Dr. Anthony Lyons is currently a Research Professor in the Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping and is the Associate Director for Research in the Center for Acoustics Research and Education. Anthony P. Lyons received the B.S. degree in Physics from Henderson State University, Arkadelphia, AR, in 1988. After receiving his PhD in Oceanography from Texas A&M University in 1995, Dr. Lyons worked in the Fine-Scale Acoustics and Oceanography Group at the SACLANT Undersea Research Centre, La Spezia, Italy, from 1995 to 2000 where he was involved in a variety of projects in the area of environmental acoustics. Previous to taking his position at the University of New Hampshire, Dr. Lyons was a Senior Scientist at the Applied Research Laboratory at Penn State and a Professor of Acoustics in Penn State’s Graduate Program in Acoustics. While on sabbatical, he worked in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, in 2008. Dr. Lyons also worked for the US Office of Naval Research Global in 2008 and 2014. His research projects have included studies of shallow-water acoustic propagation, acoustic interaction with the sea?oor, characterization of sea?oor sediments and high-resolution oceanographic measurements. Dr. Lyons was awarded, with the recommendation of the Acoustical Society of America, the Institute of Acoustics' (U.K.) A.B. Wood Medal in 2003. He is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America (2007) and a member of the IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society.
Research Interests
- Acoustic Reverberation
- Acoustic Target Detection
- Acoustic Waves
- Acoustics
- Acoustics Technology
- Arctic Ocean
- Hydroacoustics
- Ice-Acoustic Interactions
- Marine and Ocean Sciences
- Ocean Acoustics
- Oceanography
- Physical Oceanography
Selected Publications
Miksis-Olds, J., Ainslie, M., Blair, H., Butkiewicz, T., Hazen, E., Heaney, K., . . . Warren, J. (2025). Overview of the Atlantic Deepwater Ecosystem Observatory Network. Oceanography. doi:10.5670/oceanog.2025.301
Steele, S., & Lyons, A. P. (2024). An experimental test of endfire synthetic aperture sonar for sediment characterisation. IET Radar, Sonar & Navigation, 18(11), 2057-2065. doi:10.1049/rsn2.12615
Hare, J., Lyons, A. P., Catoire, M., & Venegas, G. R. (2024). Measurements of temporal variability of acoustic scattering from the seafloor in shallow-water sandy sites.. J Acoust Soc Am, 156(4), 2727-2742. doi:10.1121/10.0030464
Lyons, A. P., Olson, D. R., & Hansen, R. E. (2022). Modeling the effect of random roughness on synthetic aperture sonar image statistics.. J Acoust Soc Am, 152(3), 1363. doi:10.1121/10.0013837
Steele, S. -M., & Lyons, A. P. (2022). Development and Experimental Validation of Endfire Synthetic Aperture Sonar for Sediment Acoustics Studies. IEEE JOURNAL OF OCEANIC ENGINEERING, 47(2), 472-482. doi:10.1109/JOE.2021.3107590
Abraham, D. A., & Lyons, A. P. (2002). Novel physical interpretations of K-distributed reverberation. IEEE JOURNAL OF OCEANIC ENGINEERING, 27(4), 800-813. doi:10.1109/JOE.2002.804324
Richardson, M. D., Briggs, K. B., Bibee, L. D., Jumars, P. A., Sawyer, W. B., Albert, D. B., . . . Wheatcroft, R. A. (2001). Overview of SAX99: Environmental considerations. IEEE JOURNAL OF OCEANIC ENGINEERING, 26(1), 26-53. doi:10.1109/48.917921
Lyons, A. P., & Abraham, D. A. (1999). Statistical characterization of high-frequency shallow-water seafloor backscatter. JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA, 106(3), 1307-1315. doi:10.1121/1.428034
Anderson, A. L., Abegg, F., Hawkins, J. A., Duncan, M. E., & Lyons, A. P. (1998). Bubble populations and acoustic interaction with the gassy floor of Eckernforde Bay. CONTINENTAL SHELF RESEARCH, 18(14-15), 1807-1838. doi:10.1016/S0278-4343(98)00059-4
LYONS, A. P., ANDERSON, A. L., & DWAN, F. S. (1994). ACOUSTIC SCATTERING FROM THE SEA-FLOOR - MODELING AND DATA COMPARISON. JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA, 95(5), 2441-2451. doi:10.1121/1.409854
