TENURE DOSSIER FOR DAVID J. McLAUGHLIN



Curriculum Vitae

David J. McLaughlin

Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003

413.896.8618, dmclaugh@umass.edu

Education

B.S. in Electrical Engineering, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1984.

Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1989. Advisor: Professor Robert McIntosh. Dissertation title: Remote Sensing the Air-Sea Interface using Airborne C and Ku-Band Scatterometers.

Professional Experience and Appointments

• Associate Dean (May 2015 – present), College of Engineering, University of Massachusetts.

• Principal Investigator and Director, NSF Engineering Research Center for Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere (September 2003 – August 2013), University of Massachusetts (lead institution), core academic partners: University of Oklahoma, Colorado State University, and University of Puerto-Rico at Mayaguez (19 institutions total)

• Interim Associate Dean (part time appointment, November 2009 – November 2012), College of Engineering, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

• Engineering Fellow (September 2007 – August 2015), Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems, Tewksbury, MA

• Professor (August 2005 – present), University of Massachusetts, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

• Armstrong Professional Development Professor (January 2002 – August 2005), University of Massachusetts, College of Engineering

• Director, Microwave Remote Sensing Laboratory (January 2001 – July 2003), University of Massachusetts, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering

• Associate Professor (January 2000 – August 2005), University of Massachusetts, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

• Associate Professor (September 1996 – December 1999), Northeastern University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

• Assistant Professor (September 1989 – August 1996), Northeastern University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

• Research Assistant (June 1984 – August 1989), Microwave Remote Sensing Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Massachusetts

• Undergraduate Assistant (June 1983 – May 1984), Microwave Remote Sensing Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Massachusetts

• Engineering Assistant (Summer 1982, January 1983), US Department of Transportation, Transportation Systems Center, Cambridge, MA

Awards and Fellowships

Distinguished Teaching Award, University of Massachusetts, 2016

Teaching for Inclusiveness, Diversity, and Equity (TIDE) Ambassador, University of Massachusetts, 2016-17

Distinguished Radar Lecturer, University of Oklahoma, 2014

Chancellor’s Medal, UMass Amherst, 2012

Distinguished Faculty Lecturer, UMass Amherst, 2012

Alumni Distinguished Faculty Award, UMass Alumni Association, 2006

Outstanding Accomplishments in Research and Creative Activity Award, UMass Amherst, 2006

Distinguished Lecturer, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2005 – 2008.

Engineer of the Year, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, New England Section, 2004

Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Summer Faculty Research Fellowship, Rome Laboratory, Hanscom AFB, MA (July – September 1996).

American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Summer Faculty Research Fellowship, Radar Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC (July – September 1991).

American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Summer Faculty Research Fellowship, Radar Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC (July – September 1990).

NASA Graduate Student Research Fellowship (1987 – 1989).

Massachusetts Board of Regents Doctoral Fellowship (1984 – 1987).

Tau Beta Pi Honor Society (Engineering)

Eta Kappa Nu Honor Society (Electrical and Computer Engineering)

Advisory Board Participation

Member, Council of Visitors, NSF Division of Engineering Education and Centers, 2016

Member, External Review Panel, Naval Research Laboratory Battle Space Environments Program, 2015

Member, Engineering Advisory Board, University of Massachusetts Boston

Member, National Research Council Committee to Assess the National Weather Service’s Modernization Program (2010 – 2012)

Member, National Research Council Committee on the Evaluation of the Multifunction Phased Array Radar Planning Process (2008-2009)

Invited testimony, National Research Council panel on “Weather Technology beyond NEXRAD” (2001)

Invited testimony, National Research Council panel on “Public Private Partnerships in the Provision of Weather Services” (2002)

Invited testimony, National Research Council panel on “Observing Weather and Climate from the Ground Up: A Nationwide Network of Networks” (2007)

Invited testimony, National Research Council panel on “Progress and Priorities of U.S. Weather Research and Research-to-Operations Activities” (2009)

Externally Sponsored Research Grants

D. J. McLaughlin, Principal Investigator, Jim Kurose, Co-PI, Kelvin Droegemeier, Co-PI, V. Chandrasekar, Co-PI, Sandra Cruz-Pol, Co-PIs, Engineering Research Center for Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere, National Science Foundation. 9/1/03-8/31/15, Grant Amount $43,000,000

[in addition to the main CASA Engineering Research Center grant, there have been ~ 12 additional grants and contracts associated with the center; those details can be provided on request]

S.J. Frasier, Principal Investigator and D.J. McLaughlin, Co-Principal Investigator, Remote Sensing of Waves and Currents during the Nearshore Canyon Experiment (NCEX), Office of Naval Research, October 2001 – September 2004, Grant Amount $449,999.

D.J. McLaughlin, Principal Investigator, UMASS Participation in the Air-Sea Flux Estimation in High Wind Boundary Layers Experiment, Office of Naval Research, October 2001 – September 2005. Grant Amount $461,521.

D.J. McLaughlin, Principal Investigator, WEB Based Data Archive for the High Wind C-Blast Project, Office of Naval Research, October 2001 – September 2004, Grant Amount $139,813.

D.J. McLaughlin, Principal Investigator, Realizing Network Sensor Webs through the Development of the Remote Instrument Definition Language, NASA Office of Earth Science, September 2001 – August 2004, Grant Amount $66,000.

D.J. McLaughlin, Principal Investigator, Improving Scatterometer Wind Retrievals in the Presence of Precipitation, NOAA/NESDIS, August 1, 2001 – July 31, 2004, Grant Amount $257,375.

D.J. McLaughlin, Principal Investigator, Dual Polarization Upgrade to the UMASS Ku/C-Band Airborne Scatterometer, NASA/Oregon State University, May 1, 2001 – April 30, 2002, Grant Amount $165,000.

D.J. McLaughlin, Principal Investigator, Atmospheric Profiling of Precipitation at C and Ku-Band, NOAA/Dept. of Commerce, February 15, 2001 – February 14, 2002, Grant Amount $45,000.

R.W. Jackson, Principal Investigator and D.J. McLaughlin, Co-Principal Investigator, Ultra Low Cost Antenna/RF Subsystems, General Electric Company, Grant Amount $25,000.

A. Pazmany, Principal Investigator and D.J. McLaughlin, Co-Principal Investigator, Dual Frequency Doppler Radar Observations of Tornadoes, National Science Foundation, June 1, 2000 – May 31, 2003, Grant Amount $377,095.

R. Tessier, Principal Investigator and D.J. McLaughlin, Co-Principal Investigator, Acquisition of Sensing Data on a Reconfigurable Platform, Electronic Systems Center, US Air Force, November 13, 2000 – March 12, 2002, Grant Amount $69,936.

D.J. McLaughlin, Principal Investigator, Improving Scatterometer Wind Retrievals of Severe Storms and Hurricanes, NASA/JPL, May 1, 2000 – April 30, 2004, Grant Amount $331,855.

D.J. McLaughlin, Principal Investigator, Remote Sensing of Estuarine Outflow Plumes with an Airborne Imaging Radar, Office of Naval Research, January 1, 2000 – December 31, 2000, Grant Amount $95,173.

D. J. McLaughlin, Principal Investigator, Polarimetric Imaging Radar Equipment, ONR Grant Number N00014-98-1-0275, February 1998 – February 1999, Grant Amount $307,763.

D.J. McLaughlin, Principal Investigator, Polarization Characteristics of Ocean Frontal Features Associated with Airborne Radar Imagery, ONR Contract Number N00014-97-1-0290, October 1996 – February 1999, Grant Amount: $221,767.

D.J. McLaughlin, Principal Investigator, and R.S. Raghavan, Co-Investigator, Bistatic Polarimeter Calibration Study, USAF Rome Laboratory, Contract Number F19628-94-C-0138, November 1994 - September 1996, Grant Amount: $381,589.

M. Rangaswamy, Principal Investigator, R.S. Raghavan, and D.J. McLaughlin, Co-Principal Investigators, A Study of Clutter Cancellation and CFAR Techniques for Non-Homogeneous and Non-Gaussian Environments, USAF Rome Laboratory, Grant Amount: $207,196.

D.J. McLaughlin, Principal Investigator, and R.S. Raghavan, Co-Investigator, Bistatic Radar Signal to Clutter Enhancement Study, USAF Rome Laboratory, Contract Number F19628-93-K-0005, February 1994 - September 1997, Grant Amount: $540,000.

D.J. McLaughlin, Principal Investigator, Polarimetric Measurements of High-Resolution Sea Clutter in the Gulf Stream, Office of Naval Research, Contract Number N00014-93-1-0918, August 1993 - July 1996, Grant Amount: $111,007.

D.J. McLaughlin, Principal Investigator, Coherent Radar Measurements of Current Shear and Bispectral Analysis of Wind-Wave Records in the Gulf Stream, Office of Naval Research, Contract Number N00014-93-1-0610, May 1993 - April 1995, Grant Amount: $280,493.

