ABOUT US

A new acoustics lab at the University of California

The Laboratory for Atmospheric Acoustics (L2A) has been established at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) at the University of California, San Diego. Researchers at the lab are interested in acoustic source phenomenology, the propagation of sound through our turbulent atmosphere and the clear reception of sound waves despite variable, and often high levels of atmospheric noise. Although research at the lab has focused on the use of sub audible sound to monitor the atmosphere for nuclear testing activity, researchers at L2A anticipate further research involving man-made and natural phenomena at frequencies spanning the full acoustic spectrum.

Researchers at L2A are located at the Marine Physical Laboratory on Point Loma in San Diego, California and at the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics at SIO in La Jolla, California. Most field experiments are conducted at the Infrasound Laboratory at Piñon Flat, California.