Rate My Professor Brian Fraser

Emeritus Professor Brian Fraser holds the position of Emeritus Professor in the College of Engineering, Science and Environment within the Discipline of Physics at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He earned his PhD from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, along with a Master of Science with Honours and a Bachelor of Science from the University of New Zealand. Appointed as a Lecturer in 1968, Fraser built the Space Plasma Waves Group, which evolved into the Space Physics Group. He served as Head of the Physics Department from 1987 to 1990 and led extensive research on magnetospheric physics and waves in space plasmas. His work emphasizes ultra-low frequency (ULF) waves, geomagnetic pulsations, ion cyclotron waves, and hydromagnetic waves in the Earth's magnetosphere and ionosphere. Key initiatives under his leadership included installing magnetometers at Australian and New Zealand Antarctic bases, collaborations with UCLA on ATS-6 and ISEE spacecraft data, CRRES satellite studies, and development of the NewMag fluxgate magnetometer for the FedSat microsatellite launched in 2002. The group also contributed to the SuperDARN TIGER radar in Tasmania, imaging riometers at Davis Station, and optical imagers at Scott Base.