D.J. McLaughlin, Principal Investigator, and R.S. Raghavan, Co-Investigator, A Study of Polarimetric Strategies for Suppressing Bistatic Clutter with Applications to Radar Detection, U.S. Air Force Rome Laboratory, Contract Number F19628-93-K005, February 1993 - September 1996, Grant Amount: $370,913.

D.J. McLaughlin, Principal Investigator, Polarimetric Radar Calibration, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Contract Number N00173-92-M-5420, July 1992 - September 1992, Grant Amount: $12,497.

D.J. McLaughlin, Principal Investigator, and R.S. Raghavan, Co-Investigator, Exploiting Polarization Diversity and Bistatic Enhancement to Improve Target Detection in Clutter, U.S. Air Force Rome Laboratory, Contract Number F19628-91-K-0047, August 1991 - March 1994, Grant Amount: $669,122.

D.J. McLaughlin, Principal Investigator, Dual Polarized Radar Measurements of Near Shore, Low Grazing Angle Sea Clutter, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Contract Number N00173-91-M-7211, July 1991 - September 1991, Grant Amount: $24,900.

D.J. McLaughlin, Principal Investigator, and R.S. Raghavan, Co-Investigator, Measuring the Normalized Radar Cross Section of Natural and Man-Made Surfaces at 35 GHz During SWOE, U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Contract Number DACA89-90-K-0013, July 1990 - September 1991, Grant Amount: $39,934.

Publications, Seminars and Conference Presentations (Reverse Chronological Order)

2018

D. J. McLaughlin and G. Beemyn, “Queer Lights: Combining technology, LGBTQA and diversity topics in an accessible and inclusive learning environment,” to be presented at ASEE 2018 National Collaborative for Engineering Diversity (CoNECD), Crystal City, VA, April 29 – May 1, 2018.

2017

P. Kollias, M. Oue, A. Fridlind, T. Matsui, and D. J. McLaughlin, “New Cloud and Precipitation Research Avenues Enabled by low-cost Phased-array Radar Technology,” to be presented at American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, December 12, 2017, New Orleans, LA, Abstract A21P-01, Invited

D. J. McLaughlin, “CASA’s Promised 100,000 Weather Radars: Status Update,” Topics in Oceanic and Atmospheric Science (TOAS) Seminar, Stony Brook University, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Nov 1, 2017.

D. J. McLaughlin, “13 Year CASA Retrospective and Status of X-Band Weather Radars,” presented at Meteorological Technology World Expo, Amsterdam, Netherlands, October 12, 2017

2016

D. J. McLaughlin, G. Beemyn, P. Hodecker, and F.J. Harackiewicz, “Inclusivity in Engineering Education with LGBTQA Outreach, 2016 Northeast Regional ASEE Conference, South Kingston, Rhode Island, April 2016.

2015

Brendan Hickey, et al, “Establishing a Learning Environment that Stimulates Self-motivation in an Undergraduate Engineering Curriculum,” Northeast Section ASEE Zone 1 Regional Conference, student poster presentation, submitted.

Annan, J. Manwell, D. McLaughlin, and D. Pepyne, “A System for Measuring Wind Turbine Infrasound Emissions,” 6th International Meeting on Wind Turbine Noise, Glasgow, Scotland, April 2015.

D. Pepyne, A. Annan, and D. McLaughlin, “Studies in Signal Processing Approaches for Infrasound Wind Noise Reduction,” 19th AMS Conf. on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS), Phoenix, AZ, January 2015.

A. Nagarajan, M. Jacques, A. Lagace, D. Pepyne, M. Zink, and D. McLaughlin, “Lower-Cost GPS-Met Station Design for use in Dense Network Slant Path GPS-Met Estimates of Tropospheric Wet Delay and Precipitable Water Vapor,” 19th AMS Conf. on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS), Phoenix, AZ, January 2015.

2014

Jorge L. Salazar-Cerreño, V. Chandrasekar, Jorge M. Trabal, Paul Siquera, Rafael Medina, Eric Knapp, and David J. McLaughlin, “A Drop Size Distribution (DSD)-Based Model for Evaluating the Performance of Wet Radomes for Dual-Polarized Radars,” J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 31, 2409–2430, 2014.

A.M. Annan, C. M. McLain, M. E. Perham, D. N. Robear, and D. J. McLaughlin, “Incorporating a substantive hands-on experience into the Intro-to-EE course for non-majors,” ASEE 2014 Zone I Conference, April 3-5, 2014, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT, USA, 6 pp.

J. M. Trabal, E. Gorgucci, V. Chandrasekar, and D. J. McLaughlin, “Evaluation of the Self-Consistency Principle for Calibration of the CASA Radar Network Using Properties of the Observed Medium, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 52, Issue 1, January 2014, 14 pp

P. Drake, F. Lok, D. McLaughlin, J. Bourgeois, and A. Hopf, “Dual Polarization X-Band Phased Array Weather Radar: Technology Update,” International Radar Conference 2014, October 13 – 17, 2014, Lille, France.

D. McLaughlin, “10 Year CASA Retrospective and Status of X-Band Weather Radars,” Meteorological Technology World Expo 2014, Brussels, Belgium, October 24, 2014.

D. McLaughlin, “The Future of Weather Radar Technology,” panel discussion on the Weather Enterprise of the Future, American Meteorological Society Summer Community Meeting, Pennsylvania State University, August 13, 2014.

D. McLaughlin, “The CASA Project: 10 Year Retrospective,” Technical Seminar, Meteorological Institute, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, July 2, 2014.

J. Bourgeous, P. Drake, and D. McLaughlin, “X-Band Phased Array Radar: Current Radar Performance and Plans for Wake Vortex Experimentation, WakeNet 2014, Paris, France, May 14, 2014.

D. McLaughlin, “The CASA Project: 10 Year Retrospective,” Technical University of Delft Seminar, Delft, Netherlands, May 12, 2014.

2013

D. J. McLaughlin, K. Rubin, and B. Coley, “Diversity Impacts in Large Research Centers: Case Study of the US NSF Engineering Research Centers Program, 2013 Triple Helix International Conference, London, July 8, 2013.

D. J. McLaughlin, “It’s all about Systems Engineering,” Society of Women Engineers (SWE) Region D Annual Conference, Orlando, FL, March 2, 2013

D. J. McLaughlin, “Chasing Tornadoes Across Disciplines,” Dynamics of Disasters Symposium, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, February 2013.

J. M. Trabal, J. G. Colom-Ustariz, S.L. Cruz-Pol, G.A. Pablos-Vega, and D. J. McLaughlin, “Remote Sensing of Weather Hazards using a Low-Cost and Minimal Infrastructure Off-the-Grid Weather Radar Network,” IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Volume 51, Issue 5, May 2013, pp 2541 – 2555.

2012

(one of 10 authors) Weather Services for the Nation: Becoming Second to None, National Research Council, Committee on the Assessment of the National Weather Service’s Modernization Program, Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, The National Academies Press, Washington DC, 2012, 74 pp.

(one of 10 authors) The National Weather Service Modernization and Associated Restructuring: A Retrospective Assessment, National Research Council, Committee on the Assessment of the National Weather Service’s Modernization Program, Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, The National Academies Press, Washington DC, September 2012, 140 pp.

Salazar J. L., Paul Siquiera, Jorge Trabal, Eric J. Knapp, and David J. McLaughlin. "A concept for evaluating the performance of wet radomes for phased-array weather radars." Proc. IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), pp. 6903-6906

Salazar J.L., Paul Siquiera, Jorge Trabal, Eric J. Knapp, and David J. McLaughlin. "Performance of wet radomes for phased-array weather radars: Evaluation and applications." 9th European Radar Conference (EuRAD) , pp. 341-344. IEEE, 2012

R. H. Medina, J. L. Salazar, E. K. Knapp, and D. J. McLaughlin, “Calibration and Validation of the CASA Phased Array Antenna,” Prof. 42nd European Microwave Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands, October 2012, 4 pp.

R. J. Medina, E. J. Knapp, J. L. Salazar, and D. J. McLaughlin, “T/R Module for CASA Phase-Tilt Radar Antenna Array, “ Proceedings of the 42nd European Microwave Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands, October 2012, 4 pp.

J. L. Salazar, R. H. Medina, E. J. Knapp, and D. J. McLaughlin, “Low Cost X-Band Dual Polarization Phased Array Antenna Scanning Performance,” Proceedings of the 42nd European Microwave Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands, October 2012, pp. 425 – 428.

P. Drake, D. J. McLaughlin and C. McCarroll, “Requirements, architecture, and technology for NextGen surveillance and weather radar capability (NSWRC),” Integrated Communications, Navigation and Surveillance Conference (ICNS), 24-26 April, 2012, Herndon, VA.

D. J. McLaughlin, “Affordable Phased Array Weather Radars: Starting to Become a Reality,” ARMMS RF & Microwave Society Conference, April 23 & 24, 2012 Oxfordshire, UK, 10 pp.

D. J. McLaughlin, “Chasing Interdisciplinarity while Chasing Tornadoes,” University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Distinguished Faculty Lecture, April 6, 2012, Amherst, MA

R. Palumbo, K. Wood, E. Knapp, and D. J. McLaughlin, “Deployment Considerations and Hardware Technologies for Realizing X-Band Weather Radar Networks”, 7th European Conference on Radar in Meteorology and Hydrology (ERAD2012), June 2012, Toulouse, France, 6 pp.

