XVI LEONID BREKHOVSKIKH SCHOOL ON OCEAN ACOUSTICS CONFERENCE SUMMARY

This short communication presents the report on the XVI School-seminar "Ocean Acoustics" named after academician L.M. Brekhovskikh. The conference combined with the XXXI session of the Russian Acoustic Society was held at Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, RAS in May 29 - June 1, 2018. The objectives of the conference were as follows: overview the ongoing research by Russian scientists in the field of ocean acoustics, present new results and exchange of opinions among members of the ocean acoustics community, discuss new priorities and future projects. The conference was attended by more than 150 participants from Shirshov Institute of Oceanology (Moscow), Ilyichev Pacific Oceanological Institute (Vladivostok), Prokhorov Institute of General Physics (Moscow), Institute of Applied Physics (Nizhniy Novgorod) and Andreev Acoustics Institute (Moscow), as well as from Sevastopol State University and Lomonosov Moscow State University. 87 reports were published in the volume Ocean Acoustics, Proceedings of the XVI L.M. Brekhovskikh Conference, Edited by V.V. Goncharov, T.I. Tsyplakova. Moscow: GEOS, 2018, 436 p. ISBN 978 5-89118-768-9.