Dr. Williams’s degrees include a Ph. D in Applied Marine Physics, University of Miami (1996); M.S. in Ocean Engineering, University of Miami (1982); and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Cornell University (1978). He has over 30 years experience in the planning and execution of experiments in both littoral and deep ocean environments throughout the world, signal processing, computer modeling and mooring and instrument systems development. His most recent work ranges from the design and development of several types of large surface buoys and their moorings for use in measuring the atmospheric and oceanic parameters under cyclone conditions to the modification of a small coastal catamaran for near shore processes research in the North Carolina New River area. He is also working on a small acoustic noise recorder for use in passive acoustic tomography. He has held a number of positions at the University of Miami since beginning his graduate study there and is presently an Associate Scientist.

Design of ocean and atmospheric instrumentation systems, air-sea fluxes, underwater acoustics, cyclones, remote sensing, mooring systems, computer modeling and signal processing.

 

Williams, N. J., W. M. Drennan, H. C. Graber , R. Ramos, and Ian Brooks, 2012: Air-sea measurements from moored surface buoys in the Pacific during the 2010 typhoon season, 2012 AGU Ocean Sciences Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT Feb 2012

Collins, C.O., H. C. Graber, W. M. Drennan, N. J. Williams, R. J. Ramos, B. Lund, and A. Herrera, 2012: In situ measurements of surface gravity waves in typhoon conditions , 2012 AGU Ocean Sciences Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT Feb 2012

Potter, H., W. M. Drennan, M. M. Gierach, H. C. Graber, R. J. Ramos, and N. J. Williams, Upper ocean response to typhoons during the 2010 season, 2012 AGU Ocean Sciences Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT Feb 2012

Williams, N. J., H. C. Graber, M. Caruso, R. Ramos, and B. Lund, 2008: Comparison of in situ surface measurements of nonlinear internal waves with those obtained from remote sensing, 2008 AGU Ocean Sciences Meeting, Orlando, FL March 2008

Knobles, D.P., S.M. Joshi, R. D. Gaul, H. C. Graber, and N. J. Williams, 2008: Analysis of wind-driven ambient noise in a shallow water environment with a sandy seabed, JASA Express Letters, Acoustical Society of America, (accepted for publication)

Dahl, P.H., J.W. Choi, N. J. Williams, and H. C. Graber, On field measurements and modeling of attenuation from near-surface bubbles for frequencies 1-20 kHz, JASA Express Letters, Acoustical Society of America, (accepted for publication)

Drennan, W. and N. Williams, 2008: A report on EASI (Extreme Air-Sea Interaction) buoy's encounter with Noel, AMS 28th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, Orlando, FL April 2006

Ramos, R. J. , H. C. Graber, B. Lund, M. Caruso, and N. Williams, Determination of internal wave properties from X-band radar observations, 2008 AGU Ocean Sciences Meeting, Orlando, FL

Williams, N. J. , H. C. Graber, and R. Ramos, 2006: Near-Surface Measurements of Internal Waves During the Non-linear Internal Wave Initiative Experiment (NLIWI), Summer 2006, Eos Trans. AGU, 87(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract OS23C-04, Dec 2006

Drennan, W and N. Williams, 2006: An Air-Sea Interaction Flux Buoy for High Winds, EOS Trans. AGU, 87(36), Ocean Sci. Meet. suppl., Abstract OS54A-05, Feb 2006

Bintz, J et al. (including N. Williams) , 2006: SCOOP: Enabling and Interoperable Network of Ocean Observations, The Coastal Society 20th Biennial Conference, May 2006.

DeFerrari, H. A. , N. J. Williams, and H. B.  Nguyen, 2003: Focused arrivals in shallow water propagation in the Straits of Florida, Acoustic Research Letters Online (ARLO) , Acoustical Society of America, Volume 4, Issue 3, July 2003. 

