Timothy Hugh Dixon
| Timothy Hugh Dixon | |
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| Born | Sturgeon Falls, West Nipissing, Ontario, Canada |
| 🏳️ Citizenship | Canadian |
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Timothy Hugh Dixon (born August 13, 1951) is a U.S. geoscientist based in Florida. Dixon’s research uses remote sensing and satellite and ground-based geodesy data to study Earth surface and sub-surface processes, including earthquakes and volcano deformation, coastal subsidence and flood hazard, ground water extraction, glacier motion, and mass loss of the Greenland ice sheet.
Biography
Dixon was born in Sturgeon Falls, West Nipissing, Ontario, Canada, on August 13, 1951 and received a B.Sc. degree in 1974 from Western University University of Western Ontario in Canada, and a Ph.D. in 1979 from Scripps Institution of Oceanography.[citation needed] From 1979–1992, he worked at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, where he developed techniques for mapping ocean floor bathymetry using satellite radar altimeter data. He also worked with JPL engineers to develop geophysical applications of the Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites.[citation needed] From 1992-2010, he was a Professor at the University of Miami, where he co-founded the Center for Southeastern Tropical Advanced Remote Sensing (CSTARS) [1]. Since January 2011 he has been at the University of South Florida in Tampa, where he is a Professor of Geology and Geophysics in the School of Geosciences[2] where he runs the geodesy lab.[3] Dixon has been a Distinguished Lecturer for the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (2006-2007)[citation needed] and is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU),[4] the Geological Society of America (GSA),[5] and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).[citation needed] His AAAS citation reads “for distinguished contributions to the field of satellite geodesy.” [citation needed] His AGU citation reads "For fundamental advances in the application of space-based geodesy to important tectonic problems."[6] He received a GSA “Best Paper” award in 2006, and GSA’s Woollard award for excellence in Geophysics in 2010.[7] Dixon was President of AGU’s Geodesy section from 2012-2014, and chaired the Geology and Geography section of AAAS for 2012-2013.[citation needed] He is the author of *Curbing Catastrophe*, a general audience book on natural and human-caused hazards, published by Cambridge University Press in 2017.[8]
References
- ↑ https://www.rsmas.miami.edu/research/centers/cstars/index.html
- ↑ "USF :: School of Geosciences". hennarot.forest.usf.edu. Retrieved 2018-05-04.
- ↑ "University of South Florida Geodesy Lab". labs.cas.usf.edu. Retrieved 2018-05-04.
- ↑ https://honors.agu.org/honorsfellow/1612-dixon/
- ↑ http://rock.geosociety.org/membership/fellows.asp
- ↑ https://honors.agu.org/honorsfellow/1612-dixon/
- ↑ "Geological Society of America - Honors & Awards". www.geosociety.org. Retrieved 2018-05-05.
- ↑ Dixon, Timothy H. (2016). Curbing Catastrophe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781139547345. ISBN 9781139547345. Search this book on
Google Scholar profile: Timothy Dixon https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=aqQj96AAAAAJ&hl=en
DeMets, C, TH Dixon, 1999. New kinematic models for Pacific-North America motion from 3 MA to present, I: Evidence for steady motion and biases in the NUVEL-1A model Geophysical Research Letters v.26 (13), p. 1921-1924.
Dixon, TH, 2017. Curbing Catastrophe: Natural Hazard and Risk Reduction in the Modern World, Cambridge University Press.
Dixon, TH, M Miller, F Farina, H Wang, D Johnson, 2000. Present-day motion of the Sierra Nevada block and some tectonic implications for the Basin and Range province, North American Cordillera. Tectonics, v. 19 (1), p. 1-24.
Dixon, TH, F Amelung, A Ferretti, F Novali, F Rocca, R Dokka, G Sella, 2006. Space geodesy: Subsidence and flooding in New Orleans. Nature v. 441 (7093), p.587-588.
Dixon, TH, M Naraghi, MK McNutt and SM Smith, 1983. Bathymetic prediction from SEASAT altimeter data, Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 88, p.1563-1571.
Dixon, TH, (1991) An introduction to the Global Positioning System and some geological applications, Reviews of Geophysics, v. 29, p. 249-276.
Dixon, TH, Y Jiang, R Malservisi, R McCaffrey, N Voss, M Protti, V Gonzalez, 2014. Earthquake and tsunami forecasts: Relation of slow slip events to subsequent earthquake rupture. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, v. 114, p. 17,039-17,044, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1412299111.
Mao,A., CGA Harrison, TH Dixon, 1999. Noise in GPS coordinate time series. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth v. 104 (B2), p. 2797-2816
Sella, GF, TH Dixon, A Mao, 2002. REVEL: A model for Recent plate velocities from space geodesy, Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 107, B4, doi:10.1029/2000JB000033.
Yang, Q., TH Dixon, PG Myers, J Bonin, D Chambers, MR van den Broeke, MH Ribergaard, J Mortensen, 2016. Recent increases in Arctic freshwater flux: impacts on Labrador Sea convection and Atlantic overturning circulation. Nature Communications, v. 7: 10525 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms10525
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