CCU professor awarded grant to study effects of the marine environment on communication and sensing technologies

Erin Hackett, Coastal Carolina University associate professor in the Department of Coastal and Marine Systems Science, has been awarded $273,187 from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) to support a project that examines the effects of a marine environment on sensing and communications technologies.

This is Hackett’s fourth ONR award since joining the CCU faculty in 2012.

Hackett’s research project, titled “Influence of Horizontal Inhomogeneity of Refractivity Vertical Profiles on Electromagnetic Measurements in Application to Refractivity Inversions,” looks at the interactions between the air and the sea and how they influence electromagnetic waves, which are used in technologies such as cellular phones, wireless internet, and radar systems.

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