Publications

Publications are listed in reverse chronological order.

2026

Energy-Optimal Trajectory Planning for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Using Pontryagin’s Maximum Principle

Raymond Young, F. Hunter Akins, and Sophia T. Merrifield. IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, 2026. doi:10.1109/JOE.2026.3692006.

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Multipath correlation at mid-frequency in a convergence zone

F. Hunter Akins and William S. Hodgkiss. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 159(3):2189–2198, 2026. doi:10.1121/10.0042988.

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Transarctic acoustic transmissions during the coordinated Arctic acoustic thermometry experiment in 2019–2020

Matthew A. Dzieciuch, Hanne Sagen, Peter F. Worcester, Espen Storheim, F. Hunter Akins, Stein Sandven, John A. Colosi, John N. Kemp, and Geir Martin Leinebø. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 159(2):1071–1085, 2026. doi:10.1121/10.0042233.

The following article appeared in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America and may be found at https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0042233.

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Modal Group Delay Estimation for Dispersive Modes in Broadband Arctic Tomography

F. Hunter Akins, Peter F. Worcester, Hanne Sagen, and Matthew A. Dzieciuch. IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, 51(1):2–10, 2026. doi:10.1109/JOE.2025.3622464.

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2024

Phase stability of convergence zone propagation at mid-frequency

F. Hunter Akins, William S. Hodgkiss, and W. A. Kuperman. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 156(4):2409–2421, 2024. doi:10.1121/10.0032359.

The following article appeared in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America and may be found at https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0032359.

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2023

Experimental demonstration of low signal-to-noise ratio matched field processing with a geoacoustic model extracted from noise

F. Hunter Akins and W. A. Kuperman. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 153(5):2818–2825, 2023. doi:10.1121/10.0019377.

The following article appeared in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America and may be found at https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0019377.

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2022

A distributed temperature profiling system for vertically and laterally dense acquisition of soil and snow temperature

Baptiste Dafflon, Stijn Wielandt, John Lamb, Patrick McClure, Ian Shirley, Sebastian Uhlemann, Chen Wang, Sylvain Fiolleau, Carlotta Brunetti, F. Hunter Akins, John Fitzpatrick, Samuel Pullman, Robert Busey, Craig Ulrich, John Peterson, and Susan S. Hubbard. The Cryosphere, 16(2):719–736, 2022. doi:10.5194/tc-16-719-2022.

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Modal-MUSIC: A passive mode estimation algorithm for partially spanning arrays

F. Hunter Akins and W. A. Kuperman. JASA Express Letters, 2(7):074802, 2022. doi:10.1121/10.0012041.

The following article appeared in JASA Express Letters and may be found at https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0012041.

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2021

Range-coherent matched field processing for low signal-to-noise ratio localization

F. Hunter Akins and W. A. Kuperman. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 150(1):270–280, 2021. doi:10.1121/10.0005586.

The following article appeared in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America and may be found at https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0005586.

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2020

Multiple constraint matched field processing tolerant to array tilt mismatch

Gihoon Byun, F. Hunter Akins, Kay L. Gemba, H. C. Song, and W. A. Kuperman. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 147(2):1231–1238, 2020. doi:10.1121/10.0000784.

The following article appeared in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America and may be found at https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0000784.

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