Fronefield Crawford III Associate Professor Department of Physics and Astronomy Franklin & Marshall College P.O. Box 3003, Lancaster, PA 17604-3003 Office: Hackman 421 Phone: (717) 358-4499, Fax: (717) 358-4474 Email: fcrawfor@fandm.edu B.A. Astrophysics, 1994, Williams College Ph.D. Physics, 2000, MIT

Professional History

• 2011 - present: Associate Professor, Department of Astronomy, Franklin & Marshall College
• 2006 - 2011: Assistant Professor, Department of Astronomy, Franklin & Marshall College
• 2002 - 2006: Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Haverford College
• 2000 - 2002: Senior Systems Engineer, Remote Sensing Systems Integration, Lockheed Martin Corporation
• 1997 - 2000: Graduate Research Assistant, Center for Space Research, MIT
• 1994 - 1997: Graduate Research Assistant, Research Laboratory of Electronics, MIT

Research, Publications, etc.

• Scientific Publications (or see listings on ADS, astro-ph, and cs)
• Pulsars at F&M
• Student Research Projects
• Talks and Presentations and Research Related Press
• Searches for and Follow-up Studies of Southern Radio Pulsars (my Ph.D. thesis)
• Pulsar (an article for the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology)
• Research group photos: 2002 / 2003 / 2004 / Fall 2004 / 2007 / 2008 / 2009 / 2011

Teaching

In Fall 2012 I am on sabbatical and am not teaching any courses. In Spring 2013 I am slated to teach the following courses:

• AST 171: Introduction to Astrophysics - Lectures and Labs
• FND 111V: Energy Issues in Science and Society - Lectures and Workshops

I have previously taught these courses at F&M:

• AST 110: Introduction to the Solar System
• AST 120: Introduction to Stars and Galaxies
• AST 170: Survey of Astronomy
• AST 171: Introduction to Astrophysics
• AST 210: Solar System Astrophysics
• AST 240: Observational Astronomy
• AST 475: Experimental Methods in Astrophysics
• FND 111V: Energy Issues in Science and Society
• PHY 111: Fundamental Physics I
• PHY 112: Fundamental Physics II

I taught these courses at Haverford College before coming to F&M:

• ASTR 101: Astronomical Ideas
• ASTR 152: Freshman Seminar in Astrophysics
• ASTR 205: Introduction to Astrophysics I
• ASTR 313: Observational Optical Astronomy
• ASTR 322: Non-optical Astronomy
• PHYS 101: Classical and Modern Physics I
• PHYS 102: Classical and Modern Physics II
• PHYS 105: Fundamental Physics I
• PHYS 106: Fundamental Physics II
• PHYS 211: Laboratory in Electronics and Waves
• PHYS 212: Laboratory in Quantum Physics
• PHYS 308: Advanced Classical Mechanics
• PHYS 399: Senior Seminar
• PHYS 459: Teaching Laboratory Physics
• PHYS 460: Association in Teaching Basic Physics
• 8.01: Physics I (at MIT)

Interesting Sites

Current

• Selected comics: Doonesbury / Bizarro / Flash Gordon
• Columns: Krauthammer / Will / Brooks
• The Weekly Standard
• Astronomy Picture of the Day
• Twitter
• News Headlines from Google
• New Astrophysics Preprints and New Pulsar Preprints
• Route 100 Traffic and Parkes Webcams
• What's New by Bob Park

Weather

• Forecasts: Philadelphia current conditions / Philadelphia forecast
• Doppler radar: Philadelphia / Northeast animated
• Maps: US Temperatures / US Surface / US Precipitation

Astro

• Literature: ADS / ApJ / AJ / Hindawi ISRN Astronomy and Astrophysics / astro-ph
• Telescopes: Parkes / ATCA / ATNF / Arecibo / GBT / NURO
• Data: Green's SNR Catalogue / Pulsar Catalog / DM-Distance / SkyView
• F&M Beowulf bw01: Cluster Report / Cluster Loads / Cluster Queue / UPS Status
• F&M Beowulf bw02: Cluster Report / Cluster Loads / Cluster Queue / UPS Status
• Misc: Pulsars at F&M / PM Survey / AAS

