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 seafloor, characterization of seafloor 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.
