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Dr G Latha

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National Institute of Ocean Technology, Chennai

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Dr G Latha is Head of Ocean Acoustics and Scientist G at NIOT. Her area of expertise includes ocean acoustics and modelling of ocean processes. The team under her leadership developed an autonomous system for noise measurements and deployed it in the coastal/deep waters of the Indian Seas and in the Arctic. The Arctic System has been operational since 2015. She has been awarded two patents. She has published more than eighty papers in peer-reviewed journals of high repute. She has received the MS Narayanan Memorial Lecture Award from Acoustic Society of India for her contribution to the Ocean Acoustics field. She is a member of the Committee on IQOE under SCOR of the USA. She was deputed to attend the UN meeting on ‘Anthropogenic Underwater Noise’ in New York, USA in June 2018, as the expert from India.