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Gabriel Venegas

Assistant Professor
Phone: (603) 862-1419
Office: Kingsbury Hall, Durham, NH 03824
Websites:
Pronouns: He/Him/His

Courses Taught

  • CEE 500: Statics for Civil Engineers
  • EOS/OE 808/795: Acoustics Essentials
  • INCO 790: Advanced Research Experience
  • OE 765: Underwater Acoustics
  • OE 765/865: Underwater Acoustics
  • OE 797: Honors Seminar
  • OE 965: Advanced Underwater Acoustics
  • OE 999: Doctoral Research

Education

  • Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin
  • B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Boston University

Selected Publications

  • Blanford, T. E., Hare, J., Lyons, A. P., Gilman, H. L., & Venegas, G. R. (2026). Estimation of decorrelation rates of scattering from a heterogeneous seafloor.. JASA Express Lett, 6(8). doi:10.1121/10.0044873

  • Niedbala, A. P., Venegas, G. R., Hare, J., & Lyons, A. P. (2025). Exploitation of large calibrated single beam echosounder datasets using a Bayesian geoacoustic inversion. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 158(4_Supplement), A35. doi:10.1121/10.0040041

  • Dias, A. R., Venegas, G. R., Hare, J., & Lyons, A. P. (2025). Toward a mechanistic understanding of coherent seabed decorrelation of a wave-dominated sandy seafloor. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 158(4_Supplement), A279. doi:10.1121/10.0040883

  • Gilman, H. L., Venegas, G. R., Hare, J., & Lyons, A. P. (2025). Impacts of shell hash on the angular dependence of acoustic backscatter from a fine laboratory sand at 200 kHz. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 158(4_Supplement), A264-A265. doi:10.1121/10.0040833

  • Hare, J., Lyons, A. P., & Venegas, G. R. (2025). Measurements of the angular dependence of acoustic seafloor scattering in sandy sites.. J Acoust Soc Am, 158(3), 2225-2237. doi:10.1121/10.0039373

  • Venegas, G. R., McCue, J., Chao, Y. -H., Kim, K., & Cormack, J. M. (2025). Characterization of surficial mudflat sediments using shear wave elastography, core-logging, and microscopy techniquesa).. J Acoust Soc Am, 158(3), 1751-1766. doi:10.1121/10.0039046

  • Lee, K. M., Dorgan, K. M., Venegas, G. R., Chaytor, J. D., Ballard, M. S., McNeese, A. R., & Wilson, P. S. (2025). Investigation of surficial seabed heterogeneity and geoacoustic variability in the New England Mud Patcha).. J Acoust Soc Am, 157(3), 1686-1702. doi:10.1121/10.0036122

  • Ballard, M. S., Garcia, D. D., Lee, K. M., Venegas, G. R., McNeese, A. R., Wilson, P. S., & Chaytor, J. D. (2024). Direct measurements of sediment geoacoustic properties in the New England Mud Patch and shelf breaka).. J Acoust Soc Am, 156(4), 2889-2902. doi:10.1121/10.0032469

  • Lee, K. M., Ballard, M. S., McNeese, A. R., Wilson, P. S., Venegas, G. R., Zeh, M. C., & Rahman, A. F. (2023). Inter-seasonal comparison of acoustic propagation in a Thalassia testudinum seagrass meadow in a shallow sub-tropical lagoon.. JASA Express Lett, 3(1), 010801. doi:10.1121/10.0016752

  • Lee, K. M., Venegas, G. R., Ballard, M. S., Dorgan, K. M., Kiskaddon, E., McNeese, A. R., & Wilson, P. S. (2022). Impacts of infauna, worm tubes, and shell hash on sediment acoustic variability and deviation from the viscous grain shearing model.. J Acoust Soc Am, 152(4), 2456. doi:10.1121/10.0014907

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