James A Theriault

James A. Theriault received the M.Sc. degree in mathematics from Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada, in 1985. He then joined the Defence Research Establishment—Atlantic (DREA), and immediately started working on passive towed array tracking. By the late 1980s, he had made a transition to active sonar; having carried out research on submarine and mine detection using the Canadian Navy's hull mounted sonar, dipping sonar performance evaluations for helicopter procurement, active sonobouy evaluations, acoustic range prediction systems, and most recently, on the Defence Research and Development Canada Atlantic (formerly DREA) Towed Integrated Active-Passive Sonar Technology Demonstration Project. In parallel to the systems research, he is the national science-and-technology point of contact on the potential impact of active sonar on marine mammals.