2011

D.J. McLaughlin, “Storm Trackers: Engineering Research Center for Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere,” Raytheon Technology Today, 2011, No. 2, pp 14-17.

D. J. McLaughlin, “Taking Stock of the CASA Engineering Research Center at Year 8,” American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, 27th IIPS Conference:  Communication Radar Data in the 21st Century, 27 January, 2011, Seattle, WA.

C. McCarroll, P. Keith Kelly, and D.J. McLaughlin, “Sensitivity, architecture, & technology considerations for low-cost electronically scanned radars,” Progress in Radar Research Symposium (PIRR2011), May 2011, Adelaide, Australia.

D. J. McLaughlin and T. E. Djaferis, “Ahead of the Curve: Gap-free X-Band Technology,” Meteorological Technology International, September 2011, pp. 66-69.

D. J. McLaughlin, “CASA: Addressing the lower troposphere observation gap,” SUNY Oswego Departmental Seminar, September 2011, Oswego, NY

D. J. McLaughlin an T. E. Djaferis, “Chasing Interdisciplinary while Chasing Winds: An Overview of the CASA Engineering Research Center,” IEEE Springfield Lecture, October, 2011, Springfield, MA

D. J. McLaughlin, “Hardware Technologies for Realizing X-Band Weather Radar Networks,” International Workshop in X-Band Weather Radar, November 2011, Delft, Netherlands

D. Pepyne, D. McLaughlin, D. Westbrook, E. Lyons, E. Knapp, S. Frasier, and M. Zink, “Dense Radar Networks for Low-Flyer Surveillance,” 2011 IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security, 15-17 November, 2011, pp 413.418.

2010

D. J. McLaughlin, “Gap-free CONUS Surveillance using Dense Networks of Short-Range Radars, “ IEEE International Symposium on Phased Array Systems and Technology, 12 – 15 October, 2010, Boston, MA.

D. J. McLaughlin and C. J. McCarroll, “Low Cost Phased Arrays and the CASA Engineering Research Center,” Progress in Phased Array Radar Research (PIRR) Symposium, April 8, 2010, Adelaide, Australia.

J.M. Trabal, V. Chandrasekar, E. Gorgucci and D.J. McLaughlin, “Evaluation of the self-consistency principle for Calibration of the CASA Radar network Using Properties of the Observed Medium,” International IEEE Geoscience Remote Sensing Society Symposium (IGARSS 2010), Hololulu, Hawaii.

R. H. Medina, E. J. Knapp, J. L. Salazar, A. P. Hopf, D. J. McLaughlin, “T/R Module for the CASA Phase-Tilt Radar Antenna Array”, 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Phased Array Systems & Technology, Boston, MA, October 2010.

J. Salazar, E. Knapp, and D. J. McLaughlin., 2010: “Dual-Polarization Performance of the Phase-Tilt Antenna Array in a CASA Dense Network Radar", IEEE International Geoscience & Remote Sensing Symposium, Honolulu, Hawaii, July 25-30, 2010.

Jorge L. Salazar, Rafael H. Medina, Eric J. Knapp, Anthony P. Hopf, and David J. McLaughlin., 2010: "Scanning Performance of the CASA Phase-Tilt Radar Antenna Array”, IEEE International Symposium on Phased Array Systems & Technology, Boston, Massachusetts, US, October 12-15, 2010.

Francesc Junyent, V. Chandrasakar, David McLaughlin, Edin Insanic, and Nitin Bharadwaj, “The CASA Integrated Project 1 Networked Radar System,” Journal Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, Volume 27, Issue 1, January 2010, pp. 61 – 78.

2009

David McLaughlin, David Pepyne, V. Chandrasakar, Brenda Philips, James Kurose, Michael Zink, Eric Knapp, Kelvin Droegeiemer, Sandra Cruz-Pol, Francesc Junyent, Jerald Brotzge, David Westbrook, Nitin Bharadwaj, Yanting Wang, Eric Lyons, Kurt Hondl, Yuxiang Liu, Eric Knapp, Ming Xue, Anthony Hopf, Kevin Kloesel, Alfred Defonzo, Pavlos Kollias, Keith Brewster, Robert Contreras, Brenda Dolan, Theodore Djaferis, Edin Insanic, and Frederick Carr, “Short Wavelength Technology and the Potential for Distributed Networks of Small Radar Systems,” Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Volume 90, No. 12, December 2009, pp. 1797 – 1817.

David McLaughlin and Mark E. Russell, “Engineering Research Centers: Catalysts for Innovation and Competitiveness” Triple Helix VII: 7th Biennial International Conference on University, Industry, & Government Linkages, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, June 15-19, 2009, 6 pp.

David McLaughlin and V. Chandrasakar, “Short Wavelength Technology and the Potential for Distributed Networks of Small Radar Systems, 2009 IEEE Radar Conference, Pasadena, CA, May 6, 2009.

Jorge L. Salazar, Anthony P. Hopf, Robert F. Contreras, Brenda Philips, Eric J. Knapp, David J. McLaughlin, Jerry Brotzge, and Keith Brewster, "Coverage comparison of short range radar networks vs. conventional weather radar: Case study in the Northwestern United States", Proceedings of the IEEE International Geosciences & Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS 09), Cape Town, Africa, July 12-17, 2009.

J.M. Trabal, V. Chandrasekar, E. Gorgucci and D.J. McLaughlin, “Differential Reflectivity (ZDR) Calibration for CASA Radar Network Using Properties of the Observed Medium”, Proceedings of the IEEE International Geosciences & Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS 09), Cape Town, South Africa, July 12-17, 2009.

A. P. Hopf, D. L. Pepyne, and D. J. McLaughlin. “Topological considerations for a conus deployment of casa-type radars” American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, 2009.

A. P. Hopf, J. L. Salazar, R. Medina, V. Venkatesh, E. J. Knapp, S. J. Frasier, and D. J. McLaughlin. “CASA phased array radar system description, simulation and products,” Prof. IEEE International Geoscience & Remote Sensing Society Symposium, Cape Town, South Africa, July 2009.

2008

(one of 10 authors) Evaluation of the Multifunction Phased Array Radar Planning Process, National Research Council, Committee on the Evaluation of the Multifunction Phased Array Radar Planning Process, Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, The National Academies Press, Washington DC, September 2008, 79 pp.

Sarcione, M., N. Kolias, M. Booen, D. McLaughlin, F. Chang, and A. Hajimiri, “Looking Ahead: The Future of RF Technology, Military and Homeland Perspectives,” Microwave Journal, 51(7), 52 – 62, 2008.

A. Puzella and D. McLaughlin, “Active Panel Array Technology Enables Affordable Weather Radar”, Raytheon Technology Today, 2008, Issue #2.

B. C. Donovan, D. J. McLaughlin, M. Zink and J. Kurose, “Western Massachusetts Off-the-Grid Radar Technology Testbed” 2008 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, July 6-11, Boston, MA, USA.

D. J. McLaughlin, “CASA Overview,” 2008 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, July 6-11, Boston, MA, USA.

A. P. Hopf, E. J. Knapp, and D. J. McLaughlin, “Scalable Multifunction Dense Radar Network,” 2008 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, July 6-11, Boston, MA, USA.

J. L. Salezar, R. Medina, E. J. Knapp, and D. J. McLaughlin, “Phase-Tilt Antenna Array Design for Dense Distributed Radar Network for Weather Sensing,” 2008 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, July 6-11, Boston, MA, USA.

V. Chandrasekar, D. J. McLaughlin, J. Brotzge, M. Zink, B. Philips, and Y. Wang, “Evaluation of Distributed Collaborative Adaptive Sensing in a Four-Node Radar Network: Integrative Project 1,” 2008 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, July 6-11, Boston, MA, USA.

J.M. Trabal, I. Zawadzki and D.J. McLaughlin, "A Method to Correct for Wet Radome Attenuation in CASA Radars by the Use of a Contiguous WSR-88D Radar", Proc. European Radar Conference (ERAD 2008), Helsinki, Finland, 2008.

2007

D. McLaughlin, E. Knapp, Y. Wang, and V. Chandrasakar, "Distributed Weather Radar Using X-Band Active Arrays," IEEE Radar 2007 Conference Digest, April 17, 2007.

J. Kurose, E. Lyons, D. McLaughlin, D. Pepyne, B. Philips, D. Westbrook and M. Zink,  “An End-User-Responsive Sensor Network Architecture for Hazardous Weather Detection, Prediction and Response,” in Technologies for Advanced Heterogeneous Networks II, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg Volume 4311, 2007.

J. Salazar, E. Knapp, D. J. McLaughlin., 2007: "Antenna Design Tradeoffs for Dense Distributed Radar Network for Weather Sensing", Preprints Proceedings of 33rd International Conference on Radar Meteorology, Cairns, Australia, 2007.

