Edward C. Monahan, Mingzhi Lu; Acoustically relevant bubble assemblages and their dependence on meteorological parameters, IEEE J. Oceanic Eng., vol. 15, pp. 340 - 349, October 1990.
Edward C. Monahan graduated from the five-year engineering physics program at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (1959), and earned the M.A. (Physics) degree from the University of Texas at Austin (1961). He was awarded the Ph.D. degree (oceanography) by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge (1966). In 1984 he received the D.Sc. degree from the National University of Ireland, based on a portfolio of some 30 published works.He is a Professor of Marine Sciences at the University of Connecticut, and Director of the Connecticut Sea Grant College Program. Prior to that, he taught at a number of other universities, including the University of Michigan and University College, Galway. His primary research interest is in bubble-mediated air-sea exchange processes. Working closely with Professor I. G. O'Muircheartaigh of UCG and others, he has investigated the influence of wind speed and other meteorological and oceanographic factors on the frequency of wave breaking and whitecap formation. He and his colleagues in the Sea Surface Physics Laboratory of the University of Connecticut's Marine Sciences Institute continue to pursue their study of the bubbles produced by breaking waves, and of the role these bubbles play in marine aerosol production and in the air-sea transfer of radiatively important gases.