Ronald L. Dicus was born in Baltimore, MD, on September 3, 1942. He received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering in 1965 from Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA. In 1972 he received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.In 1972 he was employed as a Physicist in the Acoustical Oceanography Division of the Naval Oceanographic Office. His research was concerned with underwater acoustic propagation and acoustic interaction with the ocean bottom. In 1977.he took a Research Physicist position with the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL). In 1983 he became Supervisory Research Physicist and Head of the Boundary Effects and Ambient Noise Section within the Acoustics Division. Since joining NRL his interests have continued in acoustic bottom interaction as well as ambient noise, array performance modeling, Arctic acoustics, signal processing, and, more recently, the development of matched field processing techniques for real ocean environments.
Dr. Dicus is a member of the Acoustical Society of America.