Silvia BLANC

Silvia BLANC

Head of the Acoustic Propagation Department of the Argentinian Navy Research Office (DIIV), Member of the Executive Committee with UNIDEF (Executive Unit of Research and Development for Defense, dependent on the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research/Ministry of Defense), and Member of the Ministry of Defense Regime for Science and Development (RPIDFA), Buenos Aires, Argentina.

ORCID: 0000-0001-8871-2587
ScopusID: 7006670263

Current place of work and positions
Since 2017–present – Head of Acoustic Propagation Department of Argentinian Navy Research Office, Since January 2017 – National position of responsibility in Research and Development: Member of the Ministry of Defense Regime for Science and Development (RPIDFA), Id-A: Technological Advisor (highest position), Since 2016–present – Technology Advisory Board – "Pampa Azul" Initiative of Argentinian Ministry of Science and Technology, Since 2012–present – Member of the Executive Committee with UNIDEF (Executive Unit of Research and Development for Defense, dependent on the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research/Ministry of Defense).

Education
1969–1975 Master Degree in Physics, Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences of University of Buenos Aires. The Subject of MSc thesis was “Experimental study of the sound reverberation phenomenon in shallow waters”;
1975–1978 – Postgraduate courses of Physical Oceanography on Electromagnetic waves propagation, Acoustics applications to Oceanography and Geodesy, Advanced Electrodynamics. Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences, University of Buenos Aires. PhD in Physics unfinished and final dissertation not presented. The Subject of PhD thesis was “Kramer-Kronig integral relationships and causality applied to compressional plane waves in solid media of the Voigt type”. All credits like postgraduate courses and publications was completed.

Other postgraduate courses:
1975 – "Underwater acoustics", by visitor professors from University of Houston and New London Laboratory, USA. Naval Service of Research and Development. Buenos Aires;
1976 – "Acoustic measurements", by visitor professors from University of Houston and New London Lab., USA;
1977 – "Autumn Course of Physics of the Earth", International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy;
1977 – "Workshop on Boundary Value Problems for Ordinary Diff. Equations and Applications", ICTP, Trieste, Italy;
1979 – "SONAR design and prediction", by Dr. R. Urick from Washington Univ., USA, Naval Electronic Office. Bs. As.;
1980 – "Autumn Course on Physics of Flow in the Oceans, Atmosphere and Deserts", ICTP, Trieste, Italy;
1991 – "Course on Oceanography of Semi Enclosed Seas", ICTP, Trieste, Italy;
1994 – "Short Course on Matched Field Processing", Acoustical Society of America, USA;
1999 – "Boundary Element Method", by Dr. C. Brebbia, WESSEX Institute of Technology, Southampton, UK, Bs. As.

Area of interest: Acoustical Oceanography / Ocean Acoustics. Scattering.

Visiting researcher: 2019: IHW2019 at CTBTO, Vienna, Austria. 2006. Applied Physics Laboratory. Univ. Washington. Seattle, WA, USA; 2006. Naval Research Lab., Washington D.C, USA; 2002. Atlantic Oceanographic & Meteorological Laboratory, NOAA, FL, USA; 2002. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, MS, USA; 1978: Institute of Oceanographic Sc., Wormley, UK.

International and national Associations: Member of the Executive Board of IAPSO, 2007-2011, 2011-2015; Acoustical Society of America 1978-1994; AdAA (Argentinian Acoustics Association), since 2016; National Committee of IAPSO 2004-2008, 2008-2012; National Committee of IUGG 2006-2010.

Participation in Editorial Boards: ACTA OCEANOGRAPHICA ARGENTINA, 1978-1985, Associate Editor; J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 2007-2008, Reviewer; J. of Vibration and Acoustic Review, 2017, Reviewer; J. of Applied Phycology, 2019, Reviewer; Pure and Applied Geophysics, 2019, Reviewer.

Direction of Projects of Research and Development: In charge of the Direction of 5 projects of Research and Development of the Ministry of Defense and the Co-Direction of 2 others (since 2008); 6 projects of the Argentinian Navy (since 1980), 2 international projects, including the reception and management of grants to carry them out.

