CURRICULUM VITAE
Andrew A. Ganse
Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington
1013 NE 40th Street, Seattle, WA 98015-6698
aganse@apl.washington.edu



EDUCATION:

PhD Candidate, Geophysics. Expected degree completion 2011.
University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
Dissertation: Uncertainty and Resolution in Full-Wave Continuous Geoacoustic Inverse Problems.
Advisor: Robert I. Odom.

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, 1994.
University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
Dual focus major: signal processing and analog-digital conversion circuit design.
Senior projects:
• Genetic algorithm for optimizing radar phase codes (adv: Sahr).
• Design of an analog-digital ISA card for an IBM-PC (adv: Darling).


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Research Engineer, Acoustics Department, 2009-present. (Will be Research Physicist upon PhD completion.)
Applied Physics Laboratory - University of Washington (APL-UW), Seattle, WA.
Modeling, inverse problems, and at-sea experimentation in long-range, low-frequency, ocean-acoustic propagation physics. Management and system refinement of a towed CTD chain instrument in the 2009-2010 Philippine Sea Experiments to study and distinguish internal waves and ocean “spice” (density-compensated soundspeed variations).

Research Engineer, Environmental and Information Systems Dept, 1999-2008.
Applied Physics Laboratory - University of Washington (APL-UW), Seattle, WA.
Selected projects included: Analyzing uncertainty and regularization of a distributed/multisensor (AUV-based) nonlinear ocean geoacoustic inverse problem; Ocean geoacoustic parameter estimation from naval acoustic reverberation data; Evaluation of alpha-stable statistics in modeling of sea-surface radar backscattering.

Computer Programmer, Pacific Fisheries Information Network (PacFIN).
Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission (PSMFC), 1998.
NOAA Western Regional Data Center, Seattle, WA.
Programmed data processing and extraction routines for a large-scale database of commercial fishing in the western U.S., on a UNIX / Oracle Server 7 platform. Provided Oracle and UNIX expertise to two PSMFC agencies.

(Professional experience prior to 1998 available upon request.)


AWARDS/SERVICE/MEMBERSHIPS:

• Recipient, APL-UW Graduate Fellowship, Oct 2003 – Dec 2008.
• 2nd Place, Best Student Paper Award in Underwater Acoustics, Fall 2006 conference of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA).
• Wrote and taught five lectures for graduate-level Geophysical Inverse Theory course ESS523 for Professor Ken Creager, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington, fall 2007.
• Graduate student council representative for underwater acoustics in the Acoustical Society of America (ASA), June 2006 - Jan 2008.
• Attended Mathematical Geophysics and Uncertainty in Earth Models summer program, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, 2004.
• 2003 University of Washington Distinguished Staff Award Nominee.
• Member, Acoustical Society of America (ASA).
• Member, American Geophysical Union (AGU).


CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS:

Ganse, A.A. and J.A. Mercer, "Towed CTD (conductivity, temperature, and depth) chain measurements in the 2010 Philippine Sea experiment.", J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 128, 2836 (2010).
Mercer, J.A., R.K. Andrew, A.A. Ganse, A.W. White, and G. D'Spain, "The University of Washington's Applied Physics Laboratory's participation in the Philippine Sea 2009 and Philippine Sea 2010 experiments: A summary.", J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 128, 2385 (2010).
Odom, R.I. and A.A. Ganse, "The second order resolution operator of a nonlinear ocean acoustics inverse problem.", J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 125, 2501 (2009).
Odom, R.I. and A.A. Ganse, "Resolution matrix perturbation series applied to a nonlinear ocean acoustic inverse problem.", J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 124, 2501 (2008).
Ganse, A.A. and R.I. Odom, "Uncertainty and resolution in continuum inversion of ocean bottom geoacoustic properties.", J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 124, 2501 (2008).
Ganse, A.A. and R.I. Odom (2007), "Resolution Analysis for Experiment Planning of a Nonlinear Seafloor Acoustic Inverse Problem", Eos Trans. AGU, 88(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract S23A-1109.
Ganse, A.A. and R.I. Odom, "Effects of model discretization on the statistics of model parameters in nonlinear inverse problems", J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 121, 3125 (2007).
Ganse, A.A. and R.I. Odom (2006), "Higher Order Statistics for Nonlinear Inverse Problems via Analytical Methods", Eos Trans. AGU, 87(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract S42B-03.
Odom, R.I. and A.A. Ganse (2006), "From Linear to Nonlinear Inversion: Filters, Smoothers, and Resolution", Eos Trans. AGU, 87(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract S42B-02 INVITED.
Ganse, A.A. and R.I. Odom, "Adapting results in filtering theory to inverse theory, to address the statistics of nonlinear geoacoustic inverse problems", J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 120, 3357 (2006).
Odom, R.I. and A.A. Ganse, "The resolution of a nonlinear ocean acoustic inverse problem", J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 120, 3357 (2006).
Pitton, J.W., A.A. Ganse, G.M. Anderson, D.W. Krout, "Distributed environmental inversion for multi-static sonar tracking." Proc. of 9th Intl. Conf. on Information Fusion, July 2006.
Ganse, Andrew A. and Robert I. Odom (2005), "Application of nonlinear filters to geophysical inverse problems", Eos Trans. AGU, 86(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract NG23D-0115.
Ganse, Andrew A. and Robert I. Odom, "Adapting a truly nonlinear filter to the ocean acoustic inverse problem", J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 117, 2463 (2005).
Odom, Robert I. and Andrew A. Ganse, "Assessing uncertainty in ocean acoustic inverse problems", J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 118, 1903 (2005).