DeFerrari, H. A., N. J. Williams, and H. B. Nguyen, 2003: Spatial and temporal coherence of broadband acoustic transmissions in the Straits of Florida, J. Acoust. Soc. Am, 113(4), Pt.2, p. 2332 

Thompson, Charles, Bruce Gomes, Neil Williams, and Kameron Corregan, 2002: Comparison of Surface Radar Traffic Density Contact Records with Receive Levels from Separate Acoustic Data Sets, Proceedings of the Thirty-Sixth Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers,  Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. 

DeFerrari, H. A., N. J. Williams, and H. B. Nguyen, 2002: Variability, Coherence, and Predictability of Shallow Water Acoustic Propagation in the Straits of Florida,  in Pace, N. G.  and F. B. Jensen,  Impact of Littoral Environmental Variability on Acoustic Predictions and Sonar Performance, Kluwer Academic Publishers, The Netherlands,  pp245-254 

DeFerrari, Harry, Neil Williams, and Hien Nguyen, 2002: Acoustic propagation in the coastal environment of the Florida Straits---recent experimental results, J. Acoust. Soc. Am, 112, p. 2308 (INVITED PAPER) 

Nguyen, H.B., H.A. DeFerrari, N.J. Williams, and W.A. Venezia, 2002: Ocean Acoustic Sensor Installation at SFOMC, IEEE J. Oceanic Engineering, 27(2), p.235-244

DeFerrari, H.A., N.J. Williams, and H.B. Nguyen, 2001: Propagation model predictions and comparisons with measurements for broadband acoustic transmission in the Florida Straits, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 110(5), Pt. 2, p. 2634.

Williams N.J., H.A DeFerrari, and H.B. Nguyen, 2001: Results from a shallow water propagation experiment on the Malta Plateau, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 110(5), Pt. 2, p. 2635. 

DeFerrari, H.A., N.J. Williams, and H.B. Nguyen, 2001: Intensity fluctuations of refracted bottom reflected arrivals in shallow-water propagation, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 109(5), Pt. 2, p. 2420. 

DeFerrari, H.A., N.J. Williams, and H.B. Nguyen, 2000: Focused arrivals in shallow water propagation, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 108 (5), Pt. 2, p. 2577. 

DeFerrari, H.A., N.J. Williams, H.B. Nguyen, and W.A. Venezia, 2000: Shallow water acoustic propagation experiments in the Florida Straits-Preliminary results, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 107(5), Pt. 2, p. 2831.  

DeFerrari, H.A., N.J. Williams, H.B. Nguyen, G.A. Zets, and T.H. Ensign, 2000:  An Expendable Probe Source for the Clandestine Observation of the Acoustic Properties of Shallow Water Propagation Channel, EAST Peer Review Conference, Austin, Texas, February 2000. 

Williams, N. J., H.B. Nguyen, and H.A. DeFerrari, 2000: Shallow Water Coherence Measurements Off the South Florida Coast, EAST Peer Review Conference, Austin, Texas, February 2000. 

Williams, N. J., H. A. DeFerrari, H. B. Nguyen, and W. A. Venezia, 'Ocean Acoustic Sensor Installation at the South Florida Ocean Measurement Center, Dania Beach, FL',  EOS, Transactions, Amer. Geophys. Union, 1999 Fall Meeting, Vol. 80, No. 46, Nov. 16, 1999/supplement, p F543.

Simmen, J.A., S.M. Flatte, H.A. DeFerrari, H.B. Nguyen, and N.J. Williams, 1999: Near-caustic behavior in a 270-km acoustical experiment, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 105, (6), 3231-3244. 

Nguyen, H.B., H.A. DeFerrari, and N.J. Williams, 1996:  A General Purpose and Autonomous Transmitter and Receiver System for Underwater Acoustic Experiment at Sea, IEEE J. Oceanic Eng., 21 (1), 85-93.

Dr. Neil J. Williams
RSMAS/AMP
University of Miami
4600 Rickenbacker Causeway
Miami, FL 33149

Telephone: 305/421-4656
Fax: 305/421-4701
nwilliams@rsmas.miami.edu

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