Rodney is Director of Seiche Ltd., a consultancy which specialises in R&D and postgraduate education in Underwater Acoustics. He held the Chair of System Engineering at the University of East Anglia from 1985 to 1991 when he was appointed to the Chair of Electronics at The University of Birmingham.

His interests include acoustic transducer design, sub-sea communications, airgun signature analysis, high-energy acoustics, the impact of seismics on cetaceans and the possible role of acoustics in the long range migrations of cetaceans, pinnipeds and marine turtles.

Rodney has a keen interest in the practical, "get-your-hands-dirty" turn-it, mill-it, weld-it, which goes hand in glove with the practice of underwater acoustics in the field. He has manufactured acoustic arrays for monitoring marine mammals and has built long-stay deep-ocean underwater sound recorders for monitoring the noise environment in the South Georgia long-lining fishery. This last work was conducted with past course delegates.

Robert works at Schlumberger’s  Research laboratory in Cambridge.  Schlumberger is a large oilfield service company and, under the business name WesternGeco, is one of the leading seismic survey companies in the world.    Robert is in the Geophysics Department which deals mainly in seismic imaging at sea and on land. 
 
Currently he is working on marine seismic sources and acquisition systems.  In the earlier part of his career in geophysics Robert worked in Oslo on seismic data processing and imaging.  The recent areas of his research have been on the effect of the rough sea surface on the seismic image , the design of novel marine seismic sources and the understanding of signal and noise in the seismic image.
 
Robert  serves on the technical steering committees of several research projects funded by the JIP (a consortium funded energy companies that sponsors  independent research on the impact of  sound on marine life) and he has a strong personal interest in the effect of marine seismic sources on the environment and the ways in which it can be mitigated.

Paul is Sea Fisheries Group Leader, Marine Scotland - Sciences. He has been involved in research in fisheries acoustics for 15 years.

During this time he has surveyed places as diverse as the Antarctic and Lake Victoria, as well as most of the waters of the North East Atlantic.

He has been a key developer of acoustic techniques deployed in Antarctic waters using the AUTOSUB vechicle (NOCS, Southampton), for obtaining biomass estimations under ice.

Stephen is the principal scientist at NPL responsible for the UK's primary measurement capability in the field of underwater acoustics. He has over 22 years experience in underwater acoustic metrology as an acoustical scientist at NPL. Stephen serves on the Underwater Acoustics Group of the Insititute of Acoustics, and is the Convenor of two international standards committees, within IEC and EURAMET.

Stephen's interests include optical techniques applied to acoustic measurement (using laser light to measure sound), and the measurement and assessment of underwater radiated noise.

Victor is a Professor of Acoustics in the Institute of Sound and Vibration Research at the University of Southampton. He has over thirty years of research experience in both underwater acoustics and medical ultrasound.

His interests include numerical modelling of transducers and fields; parametric arrays and their applications in the laboratory and at sea; techniques of measuring the acoustic properties of materials; acoustic scattering from structures; nonlinear propagation in tissues and its use to improve imaging in medical ultrasonics.

Victor has a keen interest in applied acoustics and the potential for cross fertilisation of ideas between different fields of acoustics. He has a wide experience of conveying acoustic concepts to students from a wide range of backgrounds.

Dick has a lifelong interest in physics, especially that with a practical outcome. He helped develop Sonardyne's USBL direction finding sonar, a ship mounted acoustic array which allows subsea vehicles to be tracked, or a fixed seabed beacon to be used as a reference for dynamic positioning. The use, development and optimisation of transducers has been a theme running through his work.

Earlier activities included wind tunnel simulation of roof tile damage, linking high speed gusts to low frequency acoustic response. The provision of air borne noise surveys to the Redland Group provided a background for the current interest in underwater noise issues. He has measured underwater noise in many worldwide applications and would like to see a more widespread use of simple survey techniques. He is Secretary of the Underwater Acosutics Group of the Institute of Acoustics.   
 
Dick and his wife Val are now partners in a consultancy which provides services for others including the National Physical Laboratory, where both the investigation of theory and explanation of practice are studied.

Pete is a Senior Research Scientist at NPL developing optical methods for hydrophone calibration and sonar characterisation. He has over 8 years experience as a physicist working in acoustical metrology, including areas of non-destructive testing (acoustic emission), underwater acoustic measurement and optical measurement of acoustic fields at NPL.

His current area of activity include acoustic emission for structural health and condition monitoring, interferometry for acoustic measurement in airborne acoustics, underwater acoustics and ultrasonics, and the measurement of man-made noise in water and its impact on marine life.

He has a keen interest in the use of lasers for underwater acoustic measurement, particularly in using the interaction between the laser beam and the refractive index change due to the passage of an acoustic wave (in air or water) to image acoustic fields using tomographic reconstruction.