{"id":94,"date":"2013-11-29T22:41:34","date_gmt":"2013-11-29T22:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ndmercha.expressions.syr.edu\/?page_id=94"},"modified":"2014-12-18T04:49:04","modified_gmt":"2014-12-18T09:49:04","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ndmercha.expressions.syr.edu\/?page_id=94","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n  (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){\n  (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),\n  m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)\n  })(window,document,'script','\/\/www.google-analytics.com\/analytics.js','ga');\n\n  ga('create', 'UA-47374002-1', 'auto');\n  ga('send', 'pageview');\n\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #339966;\">Background<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><strong>PhD<\/strong>\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/ndmercha.expressions.syr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Merchant_Thesis_Corrected_20Feb2014.pdf\">Measuring underwater noise exposure from shipping<\/a><\/em><br \/>\nUniversity of Bath. Supervisor: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bath.ac.uk\/physics\/contacts\/academics\/philippe_blondel\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Philippe Blondel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MSc<\/strong>\u00a0<em>Acoustics and Music Technology<\/em><br \/>\nUniversity of Edinburgh. Dissertation supervisor: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acoustics.ed.ac.uk\/group-members\/professor-murray-campbell\/\" target=\"_blank\">Prof. Murray Campbell<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>BSc (Hons)<em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><em>Physics and Astronomy<\/em><br \/>\nUniversity of Durham, St John&#8217;s College.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #339966;\">Affiliations<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Member of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/acousticalsociety.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Acoustical Society of America<\/a>.<br \/>\nMember of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishecologicalsociety.org\/\">British Ecological Society<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #339966;\">Awards<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><strong>2012 ECUA Student Prize<\/strong><br \/>\nAward for best student presentation at the 2012 European Conference\u00a0on Underwater Acoustics (1 of 4 recipients).<\/p>\n<p><strong>2011 David Bullett Prize<\/strong><br \/>\nAward for best PhD transfer report in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bath.ac.uk\/physics\/\">Department of Physics<\/a>, University of Bath.<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){\n  (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),\n  m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)\n  })(window,document,'script','\/\/www.google-analytics.com\/analytics.js','ga');\n\n  ga('create', 'UA-47374002-1', 'syr.edu');\n  ga('send', 'pageview');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Background PhD\u00a0Measuring underwater noise exposure from shipping University of Bath. Supervisor: Dr. Philippe Blondel. MSc\u00a0Acoustics and Music Technology University of Edinburgh. Dissertation supervisor: Prof. Murray Campbell. BSc (Hons)\u00a0Physics and Astronomy University of Durham, St John&#8217;s College. &nbsp; Affiliations Member of the\u00a0Acoustical Society of America. Member of the British Ecological Society. &nbsp; Awards 2012 ECUA Student &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ndmercha.expressions.syr.edu\/?page_id=94\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ndmercha.expressions.syr.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/94"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ndmercha.expressions.syr.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ndmercha.expressions.syr.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndmercha.expressions.syr.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndmercha.expressions.syr.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/ndmercha.expressions.syr.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/94\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319,"href":"https:\/\/ndmercha.expressions.syr.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/94\/revisions\/319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ndmercha.expressions.syr.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}