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NAME: Rex Kelley Andrew

DEGREES: B.S. Physics with college honors (1981) and M.S.E.E. (1987), University of Washington, Seattle, Washington. Ph.D. Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C (1997).

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

1. Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Signal Processing Society

2. Member of the Acoustical Society of America

3. Member of the Northwest Chapter of the Acoustical Society of America

4. American Mensa (lifetime member)

CAREER HISTORY

2007 - present: Senior Engineer, Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.

1999 - 2007: Engineer, Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.

1997 - 1998: Senior Research (post-doctoral) Fellow, Diagnostic Imaging Sciences Center, Department of Radiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington (working with Brent Stewart on wavelet-based video codecs for diagnostic ultrasound teleradiology.)

1997 - 1999: Algorithm Developer, ioptics, Inc., Bellevue, Washington.

1991 - 1997: Research Assistant, Centre for Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C.

1987 - 1991: Project Engineer, Acoustics Systems Branch, Naval Undersea Warfare Engineering Station, Keyport, WA.

1986 - 1987: Research Assistant, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.

1983 - 1986: Electrical Engineering Stores Manager, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.

PUBLICATIONS

Ph.D. Thesis

Rex K. Andrew, Broadband Acoustical Superresolution Imaging of Breaking Ocean Waves, University of Victoria (November 1997).

Publications

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Rex K. Andrew, Bruce M. Howe, James A. Mercer, "Transverse horizontal spatial coherence of deep arrivals at megameter ranges", J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 117(3), pp 1511-1526 (2005).

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Jessica C. Burtenshaw, Erin M. Oleson, John A. Hildebrand, Mark A. McDonald, Rex K. Andrew, Bruce M. Howe, James A. Mercer, "Acoustic and satellite remote sensing of blue whale seasonality and habitat in the Northeast Pacific", Deep Sea Res. II 51, pp 967 - 985 (2004).

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Rex K. Andrew, Bruce M. Howe and James A. Mercer, "Whale Contribution to Long Time Series of Low-Frequency Oceanic Ambient Sound (U) ", (S) U. S. Navy J. Underwater Acoustics, July 2002.

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Rex K. Andrew, Bruce M. Howe, James A. Mercer, Matthew A. Dzieciuch, "Ocean ambient sound: comparing the 1960s with the 1990s for a receiver off the California coast", Acoustics Res. Letters Online 3(1), pp 65 - 70 (2002).

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Rex K. Andrew, David M. Farmer, R. Lynn Kirlin, "Broadband Parametric Imaging of Breaking Ocean Waves", J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 110(1), pp 150-162 (2001).

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Rex K. Andrew, R. Lynn Kirlin, "A Broadband Maximum Likelihood Imager for a Class of Space-Time Separable Sources", IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing 48(5), pp 1287-1294 (2000).

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Rex K. Andrew, R. Lynn Kirlin, "An Equality Test for Variances of Two Complex Correlated Gaussian Processes", IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing 48(8), pp 2452 - 2454 (2000).

Invited Lectures and Papers

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Rex K. Andrew, Charlotte V. Leigh, Chris D. Jones, "Then and Now"; Observations and Comments on 30 Years of Ocean Ambient Noise off the West Coast , invited lecture for Marine Animals and Human Noise , a national lecture series sponsored by the National Marine Fisheries Service of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Seattle Aquarium, Seattle, WA, September 30, 2004.

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RK Andrew, BM Howe, JA Mercer, "Long-Time Trends in Oceanic Ambient Noise along the Western North American Coast", invited paper, Pacific Rim Underwater Acoustics Conference 2007, October 2007, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Conference Publications and Presentations

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Rex K. Andrew, K. Ho and Charles E. Schmid, "Measurement Accuracy of MVDR Adaptive Beamformers", 119th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, State College, PA, USA, June, 1990 [J. Acoust. Soc. Am., vol. 87 (1), S154(A)].

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Rex K. Andrew, David M. Farmer, R. Lynn Kirlin, "Broadband Acoustical Imaging of Breaking Ocean Waves", 133rd meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, State College, PA, USA, June, 1997 [J. Acoust. Soc. Am., vol. 101(5), pg 3032 (A).]

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RK Andrew, BK Stewart, SG Langer and KC Stegbauer, "Wavelet Compression of Ultrasound Video Streams for Teleradiology", IEEE International Conference on Information Technology Applications in Biomedicine, pp. 15 - 19, Washington D.C., May, 1998.

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BK Stewart, SJ Carter, SG Langer and RK Andrew, "Compressed Ultrasound Video Image Quality Evaluation Using a Likert Scale and Kappa Statistical Analysis", Proc. SPIE 1998; 3335: pp 365 - 377.

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RK Andrew, BK Stewart, SG Langer and KC Stegbauer, "A Novel Wavelet Compression Codec for Pre-Scan Converted Diagnostic Ultrasound Video", Radiology 1998; 209P;RSNA Scientific Exhibit.

