My wife's PhD project has been modeling sound in a marine environment. She is using data collected around an offshore tidal generation site in Washington state

My wife's PhD project has been modeling sound in a marine environment. She is using data collected around an offshore tidal generation site in Washington state and using finite differencing to create models of the whole region. While I understand very little of the math behind the research, it has been interesting to see how complex the system really is. Her models account for bathymetry, soil density of the sea floor, salinity, and temperature to name a few of the inputs. The goal of the project is to have a general model that can be used to help determine impacts of noise in any underwater environment. [edit] minor grammar changes