J.M. Trabal and D.J. McLaughlin, "Rainfall Estimation and Rain Gauge Comparison for X-Band Polarimetric CASA Radars", Proc. International Geoscience Remote Sensing Society Symposium (IGARSS 07), Barcelona, Spain, 2007.

2006

B. Plale, et al., “CASA and LEAD: Adaptive Cyberinfrastructure for Real-Time Multi-scale Weather Forecasting , IEEE Computer, Vol. 39, No. 11, November 2006, pp. 56-64.

Z. C. Tulu, S. J. Frasier, R. Janaswamy, and D. J. McLaughlin, “Considerations for bistatic probing of clear-air winds in the atmospheric boundary layer, “ Radio Science, Volume 41, No. 3.

J. Brotzge, K. Droegemeier, and D.J. McLaughlin, “Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere: New radar system for improving analysis and forecasting of surface weather conditions,” in Management and Delivery of Maintenance and Operations Services, Journal of the Transportation Research Board, pp. 145-151, 2006.

B. C. Donovan, A. Hopf, J. Trabal, B. Roberts, D. J. McLaughlin, and J. Kurose, “Off-the-grid radar networks for quantitative precipitation estimation, Proceedings of the European Radar Conference, ERAD2006, Barcelona, Spain, September 2006.

David J. McLaughlin, Chandrasekar V Chandra, Jim Kurose, Sandra Cruz-Pol, “Short wavelength technology and the potential for distributed networks of small radar systems”, International Geoscience Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS 2006), Denver, Colorado, July 2006.

Francesc Junyent, Luko Krnan, Michael Zink, Chandrasekar V., and David J. McLaughlin, “A reconfigurable weather radar network: architecture, data flow, and preliminary observations,” International Geoscience Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS 2006), Denver, Colorado, July 2006.

B. Donovan, J. Kurose, and D. J. McLaughlin, “An Energy Consumption Model for Off-The-Grid Radar Networks,” International Geoscience Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS 2006), Denver, Colorado, July 2006.

B.C. Donovan, A. Hopf, J.M. Trabal, B.J. Roberts, D.J. McLaughlin and J. Kurose, "Off-the-Grid Radar Networks for Quantitative Precipitation Estimation", Proceedings European Radar Conference (ERAD), Barcelona, Spain, 2006.

J.M. Trabal, B.C. Donovan, M. Vega, V. Marrero, D.J. McLaughlin and J.G. Colom, "Puerto Rico Student Test Bed Applications and System Requirements Document Development", Proc. ICEE 2006, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

2005

M.A. Sletten and D.J. McLaughlin, “Radar Polarimetry”, Wiley Encyclopedia of  RF and Microwave Engineering, (Kai Chang, Editor), John Wiley and Sons, New York, New York, January 2005.

M. Zink, J. Brotzge, V. Chandresakar, K. Droegemeier, J. Kurose, D. McLaughlin, B. Philips, M. Preston, P. Rees, S. Sekelsky, D. Westbrook, "Distributed Collaborative Adaptive Sensing for Hazardous Weather Detection, Tracking, and Predicting," Dynamic Data Driven Applications Systems, ed. F. Darema, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Netherlands (in press).

D. McLaughlin, V. Chandrasekar, K. Droegemeier, S. Frasier, J. Kurose, F. Junyent, B. Philips, S. Cruz-Pol, and J. Colom, “Distributed Collaborative Adaptive Sensing (DCAS) for Improved Detection, Understanding, and Prediction of Atmospheric Hazards,” preprints, 9th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface, 9-13 January, 2005, San Diego, CA, American Meteorological Society.

F. Junyent, V. Chandrasekar, S. Frasier, H. Bluestein, and D.J. McLaughlin, “High resolution dual-polarization radar observation of tornadoes: Implications for radar development and tornado detection.” International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS’05), Seoul, Korea, July 2005.

B. Donovan, D.J. McLaughlin, V. Chandrasekar, and J. Kurose, “Design Considerations for Short-Range Energy Balanced Radar Networks,” International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS’05), Seoul, Korea, July 2005.

F. Junyent, V.Chandrasekar, D.J.McLaughlin, S. Frasier, E. Insanic, E. Knapp, N. Bharadwaj, R. Ahmed, L. Krnan and R. Tessier, “Salient features of radar nodes of the first generation NetRad system,” International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS’05), Seoul, Korea, July 2005.

D.J. McLaughlin, “Short Wavelength Technology and the Potential for Distributed Networks of Small Radar Systems,” World Weather Research Program Symposium on Nowcasting and Very Short Range Forecasting (WSN05), Toulouse, France, 5-9 September, 2005. (invited)

2004

X. Zhang, E.M. Twarog, D.J. McLaughlin, M.A. Sletten, G.O. Marmorino, C.L. Trump, and N. Allan, “Radar scattering behavior of estuarine outflow plumes,” IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol 42, pp. 367-379, February 2004.

G. Farquaharson, W.N. Junek, A. Ramanathan, S.J. Frasier, R. J. Tessier, D.J. McLaughlin, and M.A. Sletten, “A Pod-Based Dual-Beam SAR,” IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, Vol. 1, No. 2, April 2004, pp. 62 – 65.

Stephen Sekelsky, Frasier, S., McLaughlin, D., Kurose, J., Chandrasekar, V., Droegemeier , K., Cruz-Pol, S., Colom, J., “NETRAD – A Network Weather Radar Concept,” International Union of Radio Science (URSI) National Radio Science Meeting, Boulder, CO, January 5-8, 2004.

J. Brotzge, V. Chandresakar, K. Droegemeier, J. Kurose, D. McLaughlin, B. Philips, M. Preston, S. Sekelsky, “Distributed Collaborative Adaptive Sensing for Hazardous Weather Detection, Tracking, and Predicting,” Computational Science – ICCS 2004: 4th International Conference, Krakow, Poland, June 6-9, 2004, Proceedings, Part III, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag Heidelberg, pp. 670 – 677. (invited)

V. Chandrasekar, S. Lim, N. Bharadwaj, D. McLaughlin, V.N. Bringi, and E. Gorgucci, “Networked radar operation at attenuating frequencies: principles and applications,” Proceedings of the Third European Conference on Radar Meteorology and Hydrology (ERAD), September 5-8, 2004, Visby, Sweden, pp. 109 - 114.

Jilong Yang,  Xuehu Zhang,  Xiuwan Chen,  Yinghai Ke,  Daniel Esteban, James Carswell, Stephen Frasier, D.J. McLaughlin, P. Chang, P. Black, and F. Marks, F., “Effect of precipitation on ocean wind scatterometry,” Proceedings of the International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2004. (IGARSS '04), Anchorage, AK, 20-24 September 2004, Vol. 7, pp. 4913 – 4916

Yinghai Ke,  Xuehu Zhang, Xiuwan Chen, Jilong Yang, Daniel Esteban, James Carswell, Stephen Frasier, D.J. McLaughlin, P. Chang, P.  Black, and F Marks, “3-D hurricane boundary layer wind retrieval algorithm for airborne Doppler radar measurements,” Proceedings of the International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2004 (IGARSS '04), Anchorage, AK, 20-24 September 2004, Vol. 1, pp. 36-39

S. Lim, V. Chandrasekar, and D.J. McLaughlin, “Retrieval of reflectivity in a networked radar environment,” Proceedings of the International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2004 (IGARSS '04), Anchorage, AK,  20-24 September 2004, Vol. 1, pp. 436 – 439.

2003

Jilong Yang, Xuehu Zhang, Xiuwan Chen, Daniel Esteban, David McLaughlin, Jim Carswell, Paul Chang, Peter Black, and Yinghai Ke, “Effect of Precipitation on Sea Surface Wind Scatterometry,” Proceedings of the joint 24th Joint Asian Conference on Remote Sensing/International Symposium on Remote Sensing, Korea, November 2003, pp. 1121-1123.

William N. Junek, Arunachalam Ramanathan, Gordon Farquharson, Stephen J. Frasier, Mark A. Sletten and Jakov V. Toporkov, Russell Tessier and David J. McLaughlin “First Observations with the UMass Dual-Beam InSAR,” Proceedings of the International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, France, 21-25 July 2003, Vol. 1, pp. 530 - 532.

Daniel Esteban Fernandez, Xuehu Zhang, James Carswell, D.J. McLaughlin, Paul Chang, Larry Connor, Peter Black and Frank Marks, “Hurricane Wind and Rain Measurements Using a Dual Polarized C/Ku-band Airborne Radar Profiler,” Proceedings of the International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, France, 21-25 July 2003, Vol. 2, pp. 1247 – 1248.

Daniel Esteban Fernandez, Xuehu Zhang, Antoni Castells, David McLaughlin, James Carswell, Paul Chang, Laurence Connor, Peter Black, and Frank Marks, “The Imaging Wind and Rain Airborne Profiler – A Dual Frequency Dual Polarized Conically Scanning Airborne Profiling Radar,” Proceedings of the International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, France, 21 – 25 July 2003, Vol. 7, pp. 4246-4248.