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SG Langer, BK Stewart, RK Andrew, SJ Carter, "World Wide Web based Tool for Subjective Human Observer Ranking of Compressed Ultrasound Images", Radiology 1998; 209P; RSNA Scientific Exhibit.

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KC Stegbauer, RK Andrew, SG Langer, SJ Carter and BK Stewart, "The Use of Fourier Domain Subsampling for Real-Time Wavelet Compression of Ultrasound Video", Radiology 1998; 209P; RSNA Scientific Exhibit.

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BK Stewart, SJ Carter, SG Langer and RK Andrew, "Evaluation of Compressed Ultrasound Video Image Quality Using a Likert Scale and Kappa Statistics", Radiology 1998; 209P; RSNA Scientific Exhibit.

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RK Andrew, BK Stewart, SG Langer, KC Stegbauer, "A 3-D Wavelet-based Codec for Lossy Compression of Pre-Scan-Converted Ultrasound Video", SPIE Medical Imaging 1999.

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SG Langer, BK Stewart, RK Andrew, "A Web-based tool for Subjective Observer Ranking of Compressed Medical Images", SPIE Medical Imaging, 1999.

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KC Stegbauer, BK Stewart, SG Langer and RK Andrew, "The Use of Fourier Domain Subsampling for Real-Time Wavelet Compression of Ultrasound Video", SPIE Medical Imaging 1999.

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Rex K. Andrew, "Radiated Autospectra over [160 Hz, 2000 Hz] of Individual Breaking Ocean Waves", Conference Proceedings for Acoustics Week in Canada 1999, Victoria, Canada, October 1999; also Canadian Acoustics 27 (3) pp 28-29, 1999.

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RK Andrew, BM Howe, JA Mercer, "Fundamental Coherence Measures of Long Range Low Frequency SOFAR Channel Signals", 4th Submarine Acoustic Superiority Workshop, NUWC division Newport, Rhode Island, April 1999.

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RK Andrew, BM Howe, JA Mercer, "Six year records of low frequency ambient sound in the North Pacific", 139th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Atlanta, GA, June 2000 [J. Acoust. Soc. Am.107(5), pg 2922 (A).]

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RK Andrew, "NPAL Experimental Data Review -- SOSUS Arrays", Second NPAL Data Analysis Workshop, Leavenworth, WA., October 2000.

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RK Andrew, BM Howe, JA Mercer, "Fourier component fluctuations of wideband ocean tomography signals: empirical temporal statistics", Second NPAL Data Analysis Workshop, Leavenworth, WA., October 2000.

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RK Andrew, BM Howe, JA Mercer, "Angle-of-arrival analysis for site D signals (AST96 and NPAL)", Second NPAL Data Analysis Workshop, Leavenworth, WA., October 2000.

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RK Andrew, BM Howe, JA Mercer, "Six-year record of low-frequency ambient sound in the North Pacific Ocean", Second NPAL Data Analysis Workshop, Leavenworth, WA., October 2000.

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RK Andrew, BM Howe, JA Mercer, "Fourier component fluctuations of wideband ocean tomography signals: empirical temporal statistics from AST96", 140th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Newport Beach, CA, December 2000 [J. Acoust. Soc. Am.108(5), pg 2543 (A).]

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RK Andrew, BM Howe, JA Mercer, "A comparison of ocean ambient sound levels after 30 years for a coastal site off California ", Third NPAL Data Analysis Workshop, Chicago, IL, May 2001.

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RK Andrew, BM Howe, JA Mercer, "A comparison of ocean ambient sound levels after 30 years for a coastal site off California ", 141st Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Chicago, IL, June 2001 [J. Acoust. Soc. Am.109(5) pt 2, pg 2386.]

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JA Hildebrand, MA McDonald, RK Andrew, JA Mercer, BM Howe "Multiyear study of blue whale calls in the north Pacific ", 142nd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, November 2001, [J. Acoust. Soc. Am.110(5) pg 2771.]

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RK Andrew, BM Howe, JA Mercer, "Whale contribution to long time series of low-frequency oceanic ambient sound ", 143rd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Pittsburgh, PA, May 2002, [J. Acoust. Soc. Am.111(5) pg 2371.]

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RK Andrew, CV Leigh, BM Howe, JA Mercer, "Eight-year records of low-frequency ambient sound in the North Pacific ", 144th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Cancun, MX, December, 2002, [J. Acoust. Soc. Am.112(12) pg 2260.]

Technical Papers and Reports

1.

"Parallel Processing : A Very Brief Survey ", management white paper on the state of the art in parallel processing, Research and Engineering Department, Code 70, Naval Undersea Warfare Engineering Station, Keyport, WA., October 1988.

2.

"QSAM Signal Processing Development: Getting from Here to There ", management white paper describing a plan of action for the development of the data processing component of an underwater beamforming acoustic measurement system, Acoustics Division, Code 70C1, Naval Undersea Warfare Engineering Station, Keyport, WA., March 1990.

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"Broadband Acoustical Imaging of Breaking Ocean Waves", invited lecture at the November 1998 meeting of the Northwest Chapter of the Acoustical Society of America