Frank Carsey received the B.Sc. degree with High Honors in physics from the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, in 1965, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in physics from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1967 and 1971, respectively. His degree work was in ultrasonic studies of niobium in and near the superconducting state.He has had positions with the NOAA Wave Propagation Laboratory, the University of Washington, and the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center before going to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, where he has been since 1981. At JPL he was Group Supervisor for Oceanography, 1981- 1987, and is currently Task Scientist for the Alaska SAR Facility. His professional concerns for the past 15 years have centered around measurements of sea ice and the upper ocean and lower atmosphere in dynamical contact with it. Recently, his activities have concerned interpretation and application of satellite microwave observations, especially synthetic aperature radar, or SAR, and measurements of ice type, concentration, and velocity.