2002

Black, P., F. D. Marks, Jr., E. W. Uhlhorn, D. McLaughlin, X. Zhang, and E. J. Walsh,  Observations of Hurricane Boundary Layer Stucture and Air-Sea Interaction Processes from HAL 2001/CAMEX4 (NASA) as a Prelude to HAL2002 / CBLAST (ONR), 25th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, San Diego, CA, 29 April—3 May 2002.

W.G. Stevens, D.J. McLaughlin, M.J. Sowa, B. Weijers, and X. Zhang, “Bistatic Scattering Behavior of Forested Hills at Grazing Incidence,” Electronics Letters, Vol. 37, No. 12, June 7, 2001, pp. 783-784.

D.J. McLaughlin, Y. Wu, W.G. Stevens, and M.J. Sowa, “Fully Polarimetric Bistatic Scattering Measurements of Forested Hills,” IEEE Transactions Antennas and Propagation, Vol. 50, No. 2, February 2002, pp. 101 – 110.

D. J. McLaughlin, “Short Wavelength Technology and the Potential for Distributed Networks of Small Radar Systems,” National Research Council - Board on Atmospheric Sciences – Public/Private Partnership for National Weather Services, May 16, 2002, Cambridge, MA.

2001

D. J. McLaughlin, “Short Wavelength Technology and the Potential for Distributed Networks of Small Radar Systems,” National Research Council - Board on Atmospheric Sciences - Committee on Weather Technology Beyond NEXRAD, September 2001, Fort Collins, CO.

Pazmany, A., J.B. Mead, S.M. Sekelsky, D.J. McLaughlin, and H. Bluestein, “Multi-Frequency Radar Estimation of Liquid Cloud and Precipitation Properties using an Artificial Neural Network, “ preprints of the American Meteorological Society Radar Conference, July 1, 2001, Munich, Germany.

M.A. Sletten, E.M. Twarog, X. Zhang, and D.J. McLaughlin, “Variability in the Evolution of the Chesapeake Bay Outflow Plume Front as Observed with a Real Aperture Radar,” Proceedings of the International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society Symposium (IGARSS’01), 9-13 July 2001, Vol. 1, pp. 281 – 283.

A. Ramanathan, R. Tessier, D. McLaughlin, J. Carswell, and S. Frasier, “Acquisition of Sensing Data on a Reconfigurable Platform,” Proceedings of the International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society Symposium (IGARSS’01), 9-13 July 2001, Vol. 1, pp. 222 – 223.

2000

McLaughlin, D. J., X. Zhang, M. Sletten, G. Marmorino, E. M. Twarog, Airborne Imaging Radar Linked to Ship-based In-situ Sampling for Monitoring Estuarine Outflow Plumes, Ocean Science Meeting (OS2000), American Geophysical Union (AGU), San Antonio, Texas, January 24 - 28, 2000.

Sletten, M., D. J. McLaughlin, X. Zhang, The Spatial Evolution of the Chesapeake Bay Outflow Plume Front as Observed in COPE2 and COPE5, Ocean Science Meeting (OS2000), American Geophysical Union (AGU), San Antonio, Texas, January 24 - 28, 2000

Sletten, M., E. M. Twarog, G. Marmorino, D. J. McLaughlin, X. Zhang, “Polarization and Look-Direction Dependencies Observed in Radar Imagery of the Chesapeake Bay Outflow Plume Front,” Proceedings of the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society Symposium (IGARSS'2000), Hawaii, 24 – 28 July 2000, Vol. 3, pp. 1289 - 1291.

Pazmany, A., D.J. McLaughlin, H.B. Bluestein, and C.C. Weiss, “High Resolution 95 GHz radar reflectivity and Doppler images of tornadoes,” Proceedings of the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society Symposium (IGARSS'2000), Hawaii, 24 – 28 July 2000, Vol. 6, pp. 2498 - 2500.

Zhang, X., D. J. McLaughlin, M. Sletten, E. M. Twarog, Remote Sensing of Estuarine Outflow Plumes with an Airborne Imaging Radar, The 10th International Biennial Conference on Physics of Estuaries and Coastal Seas (PECS2000), 7 - 11 October 2000, Norfolk, Virginia.

Sletten, M., E. Twarog, X. Zhang, D. J. McLaughlin, A Comparison of the Chesapeake Bay Outflow Plume Front Evolution as Observed with a Real Aperture Radar During COPE2 and COPE5, The 10th International Biennial Conference on Physics of Estuaries and Coastal Seas (PECS2000), 7 – 11, October 2000, Norfolk, Virginia.

1999

N. Allan, C.L. Trump, D.B. Trizna, and D.J. McLaughlin, “Dual-Polarized Doppler Radar Measurements of Oceanic Fronts, ” IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 37, No. 1, January 1999, pp. 395 – 417.

M. A. Sletten, G.O. Marmorino, T.F. Donato, D.J. McLaughlin, and E.M. Twarog, “An Airborne, Real Aperture Radar Study of the Chesapeake Bay Outflow Plume,” Journal of Geophysical Research – Oceans, Vol. 104, No, C1, January 1999, pp. 1211 - 1222.

M.A. Sletten and D.J. McLaughlin, “Radar Polarimetry”, Encyclopedia of Electrical Engineering, John Wiley and Sons, New York, New York, January 1999.

1998

D.J. McLaughlin, E.M. Twarog, and M. Sletten, “Polarimetric Characteristics of Ocean Frontal Features in Airborne Radar Imagery,” Proceedings of the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS’98), Seattle, WA, July 6-8, 1998.

E.M. Twarog, D.J. McLaughlin, and M. Sletten, “Polarimetric Radar Signatures of the Chesapeake Bay Outflow Plume,” Proceedings of the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS’98), Seattle, WA, July 6-8, 1998.

W.G. Stevens, D.J. McLaughlin, M.J. Sowa, B. Weijers, “Low Grazing Angle Bistatic Foliage Clutter Measurements,” Proceedings of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation/URSI Symposium, Atlanta, GA, June 20-23, 1998 (abstract).

N. Allan, D.B. Trizna, and D.J. McLaughlin, “Numerical Comparison of Techniques for Estimating Doppler Velocity Time-Series from Coherent Sea Surface Scattering Measurements,” IEE Proceedings – Radar, Sonar, and Navigation, Vol. 145, No. 6, December 1998, pp. 367 – 373.

1997

M.J. Sowa and D.J. McLaughlin, “Experiments in Bistatic Scattering Phenomenology,” Proceedings of the IEEE National Radar Conference (NATRAD’97), Syracuse, NY, 13 – 15 May 1997, pp. 154 – 159.

1996

N. Allan, D.B. Trizna, and D.J. McLaughlin, “Low Grazing Angle Dual-Polarized Doppler Radar Measurements of Oceanic Fronts,” Proceedings of the International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society Symposium (IGARSS’96), Seattle, WA, May 1996, Vol. 2, pp. 905 – 907.

E.M. Twarog, D.J. McLaughlin, and N. Allan, “High Resolution Polarimetric Radar Scattering Measurements of Low Grazing Angle Sea Clutter,” Proceedings of the International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society Symposium (IGARSS’96), Seattle, WA, May 1996, Vol. 3, pp 1745 – 1748.

R.S. Raghavan, N. Pulsone, and D.J. McLaughlin, "Performance of the GLRT for Adaptive Vector Subspace Detection," IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Vol. 32, No. 4, October 1996, pp. 1473 - 1487.

1995

D.J. McLaughlin, E. Boltniew, R.S. Raghavan, and M.J. Sowa, "Cross-polarised Bistatic Clutter Measurements," Electronics Letters, Vol. 31, No. 6, March 16, 1995, pp. 490-491.

R.S. Raghavan, H.F. Qiu, and D.J. McLaughlin, “CFAR Detection in Clutter with Unknown Correlation Properties," IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Vol. 31, No. 2, April 1995, pp. 647-657.

R.S. Raghavan, N. Pulsone, and D.J. McLaughlin, "Adaptive Estimation of the Polarization of a Signal," IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Vol. 31, No. 2, April 1995, pp. 845 -852.

D.J. McLaughlin, Z. Ren, and Y. Wu, "A Bistatic Polarimeter Calibration Technique," IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 33, No. 3, May 1995, pp. 796-799.

D.J. McLaughlin, N. Allan, E.M. Twarog, and D.B. Trizna, "High Resolution Polarimetric Radar Scattering Measurements of Low Grazing Angle Sea Clutter," IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, Vol. 20, No. 3, July 1995, pp. 166-178.

D.J. McLaughlin, R.S. Raghavan, W.G. Stevens, and M.J. Sowa, "Bistatic Terrain Clutter Dependence on Out-of-Plane Scattering Angle," Electronics Letters, Vol. 31, No. 15, July 20, 1995, pp. 1291-1292.

I.A. Leykin, M.A. Donelan, R.H. Mellen, and D.J. McLaughlin, "Asymmetry of Wind Waves Studied in a Laboratory Wave Tank," Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics, Vol. 2, No. 3/4, September 1995, pp. 280 - 289.