Internet

• iGoogle
• Williams Students Online / MIT Alumni Services / go.haverford.edu
• Alternate homepages: MIT / WSO / CCIL / NAIC
• Yahoo mail

Miscellaneous

• Newspaper Articles
• Origin of the Crawfords
• Crawford Invitational Tennis Tournament
• Rugines Duonos Gira
• Advice and Tips on Raising Chickens
• Advice and Tips on Beekeeping
• My Appearance on Howard Stern's "Win Fred's Money"
• Internet Movie Database
• The Physics Factbook
• QR Code Generator
• Word Cloud Creator
• Jill Crawford, LCSW (designed by me)
• Fronefield Crawford, Jr., Attorney at Law (designed by me)

Pictures!

• Jill and Froney / Cameron / Sarah
• Friends / Family / Pets / Old House and Yard / Soccer
• Neighborhood Scenes at Marsh Creek Lake
• Photos from Classes
• England (July 1988)
• Pictures from Williams College (1990 to 1994)
• Graduation at Williams College (June 1994)
• Radio Astronomy Instrumentation Work (1994 to 1997)
• Vacation in Australia (June 1995)
• Martha's Vineyard (May 1996)
• Quebec City (June 1996)
• Sheep Island, Maine (August 1996)
• Observing Trip to Australia (September 1997)
• Sailing in the Bahamas (April 1998)
• Rehearsal Dinner and Wedding (September 1998)
• Honeymoon at Lake Como, Italy (September 1998)
• Thanksgiving at Chez Crawford (November 1998)
• Cayman Islands (March 1999)
• Observing Trip to Australia (July 1999)
• Southern Germany and Austria (September 1999)
• Hilton Head Island (August 2002)
• Thanksgiving at Chez Crawford (November 2002)
• AAS Conference in Seattle (January 2003)
• Crawford Invitational Tennis Tournament (May 2003)
• North and South Carolina (June 2003)
• Keck Astronomy Conference (October 2003)
• Christmas 2003 (December 2003)
• Wilmington/Cape Fear, NC (June 2004)
• July 4th in Valley Forge Park (July 2004)
• Avalon, NJ (July 2004)
• Milky Way Farm (October 2004)
• New Year's Eve at Chez Crawford (December 2004)
• San Diego (July 2005)
• Wilmington/Cape Fear, NC (June 2006)
• NURO Trip to Flagstaff, AZ (March 2007)
• St. Michaels, MD (April 2007)
• Observing Trip to Australia (February 2008)
• NURO Trip to Flagstaff, AZ (March 2008)
• Wlmington/Cape Fear, NC (July 2008)
• Ireland (July 2008)
• Thanksgiving at Chez Crawford (November 2008)
• December Activities (December 2008)
• Washington, DC (December 2008)
• Winter at Marsh Creek State Park (January 2009)
• Key West (March 2009)
• AAS Conference in Pasadena (June 2009)
• Avalon, NJ (June 2009)
• Wilmington/Cape Fear, NC (July 2009)
• NURO Trip to Flagstaff, AZ (July 2009)
• Philadelphia (August 2009)
• Washington, DC (January 2010)
• Observing Trip to Green Bank, WV (February 2010)
• San Diego (March 2010)
• Observing Trip to Australia (August 2010)
• New York City (December 2010)
• Winter at Marsh Creek State Park (January 2011)
• Fab Five Fest Conference at Arecibo, Puerto Rico (March 2011)
• Las Vegas, NV (April 2011)
• Boston, MA (May 2011)
• Israel (June 2011)
• Rock Hall, MD (August 2011)
• Washington, DC (December 2011)

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