is leading an international joint effort on exploring 3-D acoustics for new sonar concepts for networks of underwater vehicles. Prof. Schmidt's work is published in more than 50 publications in the archival litterature and numerous conference presentations. He is a fellow of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) , and Active Member of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG). He was Chair of the Underwater Acoustics Technical Committee, and a member of the Technical Council of the ASA from 1991 to 1994.