Z. Ren, Y. Wu, and D.J. McLaughlin, "Field Calibration of Polarimetric Bistatic Radar Systems," Digest of the Thirteenth Annual Benjamin Franklin Symposium on New Frontiers in Antenna and Microwave Technology, The Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, PA, May 5, 1995, page 21.

E.M. Twarog, D.J. McLaughlin, and N. Allan, "Polarimetric Scattering Signatures of Sea Spikes," Digest of the Thirteenth Annual Benjamin Franklin Symposium on New Frontiers in Antenna and Microwave Technology, The Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, PA, May 5, 1995, page 22.

D.J. McLaughlin, Y. Wu, N. Pulsone, and R.S. Raghavan, "Polarimetric Radar Scattering Behavior of Forested Hills at Large Bistatic Angles," Proceedings of the 1995 Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS ‘95), University of Washington, Seattle, WA, July 24-28, 1995, page 227.

W.G. Stevens and D.J. McLaughlin, "High Resolution Measurements of Bistatic Scattering from Foliage," Proceedings of the 1995 Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS ‘95), University of Washington, Seattle, WA, July 24-28, 1995, page 225.

M.J. Sowa, D.J. McLaughlin, and Y. Wu, "A Bistatic Radar Polarimeter for Terrain Scattering Studies," Proceedings of the 1995 Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS ‘95), University of Washington, Seattle, WA, July 24-28, 1995, page 226.

N. Allan, D.B. Trizna, L.U. Martin, and D.J. McLaughlin, "Dual Polarized Doppler Radar Measurements Across Oceanic Fronts Along the Northern Boundary of the Gulf Stream," Digest of the Twenty-First International Association for Physical Sciences of the Ocean Meeting (IAPSO ‘95), Honolulu, HI, August 7-12, 1995, page 95.

Y. Wu, Z. Ren, D.J. McLaughlin, N. Pulsone, and R.S. Raghavan, "Polarimetric Radar Scattering from Tree-Covered Terrain at Bistatic Angles," Digest of the Thirteenth Annual Benjamin Franklin Symposium on New Frontiers in Antenna and Microwave Technology, The Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, PA, May 5, 1995, pp. 87-90.

D.J. McLaughlin and R.S. Raghavan, “Fully Polarimetric Bistatic Radar Scattering Behavior of Forested Hills,” Proceedings of the ARPA/USAF Hot Clutter Technical Interchange Meeting, August 23-24, 1995, Griffis AFB, Rome, NY.

D.J. McLaughlin, N. Allan, and E.M. Twarog, "A High-Resolution X-Band Polarimeter," in Ultra Wideband Short Pulse Electromagnetics, Eds. H.L. Bertoni, L. Carin, and L.B. Felsen. New York: Plenum Press, 1995, pp. 141 - 148.

1994

Y. Wu, D.J. McLaughlin, E. Boltniew, J. Barclay, R.S. Raghavan, M.J. Sowa, and W.G. Stevens, "A Bistatic Radar Test Bed for Target and Clutter Depolarization Studies," Digest of the Twelfth Annual Benjamin Franklin Symposium on Antennas and Microwave Technology in the 1990’s, Villanova, PA, May 6, 1994, pp. 81-84.

N. Allan, D.J. McLaughlin, E.M. Twarog, I.A. Leykin, D.B. Trizna, L.U. Martin, and M. Sletten, "Shipborne Remote Sensing of Submesoscale Oceanographic Features along the Northern Boundary of the Gulf Stream," Proceedings of the International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS ‘94), Pasadena, CA, August 1994, pp. 1723 - 1727.

D.J. McLaughlin, E. Boltniew, Y. Wu, and R.S. Raghavan, "Low Grazing Angle Bistatic NRCS of Forested Clutter," Electronics Letters, Vol. 30, No. 18, September 1, 1994, pp. 1532-1533.

M.J. Sowa and D.J. McLaughlin, "Exploiting Polarization Diversity and Bistatic Enhancement to Improve Target Detection in Clutter: A Program Description," USAF Rome Laboratory Technical Report #RL-TR-94-44, March 1994, 24 pp.

J.R. Carswell, S.C. Carson, R.E. McIntosh, F.K. Li, G. Neumann, D.J. McLaughlin, J.C. Wilkerson, P.G. Black, and S.V. Nghiem, “Airborne Scatterometers: Investigating Ocean Backscatter under Low- and High-Wind Conditions," Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 82, No. 12, December 1994, pp. 1835-1860.

1993

N. Allan, D.J. McLaughlin, R.S. Raghavan, and D.B. Trizna, "High-Resolution Fully-Polarimetric Measurements of Low Grazing Angle Sea Clutter at X-Band," Proceedings of the 1993 Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS ‘93), Pasadena, CA, July 12-16, 1993.

D.J. McLaughlin, E. Boltniew, J. Barclay, R.S. Raghavan, and M.J. Sowa, "Large Bistatic Angle Clutter Depolarization Study", Proceedings of the AGARD/NATO EPP 53rd Symposium on Multiple Mechanisms Propagation Paths (MMPPs) Their Characterization and Influence on System Design, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, October 4-8, 1993, pp. 21.1 - 21.10.

M.J. Sowa and D.J. McLaughlin, "Exploiting Polarization Diversity and Bistatic Enhancement to Improve Target Detection in Clutter - A Program Description," 1993 Workshop on Progress in Bistatic Radar, Griffis AFB, Rome, NY, May 1993.

D.J. McLaughlin, A. Hartman, E. Boltniew, J. Barclay, R.S. Raghavan, and M.J. Sowa, "Bistatic Radar Test Bed Measurements of Tree-Clutter Depolarization,” 1993 Workshop on Progress in Bistatic Radar, Griffis AFB, Rome, NY, May 1993.

1992

S.C. Carson, R.E. McIntosh, A.W. Paylor, F.K. Li, G. Neumann, and D.J. McLaughlin, "C-Band Measurement of Radar Backscatter from the Ocean Surface During SWADE," Proceedings of the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS '92), Houston, TX, May 26 - 29, 1992, Vol. 1, pp. 693 - 695.

N. Allan, D.J. McLaughlin, and D.B. Trizna, "A High-Resolution, Polarimetric Radar for Measurement of Low Grazing Angle Sea Clutter at X-Band,” Digest of the Tenth Annual Benjamin Franklin Symposium on Antennas and Microwave Technology in the 1990's, Philadelphia, PA, May 2, 1992, page 71.

S.C. Carson, R.E. McIntosh, M.A. Goodberlet, C.T. Swift, P.G. Black, J.C. Wilkerson, and D.J. McLaughlin, "Simultaneous Active and Passive Wind Speed Estimates Made During Underflights of the ERS-1 Satellite," Digest of the International URSI Conference on Microwave Remote Sensing: Systems, Techniques, and Theory, Innsbruck, Austria, July 1 - 3, 1992, pp. 3B.14-3B.15.

S.C. Carson, R.E. McIntosh, M.A. Goodberlet, C.T. Swift, J.C. Wilkerson, and D.J. McLaughlin, "Airborne C-Band Scatterometer Measurements Obtained During Underflights of the ERS-1 Satellite in the Gulf of Mexico," ERS-1 Geophysical Validation Workshop, Panhorst, Bretagne, France, April 27 - 30, 1992.

S.C. Carson, R.E. McIntosh, M.A. Goodberlet, C.T. Swift, P.G. Black, J.C. Wilkerson, and D.J. McLaughlin, "Intercomparison of Airborne C-Band Scatterometer Measurements with in-situ Buoy, Aircraft, and Satellite Surface Wind Estimates: Initial Results and Future Applications," MeteoFrance Specialty Meeting on Airborne Radars and Lidars, Toulouse, France, July 7 - 10, 1992.

D.J. McLaughlin and D.B. Trizna, "A New High-Resolution X-Band Polarimeter for Ocean Remote Sensing," presented at the Joint ONR/NRL High Resolution Remote Sensing (HIRES) Workshop, Washington, DC, November 1992.

S.C. Carson, R.E. McIntosh, and D.J. McLaughlin, "Low Wind Speed Radar Backscatter Measurements at C- and Ku-Band Obtained during the Surface Waves Dynamics Experiment," presented at the SWAPP/SWADE Meeting, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, December 4-6, 1992.

1991

R.S. Raghavan, Y. Chi, and D.J. McLaughlin, "Empirical Study of Pixel Intensity Statistics in L-Band SAR Imagery of the Ocean," Proceedings of the 1991 Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS ‘91), Boston, MA, July 1991, page 454.

D.J. McLaughlin, N. Allan, R.S. Raghavan, D.B. Trizna, L.U. Martin, and M. Siegert, "Simultaneous VV and HH Measurements of Very Low Grazing Angle Sea Clutter at X-Band," Proceedings of the 1991 Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS ‘91), Boston, MA, July 1991, page 457.

D.B. Trizna, K. Hathaway, and D.J. McLaughlin, "Radar Sea Scatter from Shoaling Waves During the DELIAH Experiment," 1991 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting Program, San Francisco, CA, December 9-13, 1991, page 276.

D.J. McLaughlin, R.E. McIntosh, A.L. Pazmany, L.G. Hevizi, and E. Boltniew, "A C-Band Scatterometer for Remote Sensing the Air-Sea Interface," IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 29, No. 2, March 1991, pp. 260-267.

