Aaron M. Thode (M'01) received the B.S. degree in physics and M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, in 1993 and the Ph.D. degree in oceanography from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, in 1999. He was a Postdoctoral Scholar in ocean engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, from 1999 to 2001. He is currently an Associate Research Scientist at the Marine Physical Laboratory at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Dr. Thode received the Office of Naval Research Acoustic Entry-Level Faculty Award, in 2002, and the A. B. Wood Medal from the U.K. Institute of Acoustics/Acoustical Society of America, in 2005. He is a member of the Acoustical Society of America, the American Geophysical Union, and the Society for Marine Mammalogy.