Keith Wilson

Biography

Dr. D. Keith Wilson is a research physical scientist with the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC), in Hanover, New Hampshire. He earned an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Minnesota in 1987, where he was advised by Prof. Robert F. Lambert, and a Ph.D. in Acoustics from the Pennsylvania State University in 1992, where he was advised by Prof. Dennis W. Thomson. Dr. Wilson was a research fellow at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution under the guidance of Prof. George V. Frisk from 1991--1993, and a research faculty member in the Pennsylvania State University Meteorology Department under Prof. John C. Wyngaard from 1993-1995. He joined the U.S. Army Research Laboratory in 1995 and ERDC in 2002. Dr. Wilson has been awarded U.S. Army Research and Development Achievement Awards on four occasions and received the U.S. Army Meritorious Civilian Service Award in 2012. He is a fellow and recipient of the Lindsay Award of the Acoustical Society of America, associate editor of the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, and founding editor of JASA Express Letters. He is a member of the Institute for Noise Control Engineering and the American Meteorological Society.

Education

Ph.D. Acoustics, Penn. State Univ., University Park PA, 1992
M.S. Electrical Eng., Univ. Minnesota, Minneapolis MN, 1987
B.A. Physics, Carleon College, Northfield MN, 1985

Areas of Research / Professional Expertise

Propagation of sound through the atmosphere and ocean, computational methods for sound propagation and fluid dynamics, atmospheric boundary-layer meteorology and turbulence, and statistical and computational methods.

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