E.J. Walsh, F.C. Jackson, D.E. Hines, C. Piazza, L.G. Hevizi, D.J. McLaughlin, R.E. McIntosh, R.N. Swift, J.F. Scott, J.K. Yungel, and E.B. Frederick, “Frequency Dependence of Electromagnetic Bias in Radar Altimeter Sea Surface Range Measurements," Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, Vol. 96, No. C11, November 15, 1991, pp. 20,571-20,583.

1990

E.J. Walsh, F.C. Jackson, D.E. Hines, C. Piazza, L.G. Hevizi, R.E. McIntosh, D.J. McLaughlin, R.N. Swift, J.F. Scott, J.K. Yungel, and E.B. Frederik, "Frequency Dependence of Electromagnetic Bias in Sea Surface Range Measurements," Proceedings of the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS '90), Washington, DC, May 1990, pp. 695-698.

R.E. McIntosh, D.J. McLaughlin, S.C. Carson, and E. Boltniew, "Remote Sensing Land and Ocean Surfaces Using a 5 GHz Scatterometer," Proceedings of the 20th European Microwave Conference and Microcoll Workshop, Budapest, Hungary, September 1990, pp. 20-24.

D.J. McLaughlin, L.G. Hevizi, and R.E. McIntosh, "C- and Ku-Band Observations of Sea Surface Electromagnetic Bias,” Digest of the URSI Commission F Meeting on Signature Problems in Microwave Remote Sensing of the Surface of the Earth, Hyannis, MA, May 1990, page I4.

R.E. McIntosh and D.J. McLaughlin, “Ocean Surface NRCS Measurements Obtained with an Airborne C-Band Scatterometer and a Spinning Antenna,” Proceedings of the 10th Annual International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS ‘90), The University of Maryland, College Park, MD, May 20-24, 1990, page 1065.

R.E. McIntosh and D.J. McLaughlin, “Ocean Surface NRCS Measurements Obtained with an Airborne C-Band Scatterometer and a Spinning Antenna,” Digest of the URSI Commission F Meeting on Signature Problems in Microwave Remote Sensing of the Surface of the Earth, Hyannis, MA, May 1990, page H4.

1989

D.J. McLaughlin, A.L. Pazmany, E. Boltniew, L. G. Hevizi, and R.E. McIntosh, "An Airborne C-Band Scatterometer for Remote Sensing the Air-Sea Interface," Proceedings of the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS '89), Vancouver, Canada, June 1989, pp. 1879 - 1882.

C.D. Massey, F. Lalezari, D.J. McLaughlin, and R.E. McIntosh, "An Electromechanically-Scanned Microstrip Antenna for Airborne Applications," Proceedings of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, San Jose, CA, June 26-30, 1989, page 902.

D.J. McLaughlin, A.L. Pazmany, E. Boltniew, and R.E. McIntosh, "Sea Clutter Measurements Made with a Novel Airborne C-Band Scatterometer," Proceedings of the 1989 Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS ’89), Boston, MA, July 1989, page 381.

Additional lectures and briefings

"A Bistatic Radar Test Bed for Signal-to-Clutter Enhancement Studies", presented to Boston Chapter of IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society, October 19, 1993, Hanscom AFB, MA.

“Fully Polarimetric Bistatic Radar Scattering Behavior of Forested Hills,” presented to Boston Chapter of IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society, September 12, 1995, Hanscom AFB, MA.

“Remote Sensing of Estuarine Outflow Plumes with an Airborne Imaging Radar,” lecture presented at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, July 1, 1999.

“Plan to Develop an Engineering Research Center for Extreme Weather Events,” seminar presented to US Naval Research Laboratory Remote Sensing Division, December 12, 2000, Washington DC.

(with A. Pazmany) “Plan to Engineer the Next Generation of Environmental Monitoring Systems,” presented to US Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Center, Hanover, NH, September 21, 2000.

“Remote Sensing of Estuarine Outflow Plumes with an Airborne Imaging Radar, lecture presented at Scripps Institute for Oceanography, La Jolla, Ca, January 5, 2000.

“Remote Sensing of Estuarine Outflow Plumes with an Airborne Imaging Radar,” lecture presented at Boston Chapter of IEEE Geoscience Remote Sensing Society, January 20, 2000.

(with J. Carswell) “The UMASS Engineering Research Center – Bringing Innovative Real-time Intelligent Sensors to the Forecast and Research Communities,” Presented to the Working Group for Hurricane and Winter Storm Operations and Hurricane Research, NOAA Tropical Prediction Center/National Hurricane Center, Miami, FL, May 26, 2000.

(with S. J. Frasier) “Plan to Establish a National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center for Extreme Weather Events,” seminar presented to Army Research Office, January, 2001, Research Triangle Park, NC.

(with S. J. Frasier) “Plan to Establish a National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center for Extreme Weather Events,” seminar presented jointly to Army Research Laboratory/White Sands Missile Range, February, 2001, Baltimore, MD.

(with Andrew Pazmany) “Plan to Develop an Engineering Research Center for Extreme Weather Events,” seminar presented at National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), March 23, 2001, Boulder, CO.

“Plan to Develop an Engineering Research Center for Extreme Weather Events,” seminar presented at Microsoft Research Corp, April 3, 2001, Redmond, WA.

“Short Wavelength Technology and a New Paradigm for Weather Observing,” seminar presented at University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, August 2002, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico.

“The Vision and Research Program of the Center for Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere,” Departmental Seminar, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, November 17, 2003.

“The Vision and Research Program of the Center for Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere,” University of Michigan Department of Space and Atmospheric Sciences Seminar, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, December 5, 2003.

“The Vision and Research Program of the Center for Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere,” American Institute of Astronautics and Aeronautics (AIAA) New England Section Seminar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, January 17, 2004.

“Distributed Collaborative Adaptive Sensing for Hazardous Weather Detection, Tracking, and Predicting,” IEEE Boston Section, Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society and Antennas and Propagation Society Seminar, April 6, 2004, Lexington, MA.

“Dense Radar Networks for Weather Sensing: Implications for Spectrum Allocation,” Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) Radar Spectrum and Technology Working Group (RSTWG), Arlington, VA, May 11, 2004.

“Distributed Collaborative Adaptive Sensing: A New Paradigm for Detecting, Understanding, and Predicting Hazards, “ Seminar Presented at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, July 2004.

“CASA – Director’s Perspective” Seminar Presented at University of Oklahoma, August 27, 2004

“Distributed Collaborative Adaptive Sensing for Hazardous Weather Detection, Tracking, and Predicting,” IEEE Radio and Wireless Conference (RAWCON 2004), Atlanta, GA, September 20, 2004. (Banquet Address)

“Essential Partnerships: Solving the World’s Challenging Research Problems,” Massachusetts Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Summit on “Fueling the Pipeline for the Massachusetts Innovation Economy, Newton, MA, October 25, 2004. (Luncheon Address)

“How does an ERC Director motivate researchers to overtly contribute to ERC vs. individual project deliverables?” presentation to Engineering Research Center Directors and Deputy Directors at the 2004 NSF Annual Engineering Research Centers Meeting, Washington, DC, November 17, 2004.

“Low Cost Phased Array Research in the CASA Engineering Research Center,” briefing to the Phased Array Weather Radar Project Joint Action Group (PAWRP/JAG), Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorology, Silver Springs, MD, December 8, 2004.

“Distributed Collaborative Adaptive Sensing – A new Paradigm in Radar Design,” Raytheon Company Seminar, Sudbury, MA, April 21, 2005.

“Distributed Collaborative Adaptive Sensing: a New Observing Paradigm for Hazardous Weather Prediction and Response,” Southern Illinois University ECE Department Seminar, Carbondale, IL, May 16, 2005.

“Overview of the CASA Engineering Research Center,” Clemson University ECE Department Seminar, Clemson, SC, May 25, 2005.

“Distributed Radar Networks for Hazardous Weather Detection, Prediction, and Response,” Cider Seminar, University of Toronto Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Toronto, Canada, August 3, 2005.

“Essential Partnerships, Barrier #1, REU, and you,” Research Experiences for Undergraduates Kick-off lecture, University of Delaware, June 19, 2006, Newark, Delaware.

“An Agile Radar Test Bed for Gap-filling and Short-Term Forecasting at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, Seminar to the Canadian Meteorological Service, Dorval, Quebec, July 2005.

“Short Wavelength Technology and the Potential for Distributed Networks of Small Radar Systems,” presented at the Short Term Forecasting and Nowcasting Symposium, WSN-05, Toulouse, France, September 2005.

“CASA Update: program status and plans for deploying four radars southwest of Oklahoma City ahead of the 2006 severe storms season, “ presented to the NEXRAD Program Management Committee, September 28, 2005, Norman, OK. (via tele/videoconference)

“CASA – NOAA/National Weather Service Partnership”, presented to the National Weather Service, Silver Spring, MD, October 19, 2005.

“CASA Strategic Timeline,” Presented at CASA-OU retreat, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, November 9, 2005.

