"Unique to this volume are eighteen special reports or reviews of research progress (over the last two to three decades) covering a variety of topics, including computational acoustics, shallow-water acoustics, seafloor and sediment acoustics, boundary scattering and reverberation, water column effects, ocean ambient noise, geoacoustic inversion, marine bioacoustics, arctic acoustics, signal processing, underwater acoustic communication, and underwater sound projectors."--P. 1.