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Professor FRASIER, STEPHEN J. (Amherst)
Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering

Phone: (413) 545-4582
Email: frasier@ecs.umass.edu

**Disclaimer: Condensed CVs for the School of Marine Sciences. For a full CV, please contact the professor.**

Education:
1994 - Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

1987 - B.E.E., University of Delaware, Newark.

Professional History:
3/1997 - present - Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

1994 - 1997 - Research Engineer, Senior Research Fellow, University of Massachusetts.

1987 - 1990 - Assistant Scientist, TRW Space & Defense (SciTec subsidiary), Princeton, NJ.

Current Research Support:
Studies of Interferometric Measurement of Ocean Surface Currents, Office of Naval Research (Remote Sensing), S.J. Frasier (PI), 5/1/98 - 4/30/01, $224,294.

Equipment to Construct a Dual - Beam Interferometer for Surface Current Vector Mapping, Office of Naval Research (DURIP), S.J. Frasier (PI), J.R. Carswell (Co - PI), 3/31/99 - 9/30/00, $115,865.

High - Resolution S - band Profiling of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer, Army Research Office (YIP), S.J. Frasier (PI), 9/1/98 - 8/31/01, $150,000.

Use of Turbulent Eddy Profiler in Making Atmospheric Boundary Layer Measurements, Army Research Office (Environmental Sciences), D.H. Schaubert (PI), S.J. Frasier, J.R. Carswell (Co - PIs), 9/1/98 - 8/31/02, $388,777.

4D Radar Acoustic Profiling of the Stable Boundary Layer, S.J. Frasier (PI), A.L. Pazmany (Co - PI), Department of Energy (Environmental Meteorology), 9/1/99 - 10/31/03, $624,180.

Remote Sensing of Waves and Currents in the Nearshore Zone, Office of Naval Research (Coastal Dynamics), S.J. Frasier (PI), J.R. Carswell (Co - PI), 4/1/00 - 3/31/02, $242,266.

Selected Publications:
Moller, D., P.D. Mourad, S.J. Frasier , 2000: "Field Observations of Radar Backscatter from the Ocean Surface under Low Wind Speed Conditions", J. Geophys. Res., in press.

Frasier, S.J., Y. Liu, R.E. McIntosh, 1998: "Space - Time Properties of Radar Sea - Spikes and their Relation to Wind and Wave Conditions", J. Geophys. Res., 103, 18,745 - 18,757.

Moller, D., S.J. Frasier, D. Porter, R.E. McIntosh, 1998: "Radar - Derived Interferometric Surface Currents and their Relation to Subsurface Current Structure", J. Geophys. Res., 103(C6), 12,839 12,852.

Liu, Y., S.J. Frasier, R.E. McIntosh, 1998: "Measurement and Classification of Low Grazing Angle Radar Sea - Spikes'', IEEE Trans. Antennas & Prop., 46(1), 27 - 40.

Frasier, S.J., R.E. McIntosh, 1996: "Observed Wavenumber - Frequency Properties of Microwave Backscatter from the Ocean Surface at Near - Grazing Angles", J. Geophys. Res., 101(C8), 18,391 - 18,407.