“CASA’s Graduate Educational Activities and Impacts,” presented at the NSF ERC program Annual Meeting, Panel on Broadening the impact of ERC’s on Graduate Education, November 17, 2005.

“CASA Overview and the DCAS Dilemma,” presented at the NSF/CASA/NCAR Workshop in Decision Sciences, Boulder, Colorado, 12/12/05.

“Distributed Collaborative Adaptive Sensing (DCAS) – a new paradigm for observing, understanding, predicting, and responding to atmospheric and airborne hazards,” seminar presented at McGill University, January 16, 2006, Montreal, Canada.

“CASA: Potential contributions to REFRACTT,” presented at the 2006 REFRACTT planning workshop, February 2006, Boulder, Colorado. (via tele/videoconference)

“The CASA Opportunity: knowledge, technology, dilemma – or all of the above?” seminar presented at the Disaster Research Center, University of Delaware, February 1, 2006, Newark, Delaware.

“CASA brings futuristic tracking to storm chasing,” AIAA Distinguished Lecture Seminar, March 1, 2006, Baltimore, MD.

“CASA Strategy Overview 2006,” presented to the CASA Industrial Advisory Board, March 29, 2006 (via tele/videoconference)

“CASA Update: program status and plans,” presented to the Federal Committee for Meteorological Services and Supporting Research, Joint Action Group for Joint Urban Test Beds, March 2, 2006, Silver Spring, MD.

“CASA status and R&D plan,” presented to the Joint Program Development Office Weather IPT Observations Meeting, NOAA/National Weather Service Office, March 17, 2006, Silver Spring, MD.

“CASA Overview: vision, strategy, use of test beds and plans,” seminar presented to the NOAA/ESL, March 27, 2006, Boulder, Colorado.

“Concepts for a CASA-Canada Partnership: Agile radar test bed, Gap-filling, and Short Term forcasting at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, “ presented to the Canadian Meteorological Service, McGill University, April 13, 2006, Montreal, Canada.

“CASA: engineering solutions to challenging societal problems,” Freshman Engineering Lecture, presented May 9, 2006, Amherst, MA

“Futuristic Storm Tracking and the CASA Engineering Research Center,” AIAA Distinguished Seminar Series presented May 25, 2006, St. Louis, MO.

“A glimpse of academic life,” presented at the UMass New Student’s Orientation, June 12, 2006, Amherst, MA

“CASA – phase 2,” presented at the University of Delaware, June 19, 2006, Newark, DE.

“CASA Overview,” kick-off lecture presented at the 2006 CASA Research Experiences for Teachers Workshop, July 31, 2006, Ft. Collins, CO.

(with several others) “CASA Engineering Research Center,” World Bank, Washington DC, October 5, 2006.

“Chasing Interdisciplinarity while Chasing Tornadoes: An Overview of the CASA Engineering Research Center,” Brookhaven National Laboratory, Long Island, New York, March 14, 2007.

“CASA and CLASIC,” US DOE/Atmospheric Radiation Program Annual Science Meeting, Monterey, CA, March 27, 2007.

(with Raytheon Company) “CASA Project: overview and update,” National Weather Service Office of Science and Technology, Silver Spring, MD, April 24, 2007.

“CASA Engineering Research Center – test bed update,” College of Engineering External Advisory Board briefing, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, May 4, 2007.

“NSF Engineering Research Center for CASA – Overview and Update,” Oklahoma Weather Community Seminar, Norman, OK, June 6, 2007.

(with V. Chandrasakar and D. Melendez) “NSF Engineering Research Center for CASA: Overview and Update,” Corporate Board of the National Weather Service, Norman, OK, June 7, 2007.

“CASA Brings Futuristic Tracking to Storm Chasing,” AIAA San Antonio Chapter, Banquet Address, San Antonio, TX, June 21, 2007.

“NWS CASA Meeting,” briefing to representatives from CASA IAB, ESEAB, Environment Canada, and McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, June 25, 2007.

(with Mark Russell) “Chasing Interdisciplinarity while Chasing Tornadoes – An Overview of the CASA Engineering Research Center,” Banquet Address, URSI Meeting, Montreal, Canada, August 2, 2007.

“NSF ERC for CASA: Overview and Update, “ National Research Council Committee on Mesoscale Observing Systems, Boulder, Colorado, July 23, 2007.

“CASA Update and QPE Perspectives,” briefing to CASA Industrial Advisory board interest group on hydrometeorological test beds, Amherst, MA, August 29, 2007.

“CASA Project: Engineered Systems Focus and Strategic Planning,” presentation to the leadership of the NSF ERC for Mid-Infrared Technoly (MIRTHE), Princeton, NJ, August 31, 2007.

“CASA Overview,” Lincoln Laboratory/FAA workshop, Lexington, MA, September 19, 2007.

“CASA Overview,” US Air Force briefing, Washington DC, October 21, 2007.

“CASA’s Experience,” briefing to the governing board of the John Adams Innovation Institute, Boston, MA October 22, 2007.

(with P. Drake and M. Sarcione) “NextGen Future Surveillance Plans and Technologies,” presented to JPDO Study Team on Integrated Aviation Transportation System Surveillance, Washington DC, November 7, 2007.

Student Thesis and Dissertation Committees Chaired

Ph.D. Graduates

1. Nicholas Allan (currently at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA), “Remote Sensing the Ocean Surface at Low Grazing Angles Using an X- Band Polarimetric Radar,” Doctor of Philosophy Dissertation, 1994.

2. Yuliang Wu (currently at Raytheon Co, Lexington, MA), "Fully Polarimetric Bistatic Radar Scattering Behavior of Forested Hills," Doctor of Philosophy Dissertation, 1997.

3. Elizabeth M. Twarog (currently at Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC) “Remote Sensing of Coastal Regions using an Airborne Imaging Radar,” Doctor of Philosophy Dissertation, 1998.

4. Alex Xhang (currently Associate Professor, Institute of Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems, Peking University, PRC) “Dual Polarization Remote Sensing of Coastal Plumes using Networked Radars,” Doctor of Philosophy Dissertation, 2001.

5. William Stevens (currently at USAF Air Force Research Laboratory), “Bistatic Scattering from an Inland Reservoir at X-Band,” Doctor of Philosophy Dissertation, 2004.

6. Brian Donovan (currently at BBN), “Off the Grid Radar Networks,” Doctor of Philosophy Dissertation, 2008

7. Jorge Salazar (currently Assistant Professor, University of Oklahoma), “Feasibility of Low-cost Phased Array Weather Radars,” Doctor of Philosophy Dissertation, 2012.

8. Jorge Trabal (currently at Raytheon), “Data Quality Assessment and Rainfall Estimation Using Dense Radar Networks,” Doctor of Philosophy Dissertation, 2013.

9. Rafael Medina (currently at University of Puerto Rico – Mayaguez), “Beam Steering Control System for Low Cost Phased Array Weather Radars:  Design and Calibration Techniques” Doctor of Philosophy Dissertation, 2014.

M.S. Graduates

1. Nicholas Hamawi, “An Incoherent Bistatic Radar Test Bed for Terrain Scattering Studies,” Master of Science Thesis, 1992.

2. Timothy Kearney, “A Switched Radar Calibrator for In-Scene Polarimetric Calibration,” Master of Science Thesis, 1993.

3. Ahren Hartman, “A Polarimetric Bistatic Radar Test Bed for Signal-to-Clutter Enhancement Studies,” Master of Science Thesis, 1993.

4. Eugene Boltniew, “Bistatic Radar Measurements of Tree Clutter Depolarization at S-Band,” Electrical Engineer Degree Thesis, 1994.

5. Jeffrey Barclay, “Monostatic and Bistatic Radar Cross Sections of a Helicopter Target,” Master of Science Thesis, 1994.

6. William Stevens, “High-Resolution Bistatic Radar Clutter Measurements,” Master of Science Thesis, 1994.

7. Elizabeth Twarog, “Fully Polarimetric High Resolution Low Grazing Angle Sea Clutter,” Master of Science Thesis, 1995.

8. Zhikui Ren, “Field Calibration of Fully Polarimetric Bistatic Radar Systems,” Master of Science Thesis, 1995.

9. Alex Zhang, “Bistatic Radar Scattering Cross Sections of Aircraft Targets,” Master of Science Thesis, 1998.

10. Vidhya Tharanjaran, “Reconfigurable Computing Data System for the UMASS Tornado Radar,” Master of Science Thesis, 2001.

11. Francesc Junyent, “The Design, Development, and Initial Field Deployment of an X-Band Polarimetric Doppler Weather Radar” , Master of Science Thesis, 2003.

COURSES TAUGHT:

Graduate: Radar Systems; Remote Sensing, Principles of Systems Engineering.

Undergraduate: C Programming; Introduction to Engineering Design for Freshmen; Circuit Analysis; Introduction to Logic Design; Linear Systems Analysis (Continuous); Linear Systems Analysis (Discrete); Electromagnetics; Antenna Design; Communication Systems; Introduction to EE (for non-majors); Technology Management: Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

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