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Geoffrey Blewitt
Professor
Nevada Geodetic Laboratory
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
- Geophysics
- Celestial mechanics
- Relativity
- Reference frames
Geodesy
- Earth's shape and its change in time
- Earth's gravity and its change in time
- Earth rotation and its change in time
Engineering
- Global Positioning System (GPS)
- Satellite orbits
- EM signal processing and propagation
- Scientific computing
- IT systems
Applications of GPS Geodesy
- global reference frames
- geodynamics
- plate tectonics
- earthquake cycle
- surface mass loading
- glacial isostatic adjustment
- sea level change
- atmospheric science
- tsunami warning systems
- precision navigation
- atomic time transfer
- search for dark matter
Professional Work Experience
1999-present, Professor, Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
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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