Roger Waxler

Principal Scientist and Research Associate Professor of Physics & Astronomy

• Staff
• Instructor

• Email:

  rwax@olemiss.edu

• Office Location:

  1097 NCPA

• Phone:

  662-915-5259

Research Interests

Atmospheric sound propagation, particularly in the nocturnal boundary layer, and the interaction of airborne sound with the soil layer

Biography

Roger Waxler is a distinguished mathematician and acoustics researcher with a diverse academic and professional background. He has served in numerous academic positions, including Research Assistant at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at E.T.H. Zurich, Visiting Professor at the University of British Columbia, and Assistant Professor roles at S.U.N.Y. Buffalo and Penn State University.

Currently, Roger is a Senior Research Scientist II at the National Center for Physical Acoustics (NCPA) and a Research Associate Professor of Physics at the University of Mississippi. At NCPA, he leads the infrasound research group, focusing on the study of low-frequency acoustic waves. His contributions to the field of mathematics and acoustics have been significant, blending theoretical insight with practical applications in infrasound research.

 

Associations & Societies

Acoustical Society of America

Publications

Tropical cyclones’ acoustic reconnaissance

Sidorovskaia, Natalia & Waxler, Roger & Mathew, Naomi & Hetzer, Claus. (2023). Tropical cyclones’ acoustic reconnaissance. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.

Blom, Philip & Waxler, Roger & Frazier, Garth. (2023). Quantification of spatial and seasonal trends in the atmosphere and construction of statistical models for infrasonic propagation. Geophysical Journal International. 

Liang, Bin & Waxler, Roger & Markowski, Paul. (2023). A lower frequency signal emitted from tornadoes based on a new mechanism. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.

Waxler, Roger & Liang, Bin & Hetzer, Claus. (2023). Infrasound propagation from a vertically extended source. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 

Waxler, Roger & Hetzer, Claus & Assink, Jelle & Blom, Philip. (2022). A two-dimensional effective sound speed parabolic equation model for infrasound propagation with ground topography. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.