Teaching activities at the University of Buenos Aires, the National Technological Univ., Balseiro Institute - Cuyo Univ., Technological Institute of Buenos Aires.

SCIENTIFIC-TECHNOLOGICAL PRODUCTION
First author and/or Co-author of more than 30 scientific articles published in national and international journals with anonymous reviewer, proceedings and one books chapter. More than 70 scientific communications in national and international congress, symposia, workshops, etc

Selected Publications (2015 – 2020)

  • Lavia E., Gonzalez J.D., Blanc S. Modeling High-Frequency Backscattering from a Mesh of Curved Surfaces Using Kirchhoff Approximation. Journal of Theoretical and Computational Acoustics, 2018, Vol. 27, No. 4: 1850057, 17 p., doi: 10.1142/S2591728518500573.
  • Blanc S., Prario I., Cinquini M., Bos P., Tolivia A. Ultrasonic scattering responses from phytoplankton: Measurements and modelling. Proceedings of IEEE/OES Acoustics in Underwater Geosciences Symposium, RIO Acoustics 2017 Volume 2018-January, 25 April 2018, pp. 1–9, DOI: 10.1109/RIOAcoustics.2017.8349702.
  • Madirolas A., Membiela F.A., Gonzalez J.D., Cabreira A.G., Prario M.D.I.S., Blanc S. Acoustic target strength (TS) of argentine anchovy (Engraulis anchoita): The nighttime scattering layer. Proceedings of IEEE/OES Acoustics in Underwater Geosciences Symposium, RIO Acoustics 2017 Volume 2018-January, 25 April 2018, pp. 1–5, doi: 10.1109/RIOAcoustics.2017.8349753.
  • Madirolas A., Membiela F.A. Gonzalez J.D., Cabreira A.G., Dell'Erba M., Prario I.S., Blanc S. Acoustic target strength (TS) of argentine anchovy (Engraulis anchoita): The nighttime scattering layer. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 2017, Vol. 74, No. 5, pp. 1408–1420, doi: 10.1093/icesjms/fsw185.
  • Gonzalez J.D., Lavia E.F., Blanc S. A computational method to calculate the exact solution for acoustic scattering by fluid spheroids. Acta Acustica united with Acustica, Vol. 102, No. 6, 2016, pp. 1061–1071, doi: 10.3813/AAA.919019.
  • Prario I.S., Gonzalez J.D., Madirolas A., Blanc S. A prolate spheroidal approach for fish target strength estimation: Modeling and measurements. Acta Acustica united with Acustica, 2015, Vol. 101, No. 5, pp. 928–940, doi: 10.3813/AAA.918888.
  • Mariano Cinquini, Patricio Bos, I. Prario, Silvia Blanc. Advances on modelling, simulation and signal processing of ultrasonic scattering responses from phytoplankton cultures. Proceedeings of the 22nd International Congress on Acoustics, Buenos Aires, 5–9 September, Buenos Aires: ICA, Acoustical Society of America, 2016, Vol. 28, No. 1, 10 p., doi: 10.1121/2.0000366.
  • Cinquini M., Bos P., Prario I., and Blanc S. Advances on analysis and signal processing of acoustic scattering responses by phythoplanktonic species. Proceedeings of the 26th IUGG General Assembly, 2015, http://www.czech-in.org/cmdownload/IUGG2015/presentations/IUGG-0311.pdf.
  • Prario I.S., Gonzalez J.D., Madirolas A., Blanc S. A Prolate Spheroidal Approach for Fish Target Strength Estimation: Modeling and Measurements. Acta Acustica united with Acustica, 2015, Vol 101 (5), pp. 928–940, doi: 10.3813/aaa.918888.

Address:
Underwater Sound Division. Argentinian Navy Research Office (DIIV), UNIDEF (National Council of Scientific and Technical Research - Ministry of Defence), Laprida 555. (1638) Vicente Lopez, Buenos Aires, Argentina.