Robert Odom
  Research Associate Professor
  Office: Henderson Hall 277
     ESS Mailing Address
  Phone: 206-685-3788
  Fax: 206-543-0489 (shared)
  Email: odom @ ess.washington.edu
  Homepage: http://www.apl.washington.edu/people/profile.php?last_name=Odom&first_name=Bob

  Research Groups: Seismology and Tectonics, Marine Geology and Geophysics

Areas of Interest:
Underwater Acoustics, Wave Propagation, Inverse Problems

Education:
Ph.D., Geophysics, 1980, University of Washington
M.S., Nuclear Engineering, 1973, University of Washington
B.S., Physics 1971, University of Washington

Current Research Interests:
Dr. Odom's background is in acoustic and elastic wave propagation. He is principal investigator on projects to model propagation in range-dependent shallow water with elastic bottom effects and to develop improvements to the Navy bottom backscatter/bottom loss models and databases at mid-frequencies. He is also the APL lead for the Ocean Acoustic Observatory Federation, part of the ONR National Ocean Partnership Program. He has published papers on wave propagation and nonlinear inverse problems in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Geophysical Journal International, Bulletin of the Seismological Society, and Geophysics. Dr. Odom joined the Laboratory in 1990.

Selected Publications:

Park, M and R.I. Odom, "Propagators and Feynman Diagrams for Laterally
Heterogeneous Elastic Media," Geophys. J. Int., 160, pp289-301, 2005. (Peer reviewed)

Park, M., R.I. Odom, and D.J. Soukup, "Modal scattering: a key to
understanding oceanic T-waves," Geophys. Res. Lett., 28, pp3401-3404, 2001.(Peer reviewed)

Odom, R.I., M. Park, J.A. Mercer, R.S. Crosson & P. Paik, "Effects
of Transverse Isotropy on Modes and Mode Coupling in Shallow Water,"
J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 100, pp2079-2092, 1996.(Peer reviewed)

Odom, R.I. and J.A. Mercer, "Spectral Diffusion of Elastic Wave
Energy," Geophys. J. Int., 127, pp111-124, 1996.(Peer reviewed)

Park, M. and R.I. Odom, "Effects of Elastic Heterogeneities and
Anisotropy on Mode Coupling and Signals in Shallow Water,"
J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 104, pp747-757, 1998.(Peer reviewed)

Park, M. and R.I. Odom, "The Effect of Stochastic Rough Interfaces on
Coupled-Mode Elastic Waves," Geophys. J. Int., 136, pp123-143, 1999.(Peer reviewed)