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Geoffrey Blewitt
Research Professor
Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Mackay School of Earth Sciences and Engineering
University of Nevada, Reno
Business telephone: (775) 682-8778
Fax: (775) 784-1709
E-mail: gblewitt@unr.edu
Education
Ph.D. Physics, California Institute of Technology, 1986
B.Sc. (1st Class Hons) Physics, Queen Mary College, University
of London, 1981
Areas of Expertise
Physics
Parameter estimation and stochastic modeling
Geodesy
Global Positioning System (GPS) methodology
GPS applications:
- tsunami warning systems
- plate tectonics
- fault mechanics
- earthquake cycle
- Earth rotation and polar motion
- global kinematic reference frames
- Earth center of mass monitoring
- loading of lithosphere/upper mantle
- secular variation in sea level
- ground fluid withdrawal
- volcano monitoring
- tropospheric water vapor
- ionospheric total electron content
- structural movement
- precision navigation
Professional Work Experience
1999-present, Research Professor, jointly at Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology and Seismological
Laboratory, University of Nevada, Reno
1999-present, Visiting Professor, Department of Geomatics, University of Newcastle upon Tyne,
England.
1994-1999, Professor, Department of Geomatics, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, England
1985-1994, Group Supervisor, Space Geodesy and Geodynamics Systems Group, Jet Propulsion
Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
1981-1985 Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Physics, California Institute of Technology,
Pasadena
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