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Citations
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8246
National Ranking
2735

Overview

L. Neil Frazer is affiliated with the University of Hawaii at Manoa in the United States. Their research principally spans Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant focus on Environmental Science. Frazer has contributed extensively to several subfields, including Geophysics, Ecology, Surgery, Atmospheric Science, and Earth-Surface Processes.

The scientist's work addresses various main topics, such as earthquake and tectonic studies, high-pressure geophysics and materials, environmental DNA in biodiversity studies, bacteriophages and microbial interactions, microbial community ecology and physiology, geological and geochemical analysis, and facial trauma and fracture management.

Among their recent publications are:

  • Sea-level rise exponentially increases coastal flood frequency, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Environmental DNA from multiple pathogens is elevated near active Atlantic salmon farms, 2020, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Play Fairway analysis of geothermal resources across the State of Hawai'i: 4. Updates with new groundwater chemistry, subsurface stress analysis, and focused geophysical surveys, 2020, Geothermics
  • Environmental DNA dispersal from Atlantic salmon farms, 2022, Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
  • Rheology and thermal structure of the lithosphere beneath the Hawaiian Ridge inferred from gravity data and models of plate flexure, 2020, Geophysical Journal International

Frequent coauthors involved in Frazer's work include Julie Potter, Dylan Shea, Andrew W. Bateman, Shaorong Li, and Gideon Mordecai.

Frazer has published repeatedly in several scientific venues. Notable venues with multiple publications include the Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences and the British Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. Other venues include Scientific Reports, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, and Geothermics.

Best Publications

  • Use of ray theory to calculate high-frequency radiation from earthquake sources having spatially variable rupture velocity and stress drop

    Paul Spudich;L. Neil Frazer

  • The Predictive Accuracy of Shoreline Change Rate Methods and Alongshore Beach Variation on Maui, Hawaii

    Ayesha S. Genz;Charles H. Fletcher;Robert A. Dunn;L. Neil Frazer

  • Seismic waves in stratified anisotropic media

    Gerard J. Fryer;L. Neil Frazer

  • Practical aspects of reflectivity modeling

    Subhashis Mallick;L. Neil Frazer

  • Seismic waves in stratified anisotropic media. II: Elastodynamic eigensolutions for some anisotropic systems

    Gerard J. Fryer;L. Neil Frazer

  • Reflection/transmission coefficients and azimuthal anisotropy in marine seismic studies

    Subhashis Mallick;L. Neil Frazer

  • Transformation and analysis of record sections

    Robert A. Phinney;K. Roy Chowdhury;L. Neil Frazer

  • Crustal and upper mantle structure from Sp phases

    Thomas H. Jordan;L. Neil Frazer

  • Environmental constraints on sound transmission by humpback whales

    Eduardo Mercado;L. Neil Frazer

  • Doubling of coastal erosion under rising sea level by mid-century in Hawaii

    Tiffany R. Anderson;Charles H. Fletcher;Matthew M. Barbee;L. Neil Frazer

  • Historical Shoreline Change, Southeast Oahu, Hawaii; Applying Polynomial Models to Calculate Shoreline Change Rates

    Bradley M. Romine;Charles H. Fletcher;L. Neil Frazer;Ayesha S. Genz

  • Computation of synthetic seismograms for stratified azimuthally anisotropic media

    Subhashis Mallick;L. Neil Frazer

  • Kirchhoff–Helmholtz reflection seismograms in a laterally inhomogeneous multi‐layered elastic medium – I. Theory

    L. Neil Frazer;Mrinal K. Sen

  • Periodic slow earthquakes on the flank of Kīlauea volcano, Hawaiʻi

    Benjamin A. Brooks;James H. Foster;Michael Bevis;L. Neil Frazer

  • P- and S-wave attenuation logs from monopole sonic data

    Xinhua Sun;Xiaoming Tang;C. H. (Arthur) Cheng;L. Neil Frazer

  • On a generalization of Filon's method and the computation of the oscillatory integrals of seismology

    L. Neil Frazer;Joseph F. Gettrust

  • Rapid computation of multioffset vertical seismic profile synthetic seismograms for layered media

    Subhashis Mallick;L. Neil Frazer

  • Track of a sperm whale from delays between direct and surface-reflected clicks

    Eva-Marie Nosal;L. Neil Frazer

  • Single-hydrophone localization

    L. Neil Frazer;Peter I. Pecholcs

  • Localization of marine mammals near Hawaii using an acoustic propagation model.

    Christopher O. Tiemann;Michael B. Porter;L. Neil Frazer

  • In situ acoustic and laboratory ultrasonic sound speed and attenuation measured in heterogeneous soft seabed sediments: Eel River shelf, California

    Thomas J. Gorgas;Roy H. Wilkens;Shung S. Fu;L.Neil Frazer

  • Are beach erosion rates and sea-level rise related in Hawaii?

    Bradley M. Romine;Charles H. Fletcher;Matthew M. Barbee;Tiffany R. Anderson

  • Acoustic lance: New in situ seafloor velocity profiles

    S. S. Fu;R. H. Wilkens;L. N. Frazer

  • Changes in attenuation with depth in an ocean carbonate section: Ocean Drilling Program sites 806 and 807, Ontong Java Plateau

    L. Neil Frazer;Xinhua Sun;Roy H. Wilkens

  • The theory of finite frequency body wave synthetic seismograms in inhomogeneous elastic media

    L. Neil Frazer;R. A. Phinney

Frequent Co-Authors

Charles H. Fletcher
Charles H. Fletcher University of Hawaii at Manoa
Martin Krkošek
Martin Krkošek University of Toronto
Peter D. Bromirski
Peter D. Bromirski University of California, San Diego
Mrinal K. Sen
Mrinal K. Sen The University of Texas at Austin
Roy H Wilkens
Roy H Wilkens University of Hawaiʻi Sea Grant
Mark A. Lewis
Mark A. Lewis University of Victoria
Cecily J. Wolfe
Cecily J. Wolfe United States Geological Survey
Thomas H. Jordan
Thomas H. Jordan University of Southern California
Bruce F. Houghton
Bruce F. Houghton University of Hawaii at Manoa
Kristina M. Miller
Kristina M. Miller Fisheries and Oceans Canada

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